Your straw-man example is complete B.S. and you know it and I’m going to call you out it because it’s transparently exaggerated. The art of writing is to include all of the words necessary to communicate an idea and intent and no more. It takes no more than a few words to clarify what subgroup of a larger group someone is speaking of it doesn’t take paragraphs and language gymnastics to do that.

People, anyone, who refuses to clarify the target of their offense inside of a group of people deserves to be called out on it by that group. Not doing so is either intentional to illicit that exact response or lazy writing.

Saying hateful things about a group and then backpedaling to then claim that you weren’t talking about everyone in a group is an old trick used by every hate group that has ever existed from MAGA to the KKK. It’s just a different version of “I was only joking.” Writers that take this approach should know the great traditions they are following.

There is absolutely no reason why a person writing about women’s issues should be held to any less of a standard than a MAGA screaming incel. You put it on the page how you put it on the page. You have absolute free choice of the words you use and should be held responsible for every single one of them in the entirety of what you write. If you say “dogs are dangerous”, you said “dogs are dangerous”. You didn’t say “rabid Chihuahuas are dangerous” So either mean what you say or say what you mean. You can’t have it both ways.

Glossing over the use of hateful language toward broad swaths of people by then blaming that group for being offended instead of blaming the person who said it is what bigots do.

So maybe instead of worrying about the people who have to constantly remind writers “not all men” maybe you should focus more on the writers that are just being lazy with their writing.

So next time you mean to say asshole men that take advantage of women, say that, if you mean pathetic men that simp for women, say that, if you mean the good ol boys club that hold women back, say that, if you mean thugs that abuse women say that. See there are so many better ways to talk about these men. Not only is it more specific it’s just better writing.

Because here is the thing, we are at the point where everyone that isn’t an idiot already knows that when someone just writes “men” they are just trolling for exactly the response “not all men”

But being a troll does not make your words resonate. No one really listens to trolls.