essentialism

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Strategic anti-essentialism is defined as the calculated use of a cultural form, outside of your own, to define yourself or your group.

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  1. noun The metaphysical theory that the essential properties of an object can be distinguished from those that are accidental to it.

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  • But such 'essentialism' is deeply un-evolutionary. —  Darwiniana
  • Dawkins protests against 'essentialism', but those protests are in vein, no matter that the issue is hopelessly confused. —  Darwiniana
  • The human mind is prone to essentialism - the intuition that living things house some hidden substance that gives them their form and determines their powers. —  Privacy Digest - News that can impact your privacy.
  • Feministe and Hoyden are principled enough to not use right-wing talking points (gender essentialism, women trying to have it all despite large family and disabled son, teen pregnancy = shameful), just because the woman concerned is on the other side of politics. —  Larvatus Prodeo
  • Sometimes called "organic essentialism," it's the kind of work that Welsh designer —  Fast Company
 

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