essentialist

• Indeed it could have done with being rather more hastily rendered: much of it (clogging its heart with the cholesterol of earnestness) is a series of leaden sermons about masculinity, pornography, pedophilia and the relationship between the genders: clearly very long-pondered if essentialist and wrongheaded. —  The Valve
• This article argues that the time has come to shift the lens through which we view domestic violence law and policy from dominance feminism to anti-essentialist feminism, allowing us to see how problematic mandatory policies are and helping us to craft domestic violence law and policy that honors the goals and priorities of women who have been battered. —  Legal Theory Blog
• The development of thought since Aristotle, could, I think, be summed up by saying that every discipline, as long as it used the Aristotelian method of definition, has remained arrested in a state of empty verbiage and barren scholasticism, and that the degree to which the various sciences have been able to make any progress depended on the degree to which they have been able to get rid of this essentialist method. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• My first wish regarding gender equity is for all women to cross the barriers that confine them to stereotypical roles and essentialist thinking. —  University of Toronto -- News@UofT
• The category is now under fire as essentialist, provincially western, imbricated in colonial projects and the like. —  An und für sich

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