 Sally Haslanger (2011) offers a fascinating analysis of generics that concern social kinds, for example “women are submissive” (see also McConnell-Ginet 2012 and Leslie 2014 for related discussion). It may be a fact that, given social circumstances, the majority of women defer to men on important decisions and life choices. With some complications (as noted above), this sort of high prevalence often suffices for a generic to count as true (e.g., Prasada and Dillingham 2006, 2009). Haslanger poses the question: even if we are in the circumstances that would plausibly render the generic true, might there still be something objectionable about uttering the generic? She argues that indeed there is, if the generic makes reference to an essentialized social kind and thereby perpetuates various forms of oppression. Generics, Haslanger argues, suggest that the property is grounded in the nature of the kind, and so an utterance of “women are submissive” invites the interpretation that it lies in the very nature of women to be submissive—rather than their submissiveness coming about as the result of extrinsic, accidental, and changeable social circumstances.