It seems you are letting your (justified) anger at the situation to cloud your judgement so much so that you fail to see the irony of how similar your generalization rhetoric is to those used in environments you abhor. How is your detrimental usage of terms like &quot;frat boy&quot; and &quot;dude&quot; different from, e.g. people who observe a few women who are not interested&#x2F;good at coding and declare &quot;Women can&#x27;t code&quot;? Or when someone declares &quot;Racial Persecution Really Isn&#x27;t The Problem In Baltimore, it&#x27;s &quot;Personal Behavior&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediamatters.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;bill-oreilly-racial-persecution-really-isnt-the&#x2F;203457" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediamatters.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;bill-oreilly-racial...</a>)?<p>I came across poignant reminder of this irony while catching up with news about university protests over the weekend: After being intimidated and physically assaulted by protesters while trying to take photos in a public space in Missouri U., the journalism student Tim Tai said &quot;He was in a similar situation when covering last year&#x27;s protests in Ferguson, ... — except &#x27;it was the police doing it then.&#x27;&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;nation&#x2F;la-na-missouri-protest-camp-20151109-story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;nation&#x2F;la-na-missouri-protest-camp-20...</a>)<p>We should not appropriate the tactics of those we oppose.