This is a good take targeted at the wrong example, I think. (Though, I understand why it was the impetus for your take.) I’d argue one wants expressly identity based opinions (like the velentine one) to be filled with all the assumptions that make that opinion actually (or potentially) interesting. If valentine tried to hem and haw and be inclusive he would have provided a less interesting observation. It is then all the other articles that purport not to be expressly identity based that are the problem when they encapsulate all the identity assumptions and implicitly present them as the norm/standard/goes-without-saying-ness that are the problem.
This is a good take targeted at the wrong example, I think. (Though, I understand why it was the impetus for your take.) I’d argue one wants expressly identity based opinions (like the velentine one) to be filled with all the assumptions that make that opinion actually (or potentially) interesting. If valentine tried to hem and haw and be inclusive he would have provided a less interesting observation. It is then all the other articles that purport not to be expressly identity based that are the problem when they encapsulate all the identity assumptions and implicitly present them as the norm/standard/goes-without-saying-ness that are the problem.