For all the agreed upon wisdom in experiences/writing/etc, what really lacks are visuals. A picture is worth a 1000 words. I present one concept in such a form and thus that's 1000 words less that needs to be said.
A generalization is:
(1) the derivation of a general statement from a particular one, formally by prefixing a quantifier and replacing a subject term by a bound variable
(2) a proposition asserting something to be true either of all members of a certain class or of an indefinite part of that class
(3) "It is a foundational element of logic and human reasoning."
Now, depending on how 'general' you speak of people, the more it holds true. As level of generalization increases, the % of people it applies to increases. This relationship can be graphically represented - I present what I have personally-constructed - "The Generalization Curve".
Here I have made point of 2 contradictory movements - one based in rational reality (RedPill) and one based in fallacious fantasy (Feminism) - and their corresponding goals in language.
Redpill wants to be specific enough to apply to 50% of people and derive meaning at that level. It discusses the sexual strategy and gender differences of men/women. The 5% margin of error accounts for the natural outliers and for the gender disparity/human sex ratio.
Feminism wants to apply to everyone and then some. They talk about people so general that it becomes basically meaningless and fails to grasp the underlying gender differences (for a gender movement). Not only is there that ignorance of reality, but then they want to cover people that don't even exist. These nanotransexual pansexual dual-genitalia fucking mutants that only exist in fiction. Yet feminists want to include them in the same consideration as everyone else. What the fuck. I failed to include the feminism margin of error because it is too big to show (and only appears below their ridiculous goal in language).
For anyone wondering, the curve is a logistic function. Why? When at no generality (ie: talking about 1 person in the world), being a little more general still applies to basically to that one person. At the very other end, once you are so general, more generality will not cause your statements to apply to that one exception.
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