I'm a fan of generalities, they make communicating easy, but they come with responsibilities. I set my expectation for piece of writing based on the format. I

I'm a fan of generalities, they make communicating easy, but they come with responsibilities. I set my expectation for piece of writing based on the format. I know I won't get the full details of an issue reading someone's essay; I expect the gist. It's implicit in the format. But my responsibility is to read in between the lines and fill in the necessary details when obvious. If someone says, "Men just care about sex", I know they don't really mean it black and white. On the other hand, I expect more from a scientific journal. But if I really want to know something, I'll experiment personally. And even that has pitfalls.