This is actually so prevalent I've heard people say "minorities, like women" in contexts where the term "minority" is definitely not used in a relative sense (i

This is actually so prevalent I've heard people say "minorities, like women" in contexts where the term "minority" is definitely not used in a relative sense (i.e. they were really referring to a group that represents roughly half the population as a "minority"). It carries a lot of political baggage.