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THREAD ON SHIT ASSUMPTIONS: in early undergrad, I read that for a long time (I wanna say decades) condom manufacturers didn't think (straight) women cared about pleasure as much as (straight) men did, and so focused exclusively on manufacturing condoms for men's pleasure (boo).
The (or a) problem was surveys were asking both groups what their 1st concern was: women said unplanned pregnancy + men said pleasure. This doesn't mean pleasure wasn't equally important to women, it just meant they had this much scarier issue to contend with.
I still think about this a lot whenever I catch myself/others making racist/classist/etc assumptions.
e.g. a study on unemployment/precarity found "that financial hardship has more impact for ‘low-income workers’ while psychosocial loss can is harder to deal with for more financially comfortable workers"
When I would posit (and know) that working-class people miss their colleagues just as much as their wealthier counterparts - they just have a much scarier issue of losing their house to deal with first.
All of this is to say: duh / contextualised research and analysis is so important all the time.
