I don't know how to explain to someone how not to generalize if they know and understand what a generalization is. Knowing the meaning of the thing should be a spring board to help avoid doing the thing. I can't fix a sentence where I don't agree with the premise.

This post is about etymology and the nature of masculinity and feminity as concepts, the subtext being that they are arbitrary.

My point was that they aren't two sides of a sliding scale.