The risk, which the thought leader may or may not acknowledge, is that you change the nature of the problem by that act of zooming. By framing it as a problem for their daughter, you shrink the issue. “There’s this problem where people don’t generalize beyond their daughter, because their daughter is different from other girls,” Cuddy said. “They call it subtyping.” It is the age-old phenomenon of the racist who says, “My black friend is different.”
