One of the responses I get frequently (upon criticising any widespread practice really) is “you're generalising”. Because apparently, unless your criticism applies equally and uniformly to every single human being who has ever walked the Earth, your argument is not worth any attention.

This is a cowdung response of course, and it is usually offered by people who imagine themselves as exceptions to the rule. What they are basically saying is:

“Your criticism of this widespread problem does not apply to me and therefore cannot possibly apply to anyone at all. LOL!!!11”

Basically the kind of person who says things like “not all men” or “not all science students” or “not all upper-caste people” or “not all White people or “not all (insert privileged/powerful group name here)”.