There are a few theories knocking around as to why this might be: Arnold Zwicky, in his camply titled 1994 paper Two Lavender Issues for Linguists, suggests that: "For many lesbians, what is most important is identification with the community of women – while for many gay men, what is most important is distancing themselves from straight men".
"In the Interests of Others" identifies the organizational and institutional conditions that shape beliefs and actions to promote an expanded "community of fate," that is identification with distant others you may never meet but with whom you come to realize your fate is intertwined and on whose behalf you are willing to take costly actions.
But within a few years, the quick assimilation of minimalist art into the mainstream art-market and it's identification with the corporations that eagerly purchase and publicly install it, Minimalism, like Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art before it, become one of the darling aesthetics and art commodities of the affluent and powerful.
Lachaise's "Montagne" (1934 35) and Moore's reclining nudes of the '30s and '40s are identifications with earth, growth, vital rhythm, and silent power.
It is not the thoughts that are the problem, it is our identification with them that creates stress and anxiety.
So successful was his identification with the director that Léaud went on to make three more films about the same character as he aged.
It's an identification with a particular player at a particular time, and the person who's going to remember it most is the player".
"It's not just about playing for a good team or the contract but it's the identification with the city, the fans.
Rather, it's our identification with an America that, for all its serious differences with our own, shares our growing anxiety about the prospect of cataclysmic change.
Both of them said that, among their friends and fellow-workers, there seemed to be little identification with the victims of the terrorist attacks.
