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[–]circlingmyownvoid2 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (8 children)

It’s an insult to trans women. A loaded term and a purposeful attack aimed to hurt them. It’s a willful act to hurt someone.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

It’s only loaded to sexist people who believe sex has psychological traits.

Who cares if sexist thinkers get offended tbh.

[–]circlingmyownvoid2 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

If you don’t care that someone is heinously offended by something you call them when neutral language is available then you are kind of a jerk, tbh.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Sexists are the jerks here. We’re using neutral language. Choosing to believe something other than the definition of the word is the problem of the believer.

If I decide that the word taco actually means foreskin, other people don’t have to stop using the word taco’s refer to a delicious meal.

If you decide the word man actually means ‘literally worse than hitler’ other people do not have to stop using the word man to say adult human male.

Your subjective interpretation has never and will never define words for us. You do not have the authority to dictate language to other speakers.

[–]circlingmyownvoid2 1 insightful - 7 fun1 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

Choosing to believe something other than the definition of the word is the problem of the believer.

(Insert stock evolving definitions and living language conversation you will ignore)

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Because a small group of men saying the definitions of man and woman have changed is radically different to a word like awesome becoming colloquially used to mean good.

Trying to force language to be more sexist is just..wildly silly and extremely detrimental.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Lmao masks isn’t even correct about the word “awesome”. The meaning never changed and it is being used properly to this day. The scope of what we find “awesome” may have expanded, but the meaning of the word has never changed.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

What a surprise, masks making shit up.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s literally not.

It literally just means adult male human and your insistence that it doesn’t is just going to prove my point over and over and over again.