We're not supposed to use that term now eitherTrue, but isn't it sexist that we always switch to the masculine forms of the words, and never to the feminine ones?
And why is it that men wearing dresses is far less common, and more often stigmatized, than women wearing pants?
(As a former girlfriend once pointed out, I think too much!)
By the way, why is it that "skinny" people have less skin than fat people?
On the other hand, it doesn't tell you whether it would be acceptable to ask one of the "partners" out on a date!I like the ambiguous nature. Let people think what they want.
One of our software vendors had one of their senior developers go on a little vlog rant about how their product uses the terms "master" and "slave" for nodes in a cluster. He (his declared preferred personal pronoun) said that they really needed to change it to something else without the negative connotations of the master-slave relationship. As I watched it, two thoughts came immediately to mind. The first was that a master-slave relationship is only objectionable when it involves humans, and even then only most of the time -- a tip of the hat to our flourishing BDSM community, whom I would never wish to offend, and of course farmers and ranchers. The second was that I really wished they would put the effort toward fixing some of the massive defects in their product rather that worrying about inventing new things to worry about.
That could be the title of a very weighty scholarly book!
That's how they should refer to professional wrestlers!
I know right...and caucasian has 'asian' in it.
And also, a very male term, but I won't go there
As much as I like bicchy coke machine, I may just start saying "hey Stewie"
probably get this look..
Yes, but mainly at a systemic level rather than the individual word-choice level — male (and white, able-bodied, cis, straight, etc) is the assumed "default" in much of how we talk, and we define everyone else based on how they differ from that: an author is someone who writes books; an authoress was a woman who wrote books. Etc.
Yep. But also, try telling that to the Scots.
Possibly from the phrase "skin and bones", but no one is sure. It starts appearing in written form around 1600.
Hmm. Homogenized milk. Something has to be done about that to.
Yeah. Los Angeles is a boy city and Las Vegas is a girl city
Gender politics in languages other than English is a whole different thing. Spanish can at least use "x" (as in "Latinx"), but nothing like that would work in French or German, for example.
It's fitting for Vegas as she will take all your money.
And the losers that jump on board in support because it's the "cool" thing to do.
CIS-sapien.I hear you PARDNER!
Auughh! I can't keep up! Is it homosapien and straight sapien now?
I think that would apply both to the people promoting language change and to the people complaining about it. But you're right that most of us just shrug and adjust to change as it comes.
Why? Are you ‘the wife’? I use the term all the time. But then I’m ‘the husband’.
Because “the” is just “he” giggling?
Exactly right!
Oh well....we all have are places....in bright shinny places.
Exactly right!
Being "canceled" doesn't really exist outside the fevered imaginations of conservative commentators, so you can decide you have or haven't been canceled anytime you want and you'll be equally right (and wrong). I can send you a certificate if you give me your mailing address.
It absolutely does exist. Take off your rose colored glasses. I’ve lost count of the various television personalities and such that have either been canceled or silenced because their political opinions don’t align with that of the mainstream.
My realtor says it was changed because "Master" denotes the powerful male of the household, so it was essentially sexist, not racist.
Well biological men on average are stronger than biological women, sooooo..........
