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Emily 404 Not Found@emilyatlast.bsky.social |
My goodness. This article should be required reading.
"You cannot claim that your preferred definition of a term is the “real” one if other people use it differently, because vocabulary is not handed down from on high on stone tablets."
@2damntrans.bsky.social you might enjoy this?
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Richard Brooks
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So right language labels change to fit usage of the moment, I’ve tried to have this discussion & with so many people it’s so hard Take the evolution of ‘gay’ from Bright and carefree, to homosexual(insult) to homosexual pride, to useless By different groups of people, but which is ‘correct?’
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Trans philosopher Talia Betcher made much the same point.
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Ethel Weapon
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Yeah, this article captures things nicely. "Trans women are women" is an axiom, not some kind of deduction that can be refuted by pointing towards a numinous "biology" that provides some kind of implicit approbation for all the GC "oughts".
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chbarts
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This is one reason linguistic prescriptivism is wrong, both linguistically and morally: It's a way for people to try to pull the rug out from under marginalized groups by restricting language in discriminatory ways.
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Joanna 🏳️⚧️🪐
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I always think about the dispute over the word “planet” in relation to this. Are the astronomers who still think Pluto is a planet in denial of “scientific reality”? Or do they merely have a difference of opinion over how a particular conceptual category should be defined?
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Skrat Patrol
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Thank you for sharing, this is a great read
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