“The meaning of words naturally changes over time. I perceive that "trans women are women" is (on one level) an attempt to assert a new and modified definition of the English word "woman"; they are trying to change the (socially constructed) boundaries of the categories described by those words. “
“The meaning of words naturally changes over time. I perceive that "trans women are women" is (on one level) an attempt to assert a new and modified definition of the English word "woman"; they are trying to change the (socially constructed) boundaries of the categories described by those words. “
We’ve reached a point where every time some idiot uses a word mistakenly we have to endure some Smile horseshit about “language evolves.” The word "unique," for example, is supposed to mean “singular,” but now it’s a synonym for “distinctive.” You hear people say "very unique" which sounds so amazingly wrong, since the correct meaning is an either-or, and has no degrees like "very."
This isn’t evolution. This is error. There are such things as errors, and we are too tolerant of them.
The redefinition of the sexes is as erroneous as any could be, driven by no expansion of freedom, and harmful in every way.
(awaiting the inevitable and turbo-charged tedium of "who gets to decide")
Yes, words do change. Any word for odor comes to have negative connotations; Shakespeare actually wrote
𝐴 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡
because back then "stink" was a pleasantry. "Smell" is already suspect and even "aroma" is getting it.
But changes should be motivated, just look how much trouble the altered meaning of the Second Amendment has put us into. "Well-regulated militia" now means "any retard who can afford a gun."
My favorite example of a motivated redefinition: the strong nuclear force. It was once believed that atomic nuclei, with positive charges unbalanced by negative ones, should fly apart from electrostatic repulsion, but they don't. The SNF was supposed to be what held them together. Now we know they exchange pions to hold together, but the term remains and now Strong Nuclear Force (more properly called chromodynamics) is the force inside protons and neutrons, which are another kind of "atom" in their own right. And very, very weird.
That change was motivated. Referring to men dressing as women and saying they 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 women is not motivated. It's illness.
“The meaning of words naturally changes over time. I perceive that "trans women are women" is (on one level) an attempt to assert a new and modified definition of the English word "woman"; they are trying to change the (socially constructed) boundaries of the categories described by those words. “
We’ve reached a point where every time some idiot uses a word mistakenly we have to endure some Smile horseshit about “language evolves.” The word "unique," for example, is supposed to mean “singular,” but now it’s a synonym for “distinctive.” You hear people say "very unique" which sounds so amazingly wrong, since the correct meaning is an either-or, and has no degrees like "very."
This isn’t evolution. This is error. There are such things as errors, and we are too tolerant of them.
The redefinition of the sexes is as erroneous as any could be, driven by no expansion of freedom, and harmful in every way.
(awaiting the inevitable and turbo-charged tedium of "who gets to decide")
Yes, words do change. Any word for odor comes to have negative connotations; Shakespeare actually wrote
𝐴 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡
because back then "stink" was a pleasantry. "Smell" is already suspect and even "aroma" is getting it.
But changes should be motivated, just look how much trouble the altered meaning of the Second Amendment has put us into. "Well-regulated militia" now means "any retard who can afford a gun."
My favorite example of a motivated redefinition: the strong nuclear force. It was once believed that atomic nuclei, with positive charges unbalanced by negative ones, should fly apart from electrostatic repulsion, but they don't. The SNF was supposed to be what held them together. Now we know they exchange pions to hold together, but the term remains and now Strong Nuclear Force (more properly called chromodynamics) is the force inside protons and neutrons, which are another kind of "atom" in their own right. And very, very weird.
That change was motivated. Referring to men dressing as women and saying they 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 women is not motivated. It's illness.