"I don't have a maid, I hire a cleaning service Saying 'maid' implies it's a gendered position forced on women in a stratified class system where doing domestic tasks has become her whole social role" BUT IT IS
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This is sort of the essence of George Carlin's opposition to "political correctness", and it's simultaneously quite sensible and easily warped into conventional hierarchical thinking
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I've always hated that bit because it's anti-intellectual. You're generous to say it can be interpreted as a distancing using syllable count, but it wasn't politicians that were making new words it was scientists who were gaining a better understanding of PTSD.
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It's ironic that in the UK at least, saying "au pair" is regarded as an upper class term, when term itself is an attempt to phrase it as "my fellow human, I'm not better than them"
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