english just isn't a language where you can easily lay down prescriptivist stuff even when the 10 different definitions are confusing
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and a thing i noticed when i got the huge fucking callout post a month ago was people getting super het up about that
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a part of what i did was say "so people say 'terf' a lot to just mean 'transphobic feminist' and not 'radfem' and that's not what i mean"
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and people were really focused on the idea that there could even be multiple definitions, because using it on non-radfems was Wrong
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and like, children. people are using that differently. that might be wrong or Wrong but it does mean that clarifying is necessary
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anyway there are ways to scale back problematic language to cause less harm that i think are worth doing
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especially because a lot of the -ist language is just laziness and you can be clearer by avoiding it anyway
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but the -phobe thing just creates a specialized jargon version of a word that doesn't mean anything different
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it's never gonna be big enough to change the language on a bigger scale and so just puts another barrier between SJ language and layman
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we have SO MUCH of that, especially lately, that coming up with new ones for reasons that aren't that great is just a waste of time
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jargon for its own sake is an excellent way for a subculture to degrade its legibility to the mainstream, which is important for subcultures
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but if you don't wanna be a subculture, you want to alter the mainstream, well
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