People are very bad at understanding the difference between "should do" and "would benefit from doing".
hmm, so let's think of examples "heteronormative" to mean implies "don't be gay", pretty prescriptive no?
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In general prescriptive is a subset of normative, and compound terms often acquire significantly more specific meanings.
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being normative about language semantics never works out. Saying words are strict subsets of others doesn't fully make sense.
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that's literally not how our brains compute semantics. Your temporal lobe is not set theoretic.
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(also heteronormative is often used to cover a lot of more vague things as well as a specific prescription against being gay)
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*"to me", not "to mean"
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