men hugging is perceived as behaviourally gay by homophobes in the West
that's linguistic prescription if you think others will/should follow suit tho... I just don't think that's how language works
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also what do you mean by predates?
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As in I think colloquial use of both "normative" and "prescriptive" mostly come out of academic usage, rather than other way around
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