They should not mind 'girls' since it is gender-neutral as you rightly said.
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Replying to @Abebab @IrisVanRooij and
@manwhohasitall girls includes all men as well :p1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @maria_ndrnh @Abebab and
This reminds me. I REALLY hate "ladies" and "girls" used to refer to all men in the army. So grodies!
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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
I'm only catching up with my notifications now. I'm also, only catching up with the nuanced cultural meanings attached to these words, which they don't teach you in school, only recently, since living in an English speaking country.
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IMHO one of the first rules in professional communication is honesty in the aims. Using terms that are potentially demeaning is indicative of covert goals
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I agree with you but sometimes, esp if you come from a non-English speaking culture, it takes a lot to understand which words carry demeaning tone. I honestly thought "ladies" and "women" were interchangeable till now. But I'm learning and tankful for y'all.
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Which proves it is ultimately about what the speaker means by the words and what the hearer means by the words, not with some objective fact about any particular word.
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Oh, God, no. Of course words within a basic context have fixed (fuzzy, with deviations, but the mean is known to a good enough degree) meanings, that's how we communicate. Is this how you would defend somebody who used the n-word? Awful logic.
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One of the most interesting cases for me is the term Autism. In the past years I have used: Asperger, Autistic. Autistic Spectrum Disorder Autism Spectrum Condition Back to autistic People on the Autistic Spectrum (seems be safe, for now)
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I think you missed my point. I never claimed it's fixed 100% through time. I claimed it's fixed within a basic context and with deviation.
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If you want to know what terms to use to describe people who are #ActuallyAutistic, please check out that hashtag.
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Point being, that it changes over time and people do not necessarily agree. Also there are big difference between UK and NL (Been following the hashtag for a while)
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I never claimed meanings do not gradually or even very quickly change over time.
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