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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Activist lexicography really must stop.

Very few people use the term 'homosexual' to cause offence any more. It's taken on a fairly neutral, clinical meaning to me (and others here too, I'm guessing). When one considers the litany of genuinely offensive homophobic words that exist ('dyke' for instance, is not listed on dictionary.com), it seems silly to add nonsense like this.

It's worth nothing, however, that they haven't changed the definitions of 'woman' or 'lesbian' to their woke translations, so we should perhaps temper our outrage somewhat.

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I like to use "homosexual" now that the TQ+ crowd have taken and or destroyed the meaning of every other word that used to be used to describe actual gay people.