I've written off a lot of dictionaries that have gone woke. Merriam-Webster was never on my radar anyway since it's a dictionary of American English, but now I have even less of a reason to consult it. Dictionary.com was the same; they removed all references to 'homosexual' across the website in favour of 'gay sexual orientation', 'gay man', or 'gay woman'.

I get quite angry when people tinker with dictionaries in this way, because it betrays a lack of understanding of what a dictionary is and how it is supposed to work. It's disappointing that the lexicographers (among other groups, of course) who should know better are bowing to activist pressure. Language changes from the bottom up, and a dictionary is supposed to document that. People say 'literally' when they actually mean 'figuratively', so it's right that dictionaries include the definition 'figuratively', however ridiculous the purists may find that.

Dictionaries are not authorities who hand down proclamations on how language should be used, despite public misconception. English, in its wisdom, does not have a language academy.