LGB ErasureGrammarly has partnered with GLADD to suggest not using the word "homosexual" in users writing because it is offensive.

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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don’t know what Grammarly is, and I’m never going to use them anyway. The word homosexual isn’t offensive. All it does is describes a person who is exclusively same sex attracted. If you are offended by that word, then seek help. But it makes sense why organisations like GLAAD want to erase that word from the English language, because that word illustrates the fact that gay men and lesbians are only attracted to males and females respectively. And obviously because GLAAD has stabbed us in the back in favour of Big Pharma, gender ideologues and the mentally ill.

Call me a homosexual, because I am one. Just don’t call me queer, because I’m not queer.

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I wish a video of a man reading this statement would pop up FIRST every time one of those annoying Grammarly ads does on Youtube!

Because a whole generation was raised on text messages, there are now millions of native English speakers who write like struggling ESL students.

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One of the best things about modern smartphones is that they have full qwerty virtual keyboards so that there is no excuse for using text speech. In the mid-2000s and earlier, phones only had 21 buttons and you had to hit the 3 button three times to type the letter 'F'. And some carriers had character limits for text messages, so of course a lot of people used text speech. But by 2009 most people could afford phones with full keyboards, whether virtual or physical, so there’s no excuse. But even back in 2005, when I got my first phone, which was basic, I still used proper English when texting, and my parents told me not to use text speech when texting my younger sister so she wouldn’t get confused after she got her first phone.