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[–]HelloMomo 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the term "coming out as X" is a runaway train. Concept creep is a natural part of linguistics. Offensive/flippant or not, I simply don't think there's any way to put that one back in the bottle again.

That being said, I don't think that using the same phase for both things necessarily implies thinking the two things are actually equivalent. If it does now, I think that will become less true over time, as the phrase gets stale and it's connotations change.