i hate the word "discipline" and how abusers have twisted it to mean something completely different.
discipline originally meant to learn / teach. as in what teachers do in school. they teach you. they're disciplining you on whatever subject they're teaching. then abusers began abusing and calling it discipline, and now the word is strongly associated with punishment.
the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, with punishment or other undesired consequences for those failing to comply.
train (someone) to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience. (google definitions)
this is not what discipline is.
not in the fucking slightest.
abusers have ruined this word. it's genuinely lost its meaning. they say it to sound professional when they're recontextualizing the word to fit THEIR standards. bitches.
discipline (n.)
c. 1200, "penitential chastisement; punishment for the sake of correction," from Old French descepline "discipline, physical punishment; teaching; suffering; martyrdom" (11c., Modern French discipline) and directly from Latin disciplina "instruction given, teaching, learning, knowledge," also "object of instruction, knowledge, science, military discipline," from discipulus "pupil, student, follower" (see disciple (n.)).
source: etymonline