Re: your post on echidiaen, and various other things: you're mistaken to continually assume that everyone is (or should be) coining things for the sake of other people, rather than just to make themselves happy, and then criticizing them because their actions don't correspond to your expectations for them. People make up words to validate themself, they post them online as a way of self-expression, and that's okay. Not everything needs to gain popularity for it to be worth creating.
(cont.) Just to clarify, I think a lot of what you write on this blog is insightful and useful, but in this particular case I think you’re treating people too harshly for the sake of your own standards, which shouldn’t be treated as universal goals.
ok so like… up top, my response was rude. i’ll own up to that. that was uncool of me.
at the same time, i think youre misunderstanding why i was unhappy kinda? i dont inherently have a problem with people coining words just for themselves. but we try to coin words for the sake of other people, and sometimes, the way people treat terminology hurts our ability to do that.
someone making a word that they vibe with more than the established term with the same meaning: sure, ok, why not.
someone making a whole info/announcement post, with a pride flag, definition and meaning breakdown that is 99% identical to another term in a format that encourages people to reblog it because of how its presented: divides people with the same experiences between two terms and makes it harder for either to gain traction or form community around them.
and maybe they don’t care about that, but we do. thats really all i was trying to say. when you release terms out into the public like that, it will have an impact on other peoples stuff. especially when you format your posts like that.
i was still too harsh in the post, youre right. i’ll do my best not to be so aggro in future, and i hope this makes it clearer why i felt like i had to say something?
~ vonnie
