#language changes

[bundlofcigars]

D'you reckon the fae would be unstoppable if they found out the thing that mums do to get you to do things. Like I'll be sitting on the couch and the dishes aren't done, then my mum comes and says "thanks for doing the dishes" the I go do the dishes. Like if they acknowledge a debt for something that hasn't happened yet, technically aren't you in their debt BC you haven't performed the service you have been explicitly thanked for? Idk if this makes sense but ye

[webbydoo]

You know what I can’t stand? The “bi only means two” people!! Who apparently I’m just finding out my fiancé is!! I mean, it’s not a deal breaker cause he has so many good qualities, but cmon!! Bisexuality for such a long time has meant loving two or more genders, and he has the gall to come in here like “I’m bisexual but I also love nonbinary people.” I mean, being a stickler for language is one thing, but you also should keep track of how language changes!! That’s what language does, and that’s what it was always meant to do!! It just felt sorta weird when he was trying to explain how he felt about his identity to me, and then he dropped that in there. It felt like “ I see bisexual as meaning only 2, but you get your own special category over here.”

[metafucked]

Isogender Is not trans in denial!! Someone may be an identity that still aligns heavily with their agab! So they don't feel like part of the trans community! But they don't have to identify as cis because their identity isn't fully the same as their agab.

My sister is enby. They are afab and use they/she pronouns. As you can tell, they are still heavily fem-aligned. They feel that them being enby doesn't take away their identity as an afab but also doesn't make them a woman. They don't use this label but that's an example of why someone might.

There are lots of labels for systems who have strange experiences with being trans! This is a label some of our transfem alters are interested in. We are afab and masc-transitioning enby. So our body will not be cis to them ever either. But they were still formed in an afab body so using trans doesn't feel quite right to them. Boom! (used for reference: instagram account nocontext_inclus and lgbt-pride.fandom.com ).

I believe this flag was coined by @beyond-mogai-pride-flags and from top to bottom, the colours represent; masc, fem, mix of both, and the gradient represents a strong-to-weak attachment to gender, from top to bottom. (Source: lgbtqia.wiki and mogai.miraheze.org ).

[booksdogsmagicandmore]

Saying “people with uteruses” is NOT erasing women any more than saying “all humans are created equal” is erasing men.

[vintage-tech]

There’s a term for “tired” that you don’t hear much anymore... wonder why?

1930 advertisement for Alka-Seltzer from a book of household hints.

[shiftyarchfey]

I‘m gonna scream, there is a protest against the inclusion of non-gendering in German (aka the _ or * as an indication, like Lehrer_Innen (for teachers) and their reasoning is that it „destroys the language“.

Nah bro, you‘re just a dick

[thisisbiscuit-blog]

A NOTE ON THE 'APPROPRIATION' OF THE BUTCH/FEMME DICHOTOMY

The word ‘lesbian’ has only referred to women who are EXCLUSIVELY homosexual since the latter half of the last century.

The butch/femme binary has existed way, WAY longer than that.

So can bisexual women 'appropriate’ butch and femme? No, you can’t appropriate what you were part of creating.

[the-bunnybot]

i also especially hate when others use those terms because it feels like if youre forcing deferential language on even uh, us, then we should []t probably keep up with da langauge changes and that just gives us more mental gymnastics maybe that should be better gauged for general audiences.p