I think we shouldn’t twist narratives to argue against twisting narratives.
Not for lack of trying. The baker in question has been beset with over‐the‐top cake requests, and there have been several lawsuits against him since the famous Supreme Court ruling. In fact, in January one succeeded in having the baker fined for refusing to bake a transgender‐themed cake, and survived appeal. So Masterpiece Cakeshop may yet be sued into the ground.
https://www.newsweek.com/colorado-baker-protagonist-satan-di...
Critique is an exercise of free speech.
JK Rowling is rich af.
Citation still needed.
Her life sure was ruined by that mob though. Such a shame she's poor now and no one is buying her new game.
Do you have an example of this:
1.) Actually happening
2.) Happening because of only speech
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/sussex-profess...
Read up on what happened to Stock, and what she goes through when trying to speak in public nowadays, and you'll see my description is factual.
(Also, I don’t personally agree with “chest feeding” since breasts don’t necessarily have anything to do with gender, men can have breasts. But like, if someone else wants to call their own child feeding activity chest feeding, what do I care? Also, I’m not feeding any kids witth mammary glands so I don’t really know if I even get to be an arbiter of sane/insane terminology to refer to those activities.)
The benefit of changing the terms by which we express our fixation on race is that the old terms were largely associated with hateful speech, and the hope is that the new term might be less inflammatory. If you actually feel comfortable using someone's race as an adjective when referring to them, regardless of what form that adjective takes. I would suggest that you consider that more thoughtfully.
in the case if removing the word woman from the lexicon, the people who are being appeased have a problem with whether or not they get/have to be identified as women. Not that woman is a hateful word, but that you might exclude someone from the category.
This is different. It is true that arbitrary exclusion from categories is occasionally hateful, but it is not the case that people have been using breast feeding as a slur, and trying to retcon that to be so is obviously degrading to women who have not used it vitriolically, and do not consider it hate speech.
In good faith, can you really not imagine the difference between telling someone not to use the word chinaman to refer to someone who doesnt want to be called a chinaman, and telling them not to refer to thenselves as a woman, because someone else doesn't want you to?
I think you might be conflating “chest feeding” with womanhood, but I’ve never seen the case where someone was not allowed to refer to themselves as a woman and/or not allowed to refer to using one’s own lactation to feed a child as breast feeding either. Can you point to, I dunno, pregnancy tracker blogs or pregnancy communities or something where this is happening? Maybe a spokesperson for a hospital requesting patients no longer refer to their bodies with the above? I simply struggle to believe you that this occurs to any significant degree in the relevant community.
If you are commenting in a thread about the Rowling controversy, it is dishonest to say that you do not participate in the part of the internet in which the word woman is considered a slur, when used to refer exclusively to those who have predominantly female anatomy. The people who get pregnant and menstruate, are exclusively in this category. And arguing that this is not what woman means "anymore" is equivalent to asserting that it is hateful to use it.
The ongoing linguistic castration is an assertion that the biological reality of sex is a immoral thing to take part in, because it is traumatic to those who do not wish to. However, note that among the consequences of the biological reality of sex is the notion of sexual attraction. Is it hate speech to assert that you are attracted only to women? What if you are a woman?
This is all weird and still doesn’t give a real, rational rubric as to insane or sane progressive language. Lgbtq doesn’t mean bi is a slur lol