[ SECRET POST #6184 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6184 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm talking about people appropriating terms from a community and, making those terms about them instead, and diluting their meaning in the process.

A word doesn't become meaningless just because someone declares that it is. It becomes meaningless when its common usage becomes so broad that it no longer has a cogent definition. Language is alive, and dynamic; none of it is set in stone, and if enough people decide to use a word "incorrectly," then the incorrect usage eventually becomes the correct one.

Was it you who said that it's easier to reclaim a word when it doesn't get lost in the first place? Well, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about maintaining a strict boundary around these words so that they retain their current meaning, and so that they continue to belong to the communities they currently describe.

[(Anonymous)]

A strict boundary isn't policing who can use the term. That way lies genital checks. A strict boundary is understanding when someone says something patently absurd because you understand the definition. I don't care how many people say that fascism is democracy, it doesn't make it true. It doesn't make democracy become meaningless. Language is alive and dynamic and sometimes words can take on new meanings, but they have to take on new meanings. Asexual still means without sexual attraction. Just because some aphobes are trying to use it to erase the ace community doesn't mean the word has changed.

And no one should just roll over and let them.

After seeing a guy describe himself as aromantic and asexual while talking about how deeply in love he was with his wife and how hot he found his girlfriends, I'm...inclined to agree with AYRT

And THAT. That is rolling over and letting them.