It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    There are many problems and many solutions. We don’t need to focus on one problem and pick only one solution.

    My entire point here was that there is concern that industry jargon can be accidentally exclusionary to some demographics, interest and research on it isn’t new, and the effect is usually a “death by a thousand cuts” type thing, like migroaggressions are.

    I didn’t specialize in this, so my knowledge on it is from one part of one class I took like 15 years ago, but I can absolutely see how it could matter.

    People aren’t rational and society doesn’t raise us rationally. We can be perfectly ok with something in one context but not ok with it in another context. We can be ok with one thing, but not ok with another similar thing.

    I agree there are deeper societal issues about how we raise boys and the incentives/traumas we put on kids. That doesn’t mean we cant pick off this low hanging fruit at no cost.
    It’s important to meet people where they are, not where we think they should be.