manuallybreathing comments on TIL about V-Coding the systemic rape of trans women in US prisons to try to “calm” violent men.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I agree with you and you are correct but this is linguistic prescriptivism, which is one of the things the what is a woman crowd cling to

but the other people using third wold country to mean allows sex abuse makes my skin crawl

Examine your preconceived ideas, before they examine you

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[–] dom@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

I did not mean third world to mean that, but rather in the colloquial sense of how much a country takes care of its people.

Understood that so many on this platform strictly care about historical definitions and prescriptive language policing though

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[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

Being more concerned with the words used than the intended meaning is an internetism that harms us all. I'm guilty of this too..

It's tricky though, because words have meaning- and that meaning really depends on context. Not just the context in which it's spoken, but also the context is the one speaking it. And often people online who think they're arguing are really just misunderstanding each other's definitions.

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[–] dom@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

You're absolutely right. In this instance I mistakenly thought it was obvious for most that I did not mean im the strict literal definition. Oh well, no big deal

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