re: #149 windsagio

Wow, a Windsagio and Steve double! Nifty.

See, I actually mean what I’m saying. It’s an interesting point about language; language really does reflect the dominant hiearachy in our society. Language really is ableist, sexist, racist, etc. etc. etc. It’s built right into it. It’s part of the machinery. You’re not going to be able to weed it out. The only way that it will disappear is through people actually changing their attitudes; that will change language, eventually. one way to do this is to call people out on outright sexist or racist bullshit, but it is not helpful to point out the basic genderdness of language, or the light/dark terminology we use, or any of the other inbuilt things.

You may find this boring or uninteresting. But I think it’s really interesting to talk about. I’m fully trying to have an actual conversation with Sarah. I don’t understand why you think you need to play internet psychologist and claim to understand my motives in posting.