Thesauruses make me angry. :(
same tbh...
if you mean that people should probably find different words if the ones they use aren't acceptable any more, then yeah, of course they should. it's debatable whether or not we've reached that point yet, but we are definitely heading in the direction of at least having "they/them/their" being acceptable as gender neutral pronouns. actually that's already the case in casual conversation because it's really easy and useful to have available, not even just because of trans topics.
i was just saying that people don't easily change their emotive understanding of language to be
more prohibitive, not just the people who are stubborn, but also the people who just never used the language in malice, they just used it because those were the words they knew and they never had to think about it.
It's like the elderly calling black people mondays.
yeah it's defo the same kind of thing, tho monday has probably always been understood in a derogatory way. it's even worse when you have to think about literally any english word with "man" in it. it'd be a hard push to actually get people to have a problem with that. language tends to evolve toward simplicity, so i wouldn't be surprised if some of these tweaks did actually become more standard if they're easier to say, but otherwise, it's probably going to be something reserved for professional and formal environments.
