Now that I'm sixty years old, I've lived through lots of change, and I've seen the "right" words for things change over and over again.
At not quite forty, I've seen this too. On the other hand, I'm not aware of any cases of people having power stripped away or other tangible consequences for a transgression as minor as using the "wrong" words for things, assuming that their intentions are otherwise good and sincere.
I don't particularly enjoy having my language corrected when my intentions were good, but there's a big difference between hearing "hey you shouldn't say that" and having the words[1] you use be the basis for rejecting a job application, or even an application to serve as a panelist at Arisia.
If there *are* cases of this happening, I'm interested to hear about them.
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[1] EDIT: what I really mean is "the vocabulary you use". "Words" is a broader category. There are also clear cases where vocabulary is intentionally selected as a dog-whistle, which I think is a different thing.
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Date: 2019-01-02 04:06 pm (UTC)Now that I'm sixty years old, I've lived through lots of change, and I've seen the "right" words for things change over and over again.
At not quite forty, I've seen this too. On the other hand, I'm not aware of any cases of people having power stripped away or other tangible consequences for a transgression as minor as using the "wrong" words for things, assuming that their intentions are otherwise good and sincere.
I don't particularly enjoy having my language corrected when my intentions were good, but there's a big difference between hearing "hey you shouldn't say that" and having the words[1] you use be the basis for rejecting a job application, or even an application to serve as a panelist at Arisia.
If there *are* cases of this happening, I'm interested to hear about them.
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[1] EDIT: what I really mean is "the vocabulary you use". "Words" is a broader category. There are also clear cases where vocabulary is intentionally selected as a dog-whistle, which I think is a different thing.