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  1. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    But I like pink. :(
  2. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    I dunno, Iceland is generally more equality-advocating than the Anglosphere countries, and in Icelandic, the pronouns and other misc. words for male/female are completely different, unlike their Anglosphere counterparts. So maybe you're on to something?
  3. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    Sorry about me doing that, I see how obnoxious that is now. Indeed. Why do people keep on putting words and nonexistent context into Pathos' arguments?
  4. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    No problem, its a peeve of mine too.
  5. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

  6. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    That's what I was attempting to say when I said "I don't know how to reply to the rest of it.", that and what Pathos (Hi! *waves* ) said. Language is gradual, and while it may not necessarily shape how we think, fuzzy thinking with corrupted language leads to bad results, like the diagram...
  7. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    Oh, in that case, I suppose thats fine, I'm more fond of singular they, and as for the rest of the reply, I don't know how to reply to it.
  8. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    Why are you being (from what I perceive) mean? I was just saying (to someone else) if you don't know someone else's gender, you don't have to address them with gendered pronouns, and that there is ways around it, mainly by using second person.
  9. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    First off, Ad Hominem attacks aren't productive. Secondly, where is the pronouns in "See aforementioned example of how much that could hurt a transgender person. Any default gender hurts transgender people, period."? Thirdly do you actually want a block of text without gendered pronouns? Here...
  10. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    If I ran up to a women who didn't happen to have a female genitalia at birth and her friend, and asked her friend 'Who is he?' it would crush her inside for the rest of the day/week/month, I am certain of it. One can speak a great deal without having to resort to pronoun use. See...
  11. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    I second that notion.
  12. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    I love inaccurate poisoning-the-well-logical-fallacy attacks, they are so fun. No, I made a topic about whether rape jokes on television are given too much leniency. If you tell them they can't where a burka in your country, they'll look at you, and move away. Yes, I do believe you are being...
  13. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    Actually, Latin endings usually denote changes to the end of a sentence for grammatical purpose, wherein Latin suffixes usually denotes changes to the end of a sentence for semantic purpose. I was not the one that brought up that they disliked the word 'feminist' because it is has female...
  14. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    I was asked for a definition! Its not an ending, its a suffix thats masculine, sorry if I wasn't clear.
  15. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    Noun feminist (plural feminists) A person who supports the equality of women with men. A member of a feminist political movement. One who believes in the social, political, and economical equality of the sexes.
  16. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    Damn you, connotations. *sigh* You are right though.
  17. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    What is a concrete definition?
  18. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    Google says 0.6 second(s) not weeks. As well, people are raising shit about it being derived from a Latin word meaning female, so why not raise the point the ending is masculine? This is a good point, but people are trying to use etymology as a justification, and that bugs me. So "feminist" is...
  19. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    In Latin, just as 'femina' is Latin. And, I don't believe so. They are related semantically (a belief system, one who believes in said system) not etymologically (at least not directly), as -ist is an Old French from Latin from Greek borrowing, wherein -ism is a direct Greek borrowing..
  20. Eloi

    Do you identify as a feminist?

    Yes, but -ist is a masculine ending.
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