Why do we call men heroes and women heroines when HERO WAS FEMALE?
@sfleetucker @stueytheround
lol, I worked with a couple people, one a bisexual woman and the other a gay man. He was being very demanding about some trivial things, and she referred to him being a "princess." Which made him lose his shit. Because it is intolerable to call a man by a female term but fine to define anything female as negative. (If he had called her a "prince," it would have been puzzling but not insulting.)
You can't speak the English language w/o microaggressions against women.
@AlphaCentauri It's true. I'm also not keen on the term "Shero" for the same reason. It's a word that should not need inventing.
If a woman does something heroic, I am more than happy calling her a hero.
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@stueytheround @AlphaCentauri @sfleetucker
Super-ironically, I've recently come across guys saying "femcels don't exist, because women can always get laid if they want to".
The term incel was created by a woman. She created the Involuntary Celibacy Project, a website for those who were struggling to form loving relationships.
Now incel is so co-opted by angry, lonely men that some people have created a feminized version of the term, and these guys are saying it's an impossible idea.
Spoken by men who call any woman above a size 2 fat.
@Shelter That's what I'm thinking, too. Women who don't fit into the misogynistic "attractive" mould can easily find themselves lonely.
@AlphaCentauri @stueytheround
Weirdly, most of the men I'm around just laugh when we call each other (or ourselves) queen or princess. But then most of us are not worried about being seen as "feminine."
It's masc4masc crowd that get twisted when you use those words, and they're still dealing with their internalized homophobia. :(