Why do we call men heroes and women heroines when HERO WAS FEMALE?
@stueytheround We gotta get the MRAs on this. It'll be hilarious.
"When they call you a hero, you know they're calling your a brave priestess, right?"
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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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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.
@Shelter That's what I'm thinking, too. Women who don't fit into the misogynistic "attractive" mould can easily find themselves lonely.
@tyghebright
Spoken by men who call any woman above a size 2 fat.
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