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?"
@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.
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. :(