Hrefna (DHC) on Nostr: This doesn't mean that we don't work to fix our language, but it does mean that we ...

This doesn't mean that we don't work to fix our language, but it does mean that we need to be aware of the context a word or phrase exists in and the cultural intersections that go along with it.

We just aren't trying to move someone necessarily "away from an imperfect form" and "toward a perfect form that we decided on fifteen minutes ago." Instead there is a cultural gap, there is a matter of identity, and humanity (and all of nature) likes to defy categorization every chance it gets.