Just because others are using a word for a different meaning doesn’t mean you should abandon its original meaning and just give up on it. Grooming is not an ir

Just because others are using a word for a different meaning doesn’t mean you should abandon its original meaning and just give up on it. Grooming is not an irregular word. The act of grooming oneself is hopefully a regular activity. Brushing your teeth, trimming your nails, getting hair cuts, etc. The word is also regularly used with pets. IMO this is like when a while back all the news sites were talking about how the OK hand sign was a white supremacist symbol. If everyone had stopped using it, then perhaps it would still be seen as a symbol for that. But everyone that that was dumb and kept using it the way it always has always has been and that new association was lost.