Late to this conversation, you may not get this. But ... > People's internal emotional states are their own to manage. Language is a tool for communication...

Late to this conversation, you may not get this. But ... > People's internal emotional states are their own to manage. Language is a tool for communication... It is not very good communication to not consider how people understand what you say. Communication has two ends and simply blaming people for not understanding you when you were aware that a word has multiple meanings in general usage makes no sense. Also, word meanings change through usage. A non-pejorative word becomes pejorative. Ignoring that is not good communication. This is not just about "internal emotional states" but simply what the word means to someone else objectively. I.e. "internal rational states", if you will. A word whose common usage has become pejorative is in rational fact, and in any up-to-date definition, pejorative. If you are not trying to be pejorative, you achieve better communication by not using it. Even if in the past it did convey what you wish it still did.