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"Stripped"? Really? Because typical bureaucratic literature has added one more abstraction? Health literature and other bureaucratic literature is chock full
by joe_the_user 4y ago
"Stripped"? Really?
Because typical bureaucratic literature has added one more abstraction?
Health literature and other bureaucratic literature is chock full of abstraction and euphemisms. The entire edifice is aesthetically unpleasant and euphemisms broadly are sometimes used to let bureaucrats get away with terrible thing (see George Orwell talking of "population relocation" in Politics and The English Language). But I don't see the euphemisms targeted here doing any real damage. I mean "not saying things I think should be said" only qualifies as harm if you abuse language far more than these changes do.
- nicoburns 4y agoIt's the inconsistency that gets me. If we have to say "people who menstruate" and "people with uteruses" for physical sex characteristics because "women" isn't precise enough, then shouldn't we also say "people who feel like women", "people who conform to feminine social norms" etc rather than "women" for the social aspects of gender. They aren't binary either, so "women" is no more accurate.