When people say "cowboy," they don't mean the hundreds of thousands of working-class guys driving cattle for a living. They either mean Wild Bill or they mean

When people say "cowboy," they don't mean the hundreds of thousands of working-class guys driving cattle for a living. They either mean Wild Bill or they mean some guy at a rodeo. When people say "trucker" they don't mean the hundreds of thousands of guys driving food deliveries to grocery stores; they mean Jerry Reed from Smokey and the Bandit. When people say "princess" they don't mean Lady Di, they mean any number of Disney characters. In a similar vein, when people say "hacker" they don't particularly give a shit what side the guy's on, and "black hat" as a term is only acceptable in IT communities -- everyone else smirks at the nerd shit and continues using the terminology accepted by the vast majority of human society. You're going to have to get used to it.