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This is true only if you use a specific sociological definition of "sexism", which is absolutely not to be equivocated with the one in common vernacular.
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
This is true only if you use a specific sociological definition of "sexism", which is absolutely not to be equivocated with the one in common vernacular.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> This is true only if you use a specific sociological definition of "sexism", which is absolutely not to be equivocated with the one in common vernacular. I think you mean "equate". "Equivocate" means something quite different.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoActually, I do mean "equivocate". To quote Wikipedia, it is "the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time)".
- dragonwriter 12y agoI know what "equivocate" means -- but when you equivocate by conflating one sense of a word with another sense of the word, its not described as equivocating the first sense with the latter sense. You might equivocate with a person (the person to whom you address the equivocation), or equivocate by interchanging one definition with another.