Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)

Re:Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018) by aortega on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:18AM (#21099741)

> But that's literally what a vulnerability is: a weakness.

There is a concerted effort at social engineering so powerful that now the very word meanings are challenged. Vulnerability is always, unequivocally a weakness. It's the very definition of the word.

Redefining vulnerability as strength is exactly 1984's Doublespeak.

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Re:Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018) by danharaj on Saturday September 28, 2019 @10:54AM (#21100597)

Lao Zi called weakness strength thousands of years ago. Maybe there's a useful idea you haven't yet understood.

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Re:Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018) by dang on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:10PM (#21103221)

That's not the definition of the word. It means being wounded or capable of being wounded (Latin vulnus = wound):

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vulnerable

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/vulnerable?s=t

Therefore all humans are vulnerable. Where strength vs. weakness enter into it is how one deals with one's vulnerability. That gets complex. Is denial strength or weakness? Maybe both.

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Re:Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018) by hope-striker on Saturday September 28, 2019 @10:24AM (#21100433)

I agree, it's a very strange use of the word, and I'm confused as to how it became so popular, but concerted by whom and to what end?

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