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Re:The moral case against equity language by zmgsabst on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:46PM (#35005929)
Our entire group of animals is named after tits:

Mammals.

How can referring to the fact people have what our entire branch of the tree of life is named after be offensive?

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Re:The moral case against equity language by TomK32 on Friday March 03, 2023 @12:01AM (#35006013)
Good thing tits are global but have have different names in other languages, Meisen in the case of my primary-guardian language.
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Re:The moral case against equity language by ertian on Friday March 03, 2023 @12:14AM (#35006076)
...Probably better not to point that out, or next thing you know we're gonna have to rewrite damn near every textbook...
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Re:The moral case against equity language by kergonath on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:52AM (#35006621)
Isn’t this ongoing already?
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Re:The moral case against equity language by SyzygistSix on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:49AM (#35007650)
Yeah, it's like a competition between the worst of two groups of people as to who can change them more and skew the language, or lack of it, in their ideological direction.
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Re:The moral case against equity language by slackdog on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:34AM (#35006514)
Incidentally not all mammals have nipples. Male kangaroos don't.
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Re:The moral case against equity language by kgwgk on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:33AM (#35007900)
Time for some class-affirming surgery then.
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