The problem is that the question itself implies belief of a system that many people do not buy into.
It's like saying, what type of Christian are you: practising or non-practising? A question that disregards the fact that many people don't consider that religion to be an accurate model of the world in the first place.
No, it's different than that. I'm not asking "are you a twink or a bear" I'm asking if you belong to a group that doesn't identify as homosexual. If you think homosexuality is evil, you probably can still acknowledge that some people do identify themselves as homosexual.
Your point only exists for an extremely narrow group of people who deny that people identify as trans or homosexual. And for those folks, I'd probably have a separate conversation about, "you might consider it amoral, but you know there are people who call themselves gay, right?"
Re:The Euphemism Treadmill
by nobody9999 on Saturday August 24, 2024 @02:57AM
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No. Since you're obviously too stupid to understand what I said in three different ways, I'll cut you a little slack.
What do I call people? Steve or Helene or Bobby or Samuel.
Because they are individuals and deserve to be treated as such.
Fuck off asshole.
Your own identity is not necessary not germane to this. I had used the term cishet, without any judgement intended, and some objected to that.
A Venn diagram exists, people told me not to label one section cishet, and I'm asking "if not that, what label should I use instead?"
The set exists. How do we describe that set?