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boomstab-papa · 4 months ago

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As long as we are making up people & inventing new contexts

If this hypothetical cishet man says his girlfriend is "one of the guys" then yes, he does. By his own admission, taken literally. This is part of why context is important in linguistics.

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#i am tired so this is not an invitation to discourse #this is mockery #yes it is distinctly unfeminist that the masculine is still widely considered The Default or The Generic #yes it is rude to call an individual man or dude or bro or etc etc etc if they have asked you not to #but this is the website where context goes to die #like ''isnt 'crushing it' glorifying violence? if i asked an artist if they'd like to literally crush their art wouldn't they say no?''#context. uh. matters. in matters of slang and linguistics #discourse #polls #talking

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