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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GenX here - if you use the following words (among others) to describe people I’m going to assume you’ve just woken up from a 40 year coma, have significant dementia, aren’t very smart (low EQ and IQ), or are racist or sexist — “female,” “colored,” “homosexual,” “oriental,” and “mulatto.”

I won’t correct you or explain why it’s offensive, because I’m not your mom and it’s not my job to school you on life. Also the people who still use these words have fragile egos and don’t like to be corrected.

No opinion on “I have a wife” - it sounds clunky in most contexts though - so I’m trying to imagine when I’d say “I have a husband” but I can’t.  I’m sure that’s a failure of my imagination.

The arts thing needs more context.  But leaning towards everyone’s an a**h**e.

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Hilarious with the fragile egos line. [/quote]

What is wrong with the word "homosexual"? I think I missed that one, but again, I usually just say "gay or not gay" because I don't have the bandwidth or care to figure out all of the other terms mean... binary, non-binary, queer adjacent, bi-curious, pan-sexual...etc., etc., it all seems a bit silly, I mean as a female of a certain age I am invisible as a sexual being these days, so should I care, no one really pays any attention to anything I say anyway?

Plus, it all reeks of over-indulgence, overinflated sense of self-importance, over-egotistical, over-valuing of one's individual significance in the universe... if you ask me... it is the very definition of what it is to be young I guess. It's all so very millennial, or GenZ, or whatever generation we are at now... you know, those just now coming of age, the perky ones, with all of their new and improved cutting-edge, fantastical, and novel ideas.  You have to love youth! Live and let live, enjoy the sun on your face. It doesn't last forever. [/quote]

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