Do Words Mean Anything Anymore?
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Do Words Mean Anything Anymore?
If feminism is anything, every argument against it is valid.
A concept cannot be falsified if its definition constantly shifts. Feminism suffers from semantic slippage veering into incoherence. When I argue that it’s disempowering, someone inevitably says my definition of feminism isn’t true and constructs a straw man assuming I’m against women’s
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We make and invent words to describe the world around us. But we also change the world around us because of the language we use. If “intrusive thoughts” are just “random ideas that pop into our heads” rather than “an upsetting symptom of a debilitating condition”, then we see the behavior of the mentally ill as a personal lack of control. If
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is it mere coincidence that these terms move further away from their specific usage and towards a neutered, politically neutral meaning?