Black Lives Matter • Anya • Demisexual • Demi-Panromantic • Agender • 23 • She/Her or They/Them • INTP-T • Chronically ill • Autistic • Spoonie • White • Trying to survive college. I post things from many different fandoms and whatever else I see that I like. Icon made with lulljevic's picrew maker! TERFs, SWERFs, RACISTS, AND EXCLUSIONIST NOT WELCOME
I’m kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn’t colonizer bullshit, it’s what everyone does. It’s just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:
“Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A’s word for thing. Say, what do you call it?”
“Oh it’s [language B’s word for thing].”
“Got it, it’s [language B’s word for thing] variety [language A’s word for thing]”
added to which it is LITERALLY JUST LINGUISTIC SHORTHAND for
[item] the way [culture] makes it.
If you don’t want sliced bread, you want bread the way Eastern Indians make it you ask for Roti, not bread. Because Roti is bread THE WAY [EASTERN] INDIANS MAKE IT. Like fuck, it’s not that complicated a concept.
OF COURSE it’s not colonizer bullshit! It’s just linguistic shorthand!
my official stance is a pregnancy is whatever the pregnant person wants it to be. if it’s a 4 week old clump of cells and they want to call it a baby it’s a baby. if they’re 20 weeks and they want to call it a parasite it’s a parasite. if they’re 39 weeks and call it a fetus it’s a fetus. “why are you so sad about miscarrying at 6 weeks it was literally just an embryo” because that was their baby. “how can you get an abortion at three months” because that wasn’t a baby. hope that helps.
today’s children are gonna become teens and clown the shit out of us for ‘eepy’ and 'blorbo’ but they’ll say it in cocomelonese so we won’t understand them
today’s eepy blorbo is yesterday’s heckin doggo is last week’s smexy bishie
I hate that you’re right and that I understood all of that.
