On: Heresy

[bradleyjg]

This is a commonly made point, but is misleading. The historical usage is for a hypothetical or unknown referent not a specific, known person.

Furthermore, generic he has also been around for hundreds of years. So we should keep using that too, right?

[mcronce → bradleyjg]

> This is a commonly made point, but is misleading. The historical usage is for a hypothetical or unknown referent not a specific, known person.

This seems less like a material distinction and more like something that transphobic people would bring up to support their ideology.

> Furthermore, generic he has also been around for hundreds of years. So we should keep using that too, right?

My point was that it isn't new or somehow "a gen Z thing", not "all old things are good"

[bradleyjg → mcronce]

transphobic people transphobic people would bring up to support their ideology

No one has said anything about trans people, we were talking Gen z butchering the English language. Also, is it a disorder (“phobic”) or an ideology? Or do you not understand that distinction either?

[mcronce → bradleyjg]

Transphobia, much like homophobia, refers to an ideology, not an actual fear. Nice try getting on your prescriptivist high horse, though.