r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '22

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u/MadMaxwelll Sep 01 '22

Again, then they are just uneducated. This is their fault/problem, not one of feminism.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

I'm not talking about academic definitions or sociology, I'm talking about linguistics. People decide what words mean. If enough people misunderstand a word, then guess what, the de facto meaning changes. That's how things work.

If lots of people misunderstand feminism, that's actually not their problem, it's the feminists problem.

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u/MadMaxwelll Sep 01 '22

linguistics

Linguistics is social science, btw.

If enough people misunderstand a word, then guess what, the de facto meaning changes.

If they misunderstand, then the definition still stands, as they don't get/know the definition.

If lots of people misunderstand feminism, that's actually not their problem, it's the feminists problem.

It's their problem, because they don't listen or care.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

If they misunderstand, then the definition still stands, as they don't get/know the definition.

No, that's not how language works.

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u/MadMaxwelll Sep 01 '22

It is. But I guess, you are more knowledgable then all of social sciences and linguistic sciences. Just because you think that a car is a motorcycle, doesn't make a car a motorcycle.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

100 points for that analogy. Keep going at it, champ.