Science Dictionary.com revises definitions to eliminate prejudiced language - homosexuality is gay

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/01/dictionarycom-revises-definitions-eliminate-prejudiced-language

Dictionary.com is making major changes to more than 15,000 of its definitions, from capitalising Black to updating entries about sexual orientation, aiming to foreground people over “clinical language”.

On Tuesday the website, which with 70m monthly users describes itself as the world’s leading digital dictionary, released what it called its largest ever update.

Across the board, Dictionary.com’s language referring to LGBTQIA people has been revised to change “homosexual” to “gay” and “homosexuality” to “gay sexual orientation”, with the dictionary saying that the changes would put “the focus on people … removing the implication of a medical diagnosis, sickness, or pathology when describing normal human behaviours and ways of being”.


It has also capitalised Black, a change that affects hundreds of entries, in what it said was “a mark of respect and recognition that’s in line with capitalising other cultures and ethnicities”. And it has added a separate entry for Black, as it refers to a person, a move that breaks with dictionary conventions to group together words that share the same origin.

“This change reflects Dictionary.com’s point of view that language entries have consequences and go beyond being simply an academic exercise,” it said.

Another major revision updates language used around suicide and addiction, with use of the phrase “commit suicide” removed and replaced with “die by suicide” or “end one’s life”, while instances of “addict” as a noun are replaced with “person addicted to” or “habitual user of”. It said the changes were intended to eliminate language that implied moral judgment or incorporated historical prejudice.

“2020 has been a year of change like never before, affecting how we live, work, interact – and how we use language,” said Jennifer Steeves-Kiss, chief executive of Dictionary.com. “Our biggest release yet represents a tireless commitment from our entire team not only to documenting how language evolves, but to ensuring our users always find the meaning they need.”

Along with the revisions, Dictionary.com has added 650 new entries, from words relating to race and ethnicity (such as Afro-Latina and Afro-Latino) to those reflecting environmental issues (such as ecoanxiety) or sexuality (such as ace, referring to asexuality). Abbreviations used on social media, such as af (“as fuck; to a great degree”), DGAF (“to not care at all; a euphemistic initialism used to indicate an indifferent or unbothered attitude, without explicit vulgarity”), and slang terms such as jabroni (“a stupid, foolish, or contemptible person; loser”) and janky (“untrustworthy; disreputable”) have also been added.

“The work of a dictionary is more than just adding new words. It’s an ongoing effort to ensure that how we define words reflects changes in language – and life,” said senior editor John Kelly. “Among our many new entries are thousands of deeper, dictionary-wide revisions that touch us on our most personal levels: how we talk about ourselves and our identities, from race to sexual orientation to mental health. Our revisions are putting people, in all their rich humanity, first, and we’re extremely proud of that.”




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So https://www.dictionary.com/browse/homosexual

adjective
Often Disparaging and Offensive. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex; gay:homosexual couples.
Often Disparaging and Offensive. of or relating to sexual desire or behavior directed toward members of one's own sex:the homosexual subculture.


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gay


USAGE ALERT ABOUT GAY
The sexual orientation meaning of the word gay has become so predominant that people hesitate to use the term in its original senses of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy.” But the word's association with sexuality is not new. The word gay has had various senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay house a brothel. This sexual world included gay men too, and gay as an adjective in the sexual meaning goes back at least to the late 1930s. After World War II, as social attitudes toward sexuality began to change, gay was applied openly by gay men to themselves, first as an adjective and later as a noun. It is no longer considered slang. Today, the noun often designates only gay men and is usually used as a collective plural: gays and lesbians. How do gays feel about this? But usage as a singular noun is usually perceived as insulting.
It has been argued that gay in the sense “awkward, stupid, or bad” is independent of the sexual sense, and therefore not homophobic. This argument is weakened by the fact that the sexual meaning has long been the dominant one, and thus permeates all usages of gay.


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dead-white-european-male


Dead White European Male
Dead White Male

noun
a man whose importance and talents may have been exaggerated because he belonged to a historically dominant gender and ethnic group

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whitesplain

whitesplain
[ hwahyt-spleyn, wahyt‐ ]SHOW IPA
verb (used with or without object)
(of a white person) to comment on the minority experience or explain racism to a person of color in a condescending or blaming way, as to point out accommodating behaviors that the victim of racism might have adopted to diffuse interracial conflict:I know what driving while Black is like, so don't you dare whitesplain it to me!


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/white-people-problem


white people problem

noun Slang: Usually Facetious.
a fairly minor problem, complaint, etc., associated with a relatively high standard of living; a first world problem.


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gender-identity

gender identity

noun
a person's inner sense of being male or female, usually developed during early childhood as a result of parental rearing practices and societal influences and strengthened during puberty by hormonal changes.


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whitelash

whitelash
[ hwahyt-lash, wahyt‐ ]SHOW IPA
noun
a hostile or violent reaction by white people to the advances or influx of other racial or ethnic groups:a whitelash against African Americans, immigrants, and Muslims.


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/white-guilt

white guilt
[ hwahyt-gilt, wahyt ]SHOW IPA
noun
the feelings of shame and remorse some white people experience when they recognize the legacy of racism and racial injustice and perceive the ways they have benefited from it.


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/white-fragility

white fragility
[ hwahytfruh-jil-i-tee, wahyt ]SHOW IPA
noun
the tendency among members of the dominant white cultural group to have a defensive, wounded, angry, or dismissive response to evidence of racism.


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/black-lives-matter

Black Lives Matter
[ blak-lahyvz-mat-er ]SHOW IPA
noun
a political and social movement originating among African Americans, emphasizing basic human rights and racial equality for Black people and campaigning against various forms of racism. Abbreviations: BLM, B.L.M.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/white-settler


white settler

noun
a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants

 

[CumDumpster]

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Of course.

OF COURSE.

I'm so ready for the Norks to nuke Silicon Valley. It is beyond redemption.

There are more big cities that act like Silicon Valley. Do you know of how 501(c)(3)s move change around or the saying "money talks"?

 

[UselessIdiot]

This makes me want commit suicide because dictionary.com is so fucking gay.

 

[HeyYou]

The white/Black thing is the most cucked shit ever. Even AP does it.

Reminds me of the Dom/sub thing BDSM people do.
I bet you can find some cuck/BBC worship subreddit that has insisted on capitalizing black but not white for years.

AP was literally the one that led the charge. They updated their style guide to capitalize black, and since most outlets use their style guide as the basis for their journalism, that was that.

 

[UselessIdiot]

AP was literally the one that led the charge. They updated their style guide to capitalize black, and since most outlets use their style guide as the basis for their journalism, that was that.

"White people don't have a shared history, so there's no need to capitalize white, but we're going to denigrate and treat them as a single collective unit so we can bash and cuck them into total submission. Shalom!".

 

[AMHOLIO]

Dead White European Male
Dead White Male

noun
a man whose importance and talents may have been exaggerated because he belonged to a historically dominant gender and ethnic group

This is the funniest shit ngl.

EDIT: Hit reply too fast please be patient with me

whitelash
[ hwahyt-lash, wahyt‐ ]SHOW IPA
noun
a hostile or violent reaction by white people to the advances or influx of other racial or ethnic groups:a whitelash against African Americans, immigrants, and Muslims.

Cool, can we get a word for specifically muslims hardcore hating jews since that's who has the greatest hateboner for them? Or hindus on muslims?

white settler

noun
a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants

Finally, Chinese confirmed white.

Most of this is slang and particular jargon that will go back underground in 10 years. I know there's a lot of doomers on this site, but the Hippies didn't last forever either, it just feels like it because a 20 year cycle is a long time to a human.

Edit edit: last one I promise:

while instances of “addict” as a noun are replaced with “person addicted to” or “habitual user of”. It said the changes were intended to eliminate language that implied moral judgment or incorporated historical prejudice.

You can't stop prejudice against junkies by changing the sentence around. If junkies stopped stealing shit and being irresponsible over the care of people around them (like children and grandparents) THEN we will. A "habitual user of alchohol" is still an alchoholic, surprisingly.

 

[OnMoTi]

eliminate prejudiced language

Dead White European Male, whitesplain, whitelash, white fragility, white settler

 

[Teadrinkr]

>not using a 50 year old hard cover dictionary like a normal person

lol gay

Really though, does anyone (who isn't a massive faggot) actually use that website?

 

[KiwiFuzz]

I'm so ready for the Norks to nuke Silicon Valley. It is beyond redemption.

Oakland is not Silicon Valley.

Here, learn something about the local culture:

Tracing the origins of Oakland’s sideshow culture

Sideshows, which originated in Oakland in the early 1980s, are considered either dangerous and disruptive or cathartic and celebratory, depending on who you ask.

www.sfgate.com

And as far as the N-bomb goes, we should have a national day where everyone goes outside and screams it at the top of their lungs until we're bored with it. It has power because it's given power.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

use of the phrase “commit suicide” removed and replaced with “die by suicide” or “end one’s life”

Has this proscription of the phrase "commit suicide" been picked up by normal people yet? I see it in print media all the time, but I don't have enough casual conversations about suicide to be able to tell whether normal people have adopted it yet.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

Has this proscription of the phrase "commit suicide" been picked up by normal people yet? I see it in print media all the time, but I don't have enough casual conversations about suicide to be able to tell whether normal people have adopted it yet.

lol the logic is that the word "commit" implies they were in a right state of mind during the act, it's a bunch of overly sensitive grapefruits getting pedantic over a phrase that won't turn anyone who needs it's buttons because they're dead.

 

[usernames can change now!]

Whitelash, noun: What happens when you spend decades demonizing a well armed racial group while pushing to make them a minority in their own countries.

See also: Boogaloo

 

[round robin]

Has this proscription of the phrase "commit suicide" been picked up by normal people yet? I see it in print media all the time, but I don't have enough casual conversations about suicide to be able to tell whether normal people have adopted it yet.

Nobody is ever going to adopt it in casual conversation because it completely removes the gravity of the situation once it's said aloud. It's almost funny how uncanny the phrase "die by suicide" is. Most of these phrases will be obsolete in just a few years, but I guess ~in an election year~ it doesn't hurt to virtue signal and attempt to control speech.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

lol the logic is that the word "commit" implies they were in a right state of mind during the act, it's a bunch of overly sensitive grapefruits getting pedantic over a phrase that won't turn anyone who needs it's buttons because they're dead.

Is it? I thought the argument was that "commit" implies criminality: "commit murder," "commit assault," "commit fraud," etc.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Black; (see: NIGGER)

 

[Titos]

I don't know about you guys but I think this might have something to do with them gays. I'm very apt at spotting gay people, it's normally the man with his face in another mans asshole.

 

[round robin]

Is it? I thought the argument was that "commit" implies criminality: "commit murder," "commit assault," "commit fraud," etc.

I always saw it as meaning "commitment." Final. You are committing to killing yourself. There is nothing after. I have heard the "criminal" argument used tho, and it's fucking stupid.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

It's almost funny how uncanny the phrase "die by suicide" is.

Agreed. It's bizarre because it seems to deny the active participation of the person committing suicide. Like, "Oh my god, did you hear what happened to Jim? He was just walking down the street, minding his own business, when without warning he died by suicide!"

I don't know about you guys but I think this might have something to do with them gays. I'm very apt at spotting gay people, it's normally the man with his face in another mans asshole.

Do you often find yourself in situations where you see men putting their faces into one another's assholes?

 

[Titos]

Agreed. It's bizarre because it seems to deny the active participation of the person committing suicide. Like, "Oh my god, did you hear what happened to Jim? He was just walking down the street, minding his own business, when without warning he died by suicide!"

Do you often find yourself in situations where you see men putting their faces into one another's assholes?

Yes, when I went to my sons graduation I was so proud, he's gonna be a lawyer, graduating from Harvard. The thing that made me most proud though was how much he loved sucking cock!
If you're not getting the reference I don't know what to say.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

Yes, when I went to my sons graduation I was so proud, he's gonna be a lawyer, graduating from Harvard. The thing that made me most proud though was how much he loved sucking cock!
If you're not getting the reference I don't know what to say.

Sorry, I guess I'm out of the loop here.

 

[Xenu Warrior Princess]

If homosexuals are gay now, lesbians are gay too (not homosexual).
Is there then a term specifically for homosexual men?