I always took it as they’re gay and trying to be subtle about it if they say partner. Still outdated because nobody gives a shit about gay couples and if you’re a straight couple saying it, you just sound like bigger faggots than the gay couple.
Yeah, are you a gay? Call your same sex partner by the correct title, still works. Are they trans? Call them by the (in)correct progressive title, no problems! What got me thinking about this was a video I watched where 3 straight men with wives/girlfriends all calling them partner... and one was pregnant too. What a pointless change of language.
Because "gender differences" is heresy in the Cult of Woke, "husband" and "wife" are "problematic".
Agreed that it was more understandable when gay couples didn't know who it was safe to out themselves to without negative repercussions. With most people not caring that any more, there's no need to be cute and secretive. The only way "partner" might work is if one of them was nonbinary or identified as stuff such as a gumball machine. But at that point, they're probably going to be seen as oddballs anyways regardless of what term gets used for the significant other.
I was thinking this would probably be the woke reasoning behind the aforementioned generic terms for one's significant others.
It seems more pointless, pretentious and sillier when one realizes these are the same people that wordsmith and redefine other terms to suit their liking. Why they can't be calling a girlfriend a girl friend or such makes no sense with that in mind, but nothing they do makes much sense in the Cult of Woke (as @ToroidalBoat aptly put it).
They're not all narcissists. Some of the "not a good look" types are just plain cowards.
Being a misanthrope is more understandable after 2020.
People who describe their pets as their "children" should be forcibly sterilized.
I may like calling cats "fuzzy alien babies" - not necessarily my babies though.
