Yeah, that's the whole curse of imprecision of terms, whether it's nonbinary or transfeminine/trans masculine or even trans itself! Any time you want or need to talk about large, widely varied groups of people, the language *by necessity* gets so vague and mealy-mouthed as to brush up against meaninglessness or to call out a single thing…
Yeah, that's the whole curse of imprecision of terms, whether it's nonbinary or transfeminine/trans masculine or even trans itself! Any time you want or need to talk about large, widely varied groups of people, the language *by necessity* gets so vague and mealy-mouthed as to brush up against meaninglessness or to call out a single thing that the larger group isn't as it's one common trait.
It's annoying every damn time. The worst part is that it's still usually the best way, out of many rough options.
Yeah, that's the whole curse of imprecision of terms, whether it's nonbinary or transfeminine/trans masculine or even trans itself! Any time you want or need to talk about large, widely varied groups of people, the language *by necessity* gets so vague and mealy-mouthed as to brush up against meaninglessness or to call out a single thing that the larger group isn't as it's one common trait.
It's annoying every damn time. The worst part is that it's still usually the best way, out of many rough options.