the_dark_lewd on 05 February 2016
Yes people overuse it to hell. Neither racist or sexist mean much anymore. They've been turned into rhetorical weapons rather than objective descriptions.
Just this week some moron was annoying Oxford dictionaries telling them their definition examples were sexist. What he'd done was effectively pluck a random selection out where "she" was used for a negative act or trait e.g "she had a shrill voice". and he'd declared this sexist. Which of course it's nothing of the sort. To determine whether it was sexist, you'd have to look at the dictionary as a whole and compare the male/female averages. Cherry picking is meaningless.
