| Zkuq said: Uh, OK. I somewhat suggested what you're saying, so not sure why you feel the need to tell me this. I pretty much said that it feels like feminism means what the name suggests instead of what feminists claim (which seems to be the 'official' definition). Which basically means a contradiction between the dictionary definition and actual usage. Also, the question is whether dictionaries will change to match the language, or whether people will change to match the definition of feminism first. It could go either way, especially when you consider how big of a movement feminism has become (or maybe I'm just seeing more of it, who knows). |
Yeah, sorry. It was mostly aimed at the other guy.
As for your last point. It'll almost definitely die out at the current rate, unless something changes. It's just incredibly hard to force people to use certain words. Someone once likened trying to get a particular word to be used like trying to turn around the tide with a bucket
And feminism hasn't really grown. The polling suggests it's at its lowest popularity in the last 60 years or so with the general public. All that's happened is that it's completely infiltrated certain sections of the media in the last decade. So it has a very large megaphone that not too many people listen to.
