No, it was a lazy sentence.
No I'm not.
He said shemale, and he's from france, and he expressed surprise at the American changes to acceptance. (Intent again)
Did you tell the entire group of people that used the word openly for decades. I'm as old as you, lol. I remember it being used freely, if not medically. Not everything is a text book, man. Jesus.
I can see the argument for "softening" the language for things like that as diminishing the severity of the condition, which could lead to less public support on its treatment.
That's awesome. I always wanted to go into something having to do with lit (it was a minor) other than writing books I'll never try to get published.
True, and I can get behind not doing that. But couldn't it also be the opposite. A way to foster a wider public understanding?
I think using Shell Shock would get people to stop treating people who suffer it like leppers.
True. It's not a sure thing what the outcome would be, so I think I'd leave it specifically to the people with said conditions whether they think something is inappropriate. Having said that, my grandpa's old army buddies preferred the term Shell Shock because of how badass it sounds.
Both are hard sounding words though. Both have impact. That doesn't necessarily bring about inclusion.
I'm so tired of that word. People suffering from a serious issue like PTSD or whatever it's called now shouldn't worry about inclusion (accept friends and family of course), they should worry about healing.
PTSD does cover more things. Though, I think the term is starting to become a bit overused for mundane things on sites like twitter. (Haven't seen that IRL, thankfully)
IMO you hit the real argument against it. Shell shock implies battle issue, which isn't the case.
Used freely?! What circles did you run around in?
Dude, you're making an excuse - not a reason. Yes, AON is from France - but he knew the term (even if he defined it in the wrong way) - It wasn't a new thing that "shemale" is not a nice word. You're moving your goalposts or attempting to find an alternate excuse.
Truth. And that is why the psychological field ceased using "shell shock" - because they realized PTSD happened to many people due to a variety of issues and so they changed the term they used in order to be more correct.
Well I'd agree with the healing part, but the word use was just a result of you using the word leper.
Midwest (Missouri). 70s and 80s. heh. You are wrong. And if you pull a "I'm from the midwest" then you didn't fucking pay attention.
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My whole, and only, issue is that your second response should have been your first, that's all. No hard feelings or anything.
Battle Fatigue! I just reminded myself what the second accepted term was. I can see why they dumped that easier than I can see why they dumped shell shock. At least shell shock could be used as a euphemism for trauma.
Wait, Missouri's a real place? I thought it was made up.
How was it used?
And it almost was - but I thought saying that up front would have been looked like I was lecturing. Much of what I put in the second post I had deleted from the first post before I hit "reply" button.
How was it used? Several ways. Almost every way you could think of. Yeah, some used it as a school yard insult. Others, when I was older, was nerdy kids talking about shit. Just conversation.
Did you talk to people? What part of the midwest? Was it Ohio? They're fake midwest.
I doubt a lot of what you paste is what you support other than in the vague term of "these are facts", but this is a much more nebulous conversation. The fact dumps don't really float here other than to show more of one side of this issue.
