let's discuss this with A Restricted Vocabulary

Gender is as complicated as "sex stereotypes," unless you are referring to gender as it relates to linguistics (I'm referring to languages like French, Spanish, Italian, etc., that have gendered words).

Also, having nebulous definitions for nebulous concepts is ridiculous. How is that in any way helpful?

Why not seek to clarify nebulous concepts with accurate language instead?

If I tell you that I feel odd today, what have you learned? You have learned that in some way I feel uneven.

If I tell you that I have a migraine, that I do not know how I am going to pay my rent, and that I feel as if there is no hope for anything good in the world, have you learned anything new? Are you better able to understand what I meant by odd?

Of course you have. Of course you are.

Claiming that promoting nebulous terms as descriptive language is somehow a good idea is to deny that clarity in communication is vital for understanding. It makes the very purpose of language pointless. I might as well just point to a rock and expect someone else to understand my meaning.

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