AverageMinimax
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AverageMinimax
22d ago
Didn't want to get no fight going. I just meant to point out that while linguistically and culturally, for my blaming of the use of the "wife" word in such context, I surely seem the over-conservative "red tribe" person, I am actually believing that the ICE shooter is unexcusable for what he did. So my position is a little bit more complex than "purely extra-conservative zealot" as I could seem for my linguistic idiosincracies
On the purely linguistic side of the Minneapolis shooting (which looks as a totally intentional assassination by ICE to me) and the media reports on it. Does anyone, like me, feel puzzled from the naturalness and ease that media use when they talk about (the unjustly and brutally killed) Renee Good's "wife"? It's the same strange feeling I get when I read the online discussions on the PLURIBUS tv series and the first episode in which the female protagonist's "wife" is killed. What I find strange is the absolute nonchalance that is used in media to describe the partner of a woman as her "wife". The grumpy conservative in me would like to say: "No, no, no! She is a partner. She is a significant other. She is a lover. She is everything but she isn't a "wife". The word "wife" has a very different meaning!". Of course this is a tiny minority position: I understand that the zeitgeist, today, has completely normalized the use of the word "wife" to describe a woman who is sentimentally joined with another woman. But still I find a sense of uneasiness when I hear such uses of the "wife" word...
If you believe that everything that you don't like is "trolling", I envy you. I would LOVE to be so confident in my epistemic superpowers
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