"(I)t is essential to use words accurately and in good faith…beware of those who seek to win an argument at the expense of the language. For the fact that they do is proof positive that their argument is false, and proof presumptive that they know it is. A man who deliberately inflicts violence on the language will almost certainly inflict violence on human beings if he acquires the power. Those who treasure the meaning of words will treasure truth, and those who bend words to their purposes are very likely in pursuit of anti-social ones. The correct and honourable use of words is the first and natural credential of civilized status.”
- Paul Johnson, Enemies of Society
translation, rape is okay because bitches
Way to make the point of the Johnson quote.
you’re the one advocating for dudes not being held accountable for pressuring women into sex and you’re lecturing //me// about bending language towards anti-social purposes? try again son.
Again, you’re making his point.
When I was a kid no meant no and yes meant yes.
Now feminists want to play this game where “yes” can also mean “no.”
That is the perfect example of what Johnson was warning against, as are the games you’re playing right now.
It’s very shameful.
women were always playing the game where yes didn't always mean yes but you just weren't listening
and it was your game
men pressuring women, men having all the power and abusing it to pressure women, women saying yes because saying no isn't respected, isn't appreciated, isn't not punished
you're still advocating in favor of language absolutism without acknowledging power dynamics, you're still pretending that women aren't killed more often by their boyfriends and husbands than complete strangers, you're still pretending that women don't live in a world where men demand their attention and their enthusiam and their bodies at all times whether they want to or not
where women are frigid if they say no and whores if they say yes
none of this happens in isolation but you're trying to say 'this real constant continuous oppression that women are always talking about not only isn't real but is a huge inconvenience to me'
and trying to couch that in bullshit arguments about the purity of language
as if language was actually ever an absolute value
as if words have only ever had a single unchanging meaning
as if complaints about the perversion of the english language don't go back so far the earliest extant examples require translation
as if language as an absolute value isn't just another system of control you're choosing not to recognize because you benefit from it
your entire thesis is shitting on women for complaining about misogyny, but //god forbid// someone mess with the purity of the english fucking language
complaining about the 'shameful' abuse of words while defending rape culture
you're a hack
try harder
