Also I hate “Argument from etymology”

I’ve seen people be like “the word vagina is misogynist because it comes from a word for scabbard so it’s all about VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN”

and I’m like “you don’t stab your scabbard, goofus, you’d break your sword, you put it in slow and gentle and keep it there so it’s safe and doesn’t get nicked or dented… which implies a vagina is a safe place to keep your penis when you’re not using it, which I mean doesn’t make much sense but it’s certainly not violent”

Also words do not carry their origins around forever.  Comicbook doesn’t secretly mean that superhero comics are secretly all works of comedy even though the form originated with collected newspaper funnies.

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