Also like you know fucking what?

Google gives the definition of femme as:

a lesbian or an effeminate male homosexual who takes a traditionally feminine sexual role.

Which is like clearly not how it’s used here and people would fight you SO hard over that definition, but also would be FURIOUS if you didn’t define it the way they do but also would be like “Well there’s context and tradition behind the meaning” and then be like “GOOGLE IT, it’s not my job to educate you” when you ask them what the word in fact means according to them.

You know

I’m really really tired of arguments about what the word femme means, and the history of the word and who’s allowed to use it and whatever.

At this point I don’t even care what we decide it means and who we decide its use is limited to.

Just settle on one definition so arguments don’t turn into semantic nightmares.

I swear to god, 95% of online arguments are semantic in nature.

And it drives me up the damned wall.

Correction: There Are Two Major Types Of Arguments

“Semantic”, and “Whose statistics and interpretation there of are correct”

Also The Warsaw Pact Nations

A: Never said they had communism.

B: Said they had socialism, but socialism is defined as “A system where the workers own the means of production” except in these states the state owned the means of production so that’s clearly something else.

So they were “socialist” as much as the United States is “at peace” with Iraq, after all we never formally declared war, so like… yeah

I’m increasingly coming to believe

that at least 60% of arguments are based on semantic/definitional issues.

Like when I argue with anti-communists they think I mean “the structure of the Warsaw pact nations” when I say “communist” when I mean “Marx’s idea of a post state, post scarcity social organization”