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Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

You feel a compulsion to answer. Your ego just isn’t able to let this go. Yet you can’t answer a simple question.

Case in point.

Which one of the following English sentences would you use to express admiration and adoration of a person?

“[female celebrity] is my heroine!”

OR

[female celebrity] is my hero!”

If you use the first one, as your rhetoric implies you want to, and think everyone should participate in this needless gendering, then you’re implicitly saying you don’t understand that saying “x is my heroin” outloud (“heroin” and “heroine” being homophones) means you’re addicted to something instead of admiring it (and that you don’t understand that “hero” is the colloquially used form).

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