When youâre talking about gay folk and same sex attraction conceptually, you donât call it âhomosexualismâ or âgayologyâ. You would use the term homosexuality or same sex attraction.
Okay, so if I want a single word, âtransgenderalityâ? That really just sounds bizarre, I have to say. Not to mention Iâve never seen any person talking about trans issues ever say/write that.
The issue is explicitly the âismâ. The -ism suffix is used to denote political and ideological beliefs
Thatâs only one way that suffix is used, and itâs assumption on your part that when you see that suffix, that thatâs the way itâs being used. In other words, I think you should allow for the possibility that it ainât that deep. Was it not obvious from the context of what/how I was writing that I wasnât coming from a transphobic place?
-ism is used for all sorts of nouns that simply describe a state of being (e.g. autism, alcoholism, absenteeism), and thatâs all I aimed for. And from what you said in your comment, it seems like this is uncharted territory, if thereâs no actual single word term regularly employed for this particular state of beingâall of your examples are multiple words.
P.S. By the way, I donât really care if something inherently benign is popular among shitty peopleâin my opinion, all the more reason to take it away from them, by using it benignly more often than they use it pejoratively. It was successfully done with âqueerâ, I say keep that train running!
damnedfurry@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Okay, so if I want a single word, âtransgenderalityâ? That really just sounds bizarre, I have to say. Not to mention Iâve never seen any person talking about trans issues ever say/write that.
Thatâs only one way that suffix is used, and itâs assumption on your part that when you see that suffix, that thatâs the way itâs being used. In other words, I think you should allow for the possibility that it ainât that deep. Was it not obvious from the context of what/how I was writing that I wasnât coming from a transphobic place?
-ism is used for all sorts of nouns that simply describe a state of being (e.g. autism, alcoholism, absenteeism), and thatâs all I aimed for. And from what you said in your comment, it seems like this is uncharted territory, if thereâs no actual single word term regularly employed for this particular state of beingâall of your examples are multiple words.
P.S. By the way, I donât really care if something inherently benign is popular among shitty peopleâin my opinion, all the more reason to take it away from them, by using it benignly more often than they use it pejoratively. It was successfully done with âqueerâ, I say keep that train running!