I don’t like making presumptions but I’ve heard it from all sorts of people
Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Who is actually using this term? I’ve only heard it in like medieval period fiction.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Maybe a cultural or regional thing? Or is it related to a hobby or something? I can’t think of a single time I’ve heard this phrase in normal conversation.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I found it on this very lemmy community a couple days back. It’s why I posed this question
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s huge in wrestling at the moment because it’s been a faction for like 3-4 years involving the actual bloodline descendents of chief Peter Maivia, which includes The Rock, Roman Reigns, the Wild Samoans, and pretty much any samoan in wrestling excluding Samoa Joe.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s like “female”. Nothing wrong with it per se, especially in a biological conversation, but it’s more used with animals.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I think it’s a bit different. Female at least refers to a real biological trait (or at least collection of traits). As a scientist I use the word female in my work all of the time, and frankly I’m not sure what alternatives to it even exist.
Bloodline is like… weird racist antiquated European ideas about ancestry that are more or less completely unscientific and wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever once heard it used in a scientific context.