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Screenshot of a tweet by @feralhousepuppy: hey so you’ve been calling me “bro”, “man”, and “dude” a lot and it’s really invalidating to my masculinity cause those are all gender neutral things you call trans women :/
Screenshot of a tweet by @feralhousepuppy: hey so you’ve been calling me “bro”, “man”, and “dude” a lot and it’s really invalidating to my masculinity cause those are all gender neutral things you call trans women :/
Just that you shouldn’t expect two words that have similar meanings to be treated the same way, because they often have different connotations and usages.
Okay but we’re not trying to speak German here. It’s English, and in English they don’t really have different meanings. You can’t just say they do then not be able to actually say what difference there is. That’s silly.
Do you know what a connotation is? Frankly this is a bit annoying and I’m going to be blunt: it’s exceedingly obvious that it’s a difference in connotation (as I’ve said three times now) rather than in definition*. The difference is the context of how the words are used and the associations they have.
That is the difference.
* There are definitional differences too but it doesn’t really matter.
So you still can’t explain what the actual difference is, you just keep saying there is one. End of discussion I guess.
OP stated the difference clearly. I just quoted to you exactly where they said the difference. The definition is essentially the same but they are used and associated in different ways. I do not understand how you are confused or what further explanation you need here.