I'll admit it. I'm utterly lost right now. Despite that, I'm going to stand by my assertion that you've been derailing this entire time because the post isn't about "old" words and definitions. It's about words and how they are defined RIGHT NOW. It's about slang that people find offensive because of how the language has evolved.
Take 'pussy' for example. Pussy used to mean 'cat'. Then it meant 'human female genitalia', then it meant 'weak-willed individual with the spine of a jellyfish'. The third meaning came directly from the second. It is usually applied to men to imply that they are feminine and that feminine is synonymous with weak.
No one gives a crap about the feline definition anymore, but by your logic it's the definition that we should really be thinking of when we use the word and not the fact that it came to be misogynistic because of its association with female genitalia.
Someone offended by pussy isn't offended because it pains them to be compared to a cat. It's offensive to men because it implies that they are feminine and it's offensive to women because it implies that being feminine is weak.
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Take 'pussy' for example. Pussy used to mean 'cat'. Then it meant 'human female genitalia', then it meant 'weak-willed individual with the spine of a jellyfish'. The third meaning came directly from the second. It is usually applied to men to imply that they are feminine and that feminine is synonymous with weak.
No one gives a crap about the feline definition anymore, but by your logic it's the definition that we should really be thinking of when we use the word and not the fact that it came to be misogynistic because of its association with female genitalia.
Someone offended by pussy isn't offended because it pains them to be compared to a cat. It's offensive to men because it implies that they are feminine and it's offensive to women because it implies that being feminine is weak.