I worry folks are downvoting because they take the title as an endorsement of anti-feminism. This is an explicit statement that this sub is in no way anti-feminist. Read the sidebar.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
    17·
    8 months ago

    Language changes with time, not with birth year. While someone born in 1972 certainly has much more life experience and context than someone born in 2002, the question today will mean approximately the same thing to both.

    • No1RivenFucker@sh.itjust.works
      62·
      8 months ago

      Not really, no. People aren’t working off some master database of language that pushes updates out universally. They’re working from their own understanding based on their own life experiences. Someone born in 1973 will have a very different socialization and bundle of personal experiences than someone born in 2002.

      • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
        24·
        8 months ago

        People aren’t working off some master database of language that pushes updates out universally.

        Actually, they pretty much are. Think about it: Language would pretty much fall apart otherwise.

        Source: I’m a linguist.