…and stating the obvious. Recently, Merriam-Webster updated their dictionary to include the words cisgender and genderqueer. Some people have been less than thrilled by this inclusion. There are times the sheer density of people is well, um, this:
“People keep 1) saying they don’t know what ‘genderqueer’ means,” said the tweet, “then 2) asking why we added it to the dictionary.”
re: the “people” referenced in the tweet
They would be classified as “willfully ignorant”.
Man, it’s almost like credible dictionaries are descriptive of language and therefore continuously update to reflect evolving language.
Or something.
I *love* their response. Hopefully, it embarrassed the hell out of some of the bigots.
I think I just found my new preferred dictionary.