I don’t think “female” is offensive.
I thought it was offensive because some (supposedly female) users said it was offensive; but I didn’t understand why my female friends used the term (female).
I found another saying that it wasn’t offensive, and I immediate copied that belief.
LGBTQ+ politics is confusing …
Make a mistake, get corrected, and act accordingly. I say this as someone who has made plenty of mistakes and has been corrected plenty of times, and these days I find it easier to keep up with language that evolves. I wouldn’t say it’s an easy way to get cancelled, unless one insists on planting their feet in the dirt and not being willing to budge at all.
There was that one celebrity who was cancelled for saying ‘all lives matter’. They apologized and said they didn’t know.
Were they cancelled, or did they just say a really stupid statement and face public backlash that typically come as a response to divisive, contrarian statements?
doesn’t cancelled = face public backlash that typically come as a response to divisive, contrarian statements?
I don’t think so. I’d say cancelled is more akin to being blacklisted.