(09-08-2015, 12:54 AM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote:Amen.(09-08-2015, 12:43 AM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote:(09-08-2015, 12:38 AM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: Dated, yes.
Distasteful, no (it's a medical term, albeit a dated one, as you mentioned).
Is intersex the more generally used term in clinical discussion in 2015? Yes.
Is intersex the more generally used term in pop culture and media in 2015? Not yet.
Is nitpicking which medical term is used in a forum thread productive? Not really.
Yeah, no, please read the above. It's not nitpicking in the slightest.
Hun, I'm not uneducated, and I'm involved in plenty of LGBT rights situations myself. You're totally missing the point that these are both medical terms - neither is slang, a slur, an insult, etc.
Getting insulted over nothing is not going to help; especially due to the context that word was used into, it is really, really a neutral way of describing it, given Chiyo was using the medicial term for it in a neutral, open discussion about it.
