Folklands sounds like a folk rock festival. They'll just be manlands to me since that was what people called them when I started playing. This super PC movement is just so overdone, how can you feel so strongly about such arbitrary (for the most part) things? I'd just be tired from being outraged about shit that really doesn't matter. I can understand it in certain cases where it makes sense, but it's just so dumb when it's applied to something so pointless.
I kinda agree, but everytime you bring up that argument a zealous SJW will argue that that's how things like gender inequality creep into our society! If we can't even debate the innocious looking but just as hateful terms in everyday life, how can we ever hope to improve as a society? But yeah, I kinda get tired of it as well. The etymology of a lot of "sexist" words doesn't support a sexist reading either. It's the zeitgeist that labels them as such, and it would be much more constructive in my opinion to ignore that silly aspect of the whole discussion and just focus on the real problems.
I feel like gender equality should come before the luxury of a living wage. My employer and landlord can both legally remove me out of nowhere for disagreeing with my existence. I can also be arbitrarily denied service all over the place, hospitals and all. Why the hell would I want more wages and job opportunities if I can't live, work or spend in the first place. o_O
Right, exactly my point, thank you. There are far more pressing matters in the world than debating about whether we should relabel gender-non-neutral words. Though here I am, joining the discussion because discussing this stuff is interesting anyway, and much easier than making a real change. Could that be the root of the White Knight phenomenon?
Edit (after pages of discussion): To elaborate, I have nothing at all against social justice warriors, even if I can't always see what certain changes would add to their cause (like the manland renaming). I meant to ask a theoretical question here about a probably and hopefully very small group of people kinda posing as sjw's online without putting in the real world effort I'ld expect from true sjw's, and worded it very poorly because of multiple reasons (among them me being only vaguely familiar with the terminology and me not being a native English speaker). A question, also, I admittedly still find interesting, because it speaks to the nature of humankind. It may be still be an ill-advised question even if I had put it into context, considering what some people here went through, judging by the posts past this one. By asking that question the way I did, I totally gave the impression I was a short-sighted idiot, whereas in reality I'm a short sighted idiot who's pro equal rights, regardless of faith, skin color, gender or sexual orientation, including same-sex marriage, and including same-sex couples raising kids. I'll also try to use another word than manland, because really, it's not all that much trouble to do so anyway, so why resist when others do care?