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this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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I appreciate it tried to come from a supportive place, but I feel like any term that groups an entire range of people as being a single label is going to be inherently problematic. As opposed to just using an adjective to describe a human, it turns people into something else. It's an important but subtle lingual distinction between describing one part of you, and ascribing your entire existence as beholden to that one part of you.
If I'm a person who likes beans, I'm still a human being with many other complex dimensions to learn about. If I'm a "Beanlover" then people suddenly assume they know everything about me, and I can be separately thought of and judged from the rest of the population.
I mean I am a bean lover, but that's beside the point.