• Meowoem
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    10 months ago

    Because people are desperate to feel superior, for some reason it’s even more intense than normal with anything involving women or sex - I guess it makes people feel like expert sex havers if they can one up someone on female sex organ words?

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Like I get correcting people if the only, or most common, use of a word is different enough from how they are using it it will likely cause real confusion. Doing it with tact is a little more difficult. However, when you are correcting someone for a very common use of a word, and you are in a casual setting, I can’t help but think you want to prove some point of superiority.