The selective outcry over new words to describe gender and sexuality -- amidst the thousands of words that are added to the dictionary every year -- is about prejudice, not principle. If these people are so averse to change, why aren't they outlawing the use of bingeable or taking more public stances on the use of the Oxford comma?
-- Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary, p. 39
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