Its status as a slur is not determined by the dictionary definition. It's a slur because transgendered people (the target of the term) consider it to be so.
One of those situations is more dangerous than the other, I would say.
This may come as a shock to you, but women are not cars.
I believe it was published in a section of the journal that does not require peer-review.
Similarly I think there's a tendency to paint extroverts as being lacking in 'book-smarts'. Of course, anyone who has ever read a Richard Feynman book can tell you that's not the case.
You're right, it's definitely a spectrum. But I guess just generally speaking I find the whole introvert/extrovert dichotomy to be massively overblown.
>I like socializing, hanging out with friends, and going to parties, but they make me feel tired and I need time alone to "recharge" afterward. It's especially draining to meet new people. This sounds like a Forer…
Noticed that when I use CRTL+click to open tabs from the list the tab counter still decrements even though the number of tabs in the list does not decrease. Now I'm looking at a list of tabs with -3 tabs at the top.
I was in an upscale department store in July and spotted a very nice Prada cap, with a fairly distinctive shape. In September I went into a Zara near me and spotted a cap that was pretty clearly a facsimile of the Prada…
Reminds me of the quote by one author (I think it was Stephen King but I'm not sure). "I don't get paid to write books. I get paid to finish them."
Its status as a slur is not determined by the dictionary definition. It's a slur because transgendered people (the target of the term) consider it to be so.
One of those situations is more dangerous than the other, I would say.
This may come as a shock to you, but women are not cars.
I believe it was published in a section of the journal that does not require peer-review.
Similarly I think there's a tendency to paint extroverts as being lacking in 'book-smarts'. Of course, anyone who has ever read a Richard Feynman book can tell you that's not the case.
You're right, it's definitely a spectrum. But I guess just generally speaking I find the whole introvert/extrovert dichotomy to be massively overblown.
>I like socializing, hanging out with friends, and going to parties, but they make me feel tired and I need time alone to "recharge" afterward. It's especially draining to meet new people. This sounds like a Forer…
Noticed that when I use CRTL+click to open tabs from the list the tab counter still decrements even though the number of tabs in the list does not decrease. Now I'm looking at a list of tabs with -3 tabs at the top.
I was in an upscale department store in July and spotted a very nice Prada cap, with a fairly distinctive shape. In September I went into a Zara near me and spotted a cap that was pretty clearly a facsimile of the Prada…
Reminds me of the quote by one author (I think it was Stephen King but I'm not sure). "I don't get paid to write books. I get paid to finish them."