Not quite, in that many more people understand “lame” to describe someone who can’t easily walk than understand “bad” to describe someone who exists on a gender binary, and what I expect people to actually understand by a word does have something to do with what words I chose.
‘Using “lame” as an insult is ableist!’ (By which logic, using “bad” as an insult is binarist.)
Not quite, in that many more people understand “lame” to describe someone who can’t easily walk than understand “bad” to describe someone who exists on a gender binary, and what I expect people to actually understand by a word does have something to do with what words I chose.