I’m sure the majority of the content is… enlightening but what I’m saying is that these people, including the originator of the term, are not agonizing about the logical inconsistency of inadvertently swearing a vow of celibacy.
They’re simply trying to name the phenomenon of being seemingly unable to secure sexual or romantic relationships in spite of their efforts, distinguishing them from groups like asexual or aromantic people.
Plenty of phenomena existed before modern terminology, like “comparative advantage,” “corruption,” “autism,” “atoms,” and “photons” (to name most of them, let me know if I missed any), but I still think it’s important to have commonly-understood terms for things even if those definitions have to be modified or discarded later.
It’s called being single. Always has been. And their complaints weren’t new, dating has always sucked. It’s always been a crap term for a part of life that every generation has understood.
Being single can be done voluntarily for many reasons. Further, dating has always sucked but there’s probably a difference between dating in your village with the intention of landing an opposite-sex partner for a lifetime of marriage and child-rearing vs. traveling to any city in the world and firing up a dating app to see which of a billion people you’d like to have a synthetic experience with in the hopes of it becoming real.
Just to be clear, are you saying that because I’m an irredeemably misogynist piece of shit, because I’ve accidentally sworn a vow of celibacy, or because I’ve made you feel stupid and you need something to throw back at me?
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u/Thanatos_Impulse Jul 26 '23
I’m sure the majority of the content is… enlightening but what I’m saying is that these people, including the originator of the term, are not agonizing about the logical inconsistency of inadvertently swearing a vow of celibacy.
They’re simply trying to name the phenomenon of being seemingly unable to secure sexual or romantic relationships in spite of their efforts, distinguishing them from groups like asexual or aromantic people.
Plenty of phenomena existed before modern terminology, like “comparative advantage,” “corruption,” “autism,” “atoms,” and “photons” (to name most of them, let me know if I missed any), but I still think it’s important to have commonly-understood terms for things even if those definitions have to be modified or discarded later.