Sureness of `lesbian`

[reneroth]

homosexual:

homosexual may be insensitive, use gay, gay man, lesbian, gay person/people instead

lesbian:

Don’t use lesbian, it’s profane

[seanohue]

This raises the question -- what is the source for deciding if something is maybe insensitive vs. profane, etc.?

[reneroth]

I would go with the recommendations of well-established human rights organizations instead of trying to come up with my own ways: The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation does not see lesbian as an offensive term, and indeed supports it use as a noun, replacing the clinical term homosexual

[seanohue]

@RRorg That sounds like a good source to use. Should we try to find sources to include for other terms as well? That might be another issue. Perhaps there could even be a super-verbose flag to ask alex to cite its sources.

[wooorm]

There already is such a flag (-w, --why), but there aren’t many sources yet! Plus, glaad is already used, but please add more sources!

This issue in particular is caused by a mismatch between retext-profanitites and retext-equality. Thanks for noticing. I’ll deal with that somewhere soon this week!

[seanohue]

@wooorm Ah, thanks. I haven't had a chance to look at this project in depth but I'll try to find some time to contribute sources.

[wooorm]

I'd love that!