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What was the goal in being a jerk about this?
Are you going to ask the same question to the dude making unfounded accusations of queerphobia?
I see a difference between being potentially incorrect about something and willfully being a jerk.
ETA: rereading it now the other person definitely shows smugness that didn’t register when I read it the first time, even though it’s not like it’s hidden.
Sorry for being a pest that lacks reading comprehension :)
I think the goal was to refute the false dichotomy by highlighting its absurdity through contrast with a modern definition. By being angry or a jerk about it, I think it reinforces the point that the idea (the false dichotomy of the meaning of the word) is as deserving of ridicule as the people who espouse it.