Eliott Dumoulin is a journalist who covers Canada for the French newspaper Le Monde. In this article, he tries to explain to readers back home what’s going on.

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    3 days ago

    Whether it’s been appropriated or not by other cultures

    Uh? Englishmen appropriated the English language now?

    here in Canada it is misogynistic and is interpreted so by nearly every woman here

    And as such I strongly discourage anyone to use that word in Canada. The thing is, this is not Canada, it’s Lemmy and lots of people commenting here (me included) are not from the Americas. And they were pretty clear in what way they meant it. You don’t have to become comfortable with the word but you must understand it doesn’t mean the same in other places and you have no right to impose on them the meaning it has in your country.