What if we stopped referring to our lovers as "partner" (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by Owl@hexbear.net to c/main@hexbear.net

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and instead called them "pardner"

(I thought this was an important enough thought to post on main.)

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[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

tbh I've never like the term "partner." I know it's supposed to be sort of gender neutral, but it always sounds so corporate and lacking in intimacy whenever someone says it. I'd much prefer if we used "lover." Much more beautiful of a term.

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Same. I understand the need for a gender neutral word, but the world we are trying to build is based on love, passion and art. I don't want brutalism to permeate the language when nicer, more thoughtful words exist that people won't object to.

It almost feels like a solution looking for a problem in the way that someone identified the fact that "husband" and "wife" can be problematic, but instead went towards the clinical instead of the soulful

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