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TopicWhy is "unhoused" preferred to "homeless?"
sadib100
09/20/22 4:06:10 AM
#49:


Doe posted...
CE is weirdly reactionary about this.

Based on a quick Google search (which evidently few in this topic have attempted), terms like "unhoused" have been proposed because it dodges stigma that has collected on the word "homeless" over time and attempts to shift perspective towards unhoused people to be more sympathetic, to recognize all people deserve to be housed, and to acknowledge that houselessness is a temporary and not a defining feature of a person.

I saw it compared to the changing of "gender identity disorder" to "gender dysphoria", a renaming that aimed to challenge the idea that a person's identity is defective for their gender not conforming to the roles and presentation society expects of their sex.
What a meaningless post. You attempted to explain something that we all understood. We're discussing how that new word doesn't actually do that.

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