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Martin Fischer said "Whenever ideas fail, men invent words" - thoughts?

Asked by Simone_De_Beauvoir (39052points) July 26th, 2010

This quote challenges some of my philosophies directly because a lot of the words explaining my identities and ways of looking at life came to be because new words like ‘queer’ ‘gender non-conforming’ ‘intersex’ and so forth were, so to speak, invented. Personally, I do not believe this was because any of my ideas failed (or did they?) but because some of the world’s ideas failed for me. Furthermore, in creating words (or using words relatively newly created), I am reproducing new ideas but a part of me is continuously intrigued by this saying because I wonder if, instead of using new words, I just have to say ‘this and this doesn’t matter or makes no sense or shouldn’t have labels or don’t worry about people’ like many in the tattooed world say (making generalizations…but it just so happens that when we hang with tattooists, even if they don’t know what ‘transgender’ means, they get that someone like me could dislike the gender binary and end up saying something like ‘man, who gives a shit, just be who you are, you are beautiful’)...anyway…

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