Neological Abortions
Transphobia today is what Homophobia was 20 years ago.
Both of these words are propaganda deflection terms..
Yes. And both are also etymologically ridiculous. “Homophobia” literally means ‘fear of sameness’, or perhaps ‘same fear’. “Transphobia” means ‘across fear’, and is a bastardized hybrid mutt-word.
These neological abortions are typical of the calibre of minds that also produce such chimeras as “polyamory” and “sexology”—although both of these latter words identify real concepts, for which older, better words exist. I will be cruel and leave the crowd in suspense, so as to avoid casting more pearls here.
Disclaimer: Whereas Nietzsche was a doctor of philology, I am but an amateur.
Everywhere that slave-morality gains the ascendancy, language shows a tendency to approximate the significations of the words “good” and “stupid.”
Like him, I am not nice. I will admit that all the “gender” stuff is a nice theory, in the old-fashioned sense.
nice (adj.)
late 13c., "foolish, ignorant, frivolous, senseless," from Old French nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (from PIE root *ne- "not") + stem of scire "to know" (see science).