@TakoAlice8 The problem isn’t that women are special. It’s more that women are the exception. So, we come up with words like “giant” to designate large people, but then we start to show female giants, and we need a way to designate them, so we create the term “giantess”. The problem isn’t the language. It’s the way people use it. Because people are too lazy to type 4 extra letters “giant” gets used for big folks regardless of gender. Then we begin to label people that do correctly say “giantess” as sexist and insult them for speaking properly. It’s somewhat amazing to me because I’d get the same label if I started writing “men” regardless of gender so I could avoid typing 2 more letters. It’s not exceptionalism so much as laziness and political correctness run amok.
I’d suggest that within this community if nowhere else, the word “giant” be used exclusively to refer to males of size and “giantess” be used to refer to females of size. Also, any time someone doesn’t use the correct terms they be politely corrected.
@Olo Thank you for educating me. I have been wondering if I should refer to the keyword “giant” when referring to a tiny woman with a man, so you’ve actually cleared that up for me.
If I might expand this conversation a bit: are there terms for tinies beyond gender labels? As I wrote; I do personally refer to giants and giantesses, but we do seem to be sorely lacking at the other end of the size spectrum, at least as far as I know. The gap in my knowledge would be
Giant = giant man
Giantess = giant woman
Man = normal sized man
Woman = normal sized woman
? = tiny man
? = tiny woman
Any help would be appreciated.
LOL!
