• unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is not me changing the context of the discussion.

    We are taking an idiom that has been historically used to harm people, and deconstructing it.

    You were deconstructing the idiom, and in doing so, you were erasing the context.

    The comment that initially invoked the idiom employed it as a reference to sex work, following the original usage of the idiom, which is understood stigmatically.

    I raised an alarm, and indeed, an exceedingly mild one, but instead of meeting my remarks on their merits, you preferred to engage in pedantry and virtue signaling, by attacking a straw man.

    More, no one sells one’s body, taken as the “literal phrase”.

    You can’t do it. You can sell a car, a house, the shirt off your back, but everyone has exactly one body through life. I have mine and you have yours.

    It is not particularly meaningful to analyze which labor is described accurately versus not by the phrase of the idiom, because the phrase has no coherent literal meaning. Hence, the phrase is understood only idiomatically.