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Birds are great (lemmy.ca)
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[–] 45 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Some birb names have recently been changed, but it was more about reversing racial stereotypes. The tits and bananaquits got to stay

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    And what about the cocks?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I thought it was less about racial stereotypes, and more about this big recent push across multiple fields to not have people's names attached to things. Right now (or recently) it's about oviducts v Fallopian tubes or the bulbourethral gland v Cowperis gland in biology, which I'm familiar with. I think there was a post and comment thread about birds specifically in the last few days on Lemmy; same thing with people's names being removed.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    From what I've seen, a lot of the motivation to not have peoples' names attached to things is because people have things attached to them (such as racism). Not saying that's every case, but I'm sure that's a significant factor behind the general push.

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