You can be houseless but not homeless, and still need help with your housing.
There are a lot of these political correct terms that are being used more cynically by now, however I'd prefer to not open that can of worms.
What we call things matter: as even slight changes in wording affect how people perceive things - so great care should be use when deciding what vernacular we should adopt generally.
(If anyone knows more, feel free to correct me)
A disease particular is from a foreign agent: bactierial/fungal/viral/prionic/parasitic.
a condition or disorder is an integral structure on awry, or rewritten (by chemicals or by viewing data) to go awry: the key distinction between this and disease being that there is no other 'lifeform' (yes - include viruses for simplicity's sake).
so alcohol use disorder vs alcoholism reflects a more accurate state of reality. (there is no bacteria/fungus/prion/parasite/virus that is the CAUSE of alcoholism - a chemical rewrote your brain which has been damaged to potentially require alcohol to survive).
the push back I've encountered had nothing to do with being 'correct'/'sensible' and had everything to do with protecting the feelings of people suffering from AUD - which is not a worthwhile goal to coddle people with fluffy medical terms in the aims of removing responsibility from one's self...
... sorry for the rant :)
Further context: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2701140/
Yes you can be houseless but not homeless, but you can also be homeless and not houseless. It's an utterly stupid distinction predicated on an intentionally incorrect, close, and literal minded reading of the term, done for political reasons.
A sanitation engineer sounds like someone that knows how to safely build sewers or run a sewage processing plant. i.e. something you'd have a formal education and be accredited for.
With respect for honest hardworking janitors everywhere, that's not the same thing as minor plumbing or ensuring that places are properly cleaned. Neither task is engineering.
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“I understand that you’re a neurosurgeon.”
(Bert grins.) “…No; I’m a barber. But a lot of people make that mistake.”
Brand Evangelist (Marketing)
Outplacement consultant (someone who comes in to fire people)
Flueologist (Chimneysweep)
Loss prevention officer (Security guard)
Waste removal engineer (trashman/trashwoman)
https://www.businessinsider.com/recruiting-firm-shares-the-5...
To use a bold example, there's a difference between telling your client they are "overweight" and telling them they are a "fat ass".
I would naïvely think that “fat arse” is vulgar or insulting enough (or at the very least way too informal) not to use it with someone you’re not familiar with. This has nothing to do with political correctness.
You can ruin some people’s day by calling them ginger. I would expect a psychologist to be sensitive to this sort of things (do no harm, indeed), but that’s not a good reason to make everyone stop using that word.
A huge percentage of Doctor's are abusive scumbags. Everything you hear about medical ethics, they do the opposite.
They are bigoted, and emotionally abusive, gaslighting monsters, who stubbornly refuse to self reflect.
Enforcing others to change their language is mostly about power. Any feel good explanations of why it needs to change is justification for executing that power.
There are some that just mean well, but even then, the method is questionable.
Children living with their parents don't own houses, but they aren't homeless either. Or adults for that matter. For a few years in college I lived in a spare room in my grandparent's house. I had no house of my own, but I certainly felt welcome and wasn't homeless by any means.