Idioms to Say that Two Things or Situations are Totally Different
A very different animal A completely different animal An entirely different animal You can easily write essays. But writing a speech is an entirely different animal. You can understand drug addiction. But porn addiction is a completely different animal. A different ballgame A new ballgame A whole new ballgame Totally different ballgame [completely different from what one is used to] I am a teacher, but teaching your own child is a new ballgame. Living in a different country is a new ballgame for most teenage students. We used to travel du…
Vocabulary Related to Gender Identity
Bi-gendered One who has a gender identity that involves both male and female genders. Cisgender One whose gender identity matches the one assigned at birth. Generally used to denote those who are not transgender. Cissexism Attitude and practice that prefers or glorifies cisgender supremacy Gender identity The the internal sense of being a male, female or any other. It may not go with the gender identity visible to the others.
Woke vocabulary
Woke is a slang term that came int to the mainstream by 2016-17 (First use 1940s) popularized by the black community. 'Stay woke' means to be aware of and actively attentive to the social, racial and other injustices. Woke language is 'politically correct' language which is not very easy to accomplish all the time. But today the word is co opted and we see its use more often to criticize the woke culture signifying pretentiousness and cultural elitism. Some collocations of 'woke' are woke culture, woke people, stay wo…