@fissile @Daojoan
yeh that did occur to me. I do still wonder why that wording was chosen - it's basically bait, whether intentionally or not. One of those cases where usages-of-art are highly problematic for a lay audience. (E.g. once got into a roaring argument w/ex-SO over me using 'personhood' as it's used in social anthropology, to describe someone's degree of agency in society. She insisted on parsing it as a judgement I was making about those individuals' moral worth.)
@FeralRobots @Daojoan I mean, in the original post, it's a quote. So I think for the original work that is being quoted, it is probably the appropriate term.
In the post that is doing the quoting, I don't know. Could be as you say and someone uses it on purpose, because it can be misunderstood, but it is also possible that that person is not aware of the problem.