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I agree. The term "Monkey wrench" is problematic. The term has roots in racist, misogynistic and colonial practices. A much more inclusive term would be "simian type tool".

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We could actually turn this into a real paper, maybe even a thesis statement.

"Tool names and the inherent oppression in the names of same"

I mean... screwdriver? Slide-ruler? Nut-driver? Ball Peen Hammer? Gooseneck wrecking bar?

Get ChatGPT or some other ChatBot to write it up and submit it to some feminist-woke-whatever magazine, I'll bet you they'd publish it.

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ShouldnтАЩt it be тАЬsystemicтАЭ oppression?

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unconscious, inherent systemic oppression!

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Never mind the magazines - we can get this published in almost any peer reviewed journal these days.

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Sadly - that is probably true.

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Be careful what you wish for. It may get published and then some woke minister of wokeism somewhere with think it is a grand idea and implement policy based upon it. Wokeites elsewhere will become jealous of the first minister to use your paper and will then compete to see who cane push this the farthest into insane land.

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