Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"?

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s like “female”. Nothing wrong with it per se, especially in a biological conversation, but it’s more used with animals.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s a bit different. Female at least refers to a real biological trait (or at least collection of traits). As a scientist I use the word female in my work all of the time, and frankly I’m not sure what alternatives to it even exist.

    Bloodline is like… weird racist antiquated European ideas about ancestry that are more or less completely unscientific and wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever once heard it used in a scientific context.

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• Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t like making presumptions but I’ve heard it from all sorts of people

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe a cultural or regional thing? Or is it related to a hobby or something? I can’t think of a single time I’ve heard this phrase in normal conversation.

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    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I found it on this very lemmy community a couple days back. It’s why I posed this question

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    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Possibly? Or perhaps some people learned it trough movies and just don’t have a better word for it?

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