I looked up “weaker” in the actual real-life Webster’s Thesaurus on my bookshelf, and there is no reference for weaker. There are however, entries for Weak, Weaken, Weakling, and Weakness, none of which draw a reference to anything even remotely feminine in nature.
So to the asshole who I won’t bother linking to who wrote the diatribe on how this thesaurus.com find shouldn’t be surprising to women because ““Weaker sex” is a perfectly good synonym for women as a whole, and has been used for centuries” - you can eat it. The phrase ‘The weaker sex” hasn’t been acceptable to use for 40 years, my friend. Saying that reference in thesaurus.com is no big deal would be like typing the word “nigger” in the search box and expecting a reference to black people. COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.
Thesaurus.com isn’t the urban dictionary - it’s something we use to teach present and future generations how to properly use the English language, and as such it should NOT have any outdated sexist references to women.
