# Comments on The Boyfriend's Introduction to Feminism

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**Category:** Elliot Temple\
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**Created:** [September 25, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/comments-on-the-boyfriends-introduction-to-feminism/2108 "2025-09-25T19:11:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![anonymous105](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@anonymous105](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/anonymous105)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/comments-on-the-boyfriends-introduction-to-feminism/2108/582 "2026-09-12T05:28:30Z")

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> **I hid my reply as well, IDK if that's a good idea or not but I'll match your style.**
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> > There’s a context? That context belongs to a term? How does a context belong to a term? I think if a term had context then that’s what’s true about it. I think I gotta look up the word context. It seems like it means situation. Context makes sense to me somewhat intuitively. It’s like if one is within the context of “my bad” then it would basically mean “mistake”.
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> Yeah, context is kind of like situation. Context refers to the specifics (whatever they might be) of a given situation.
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> > [@Dface](#):
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> > I think “it” refers to the term “my bad”. I think if that’s true then when…Wait now after looking at my reply, “it” refers to the word “bad”. Not the term “my bad”. So you could then say instead, ‘my mistake’. I think that would basically mean the same thing.
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> Right, “it” refers to the word “bad” because that is what you asked about. You specifically asked what “bad” means.
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> But, “bad” in the context of the phrase “my bad” has a specific meaning that is a bit different than it is in other contexts. So I was still talking about “my bad” — but I was specifically talking about what the word “bad” means in that phrase.
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> Yes, “my bad” is basically an informal way of saying “my mistake.”
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> > Idk what “basically” means. It’s often used in discussions. I think saying ‘something basically means’ is the same as saying there’s additional things left out. There’s more parts to the whole. Are those other parts not as essential?
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> “Basically” means you are simplifying a concept a bit. Or generalizing it. You’re reducing an idea down to its “basic” version.
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> In the context of my usage above, “basically” is also kind of like a hedging word. It is not necessarily saying there are things left out. But there _might_ be, because I’m keeping things simple. Some nuanced complexity might be lost.
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> It is saying something like “this may not be entirely precisely technically 100% correct in all possible contexts, but for most purposes in this conversation it is close enough that we can treat it as correct.”

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