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>are very important in sociology

No, they are very important to sociologists who also happen to be into women's studies. Pretending all sociologists go along with that is dishonest.

>and were coined in large part by sociologists looking for a way to describe social phenomenon that they'd observed.

No they were not, see the rest of the thread.

>but when sociologists and academics use them

Which is relevant to lay-persons using them here on this forum and then being told they are wrong when they are not wrong?

>I'm sad to see that steveklabnik has been downvoted so much on this board for saying something that is so very correct.

I suspect the downvotes were more due to the way he told people their correct use of a term is incorrect, simply because there is a second correct use of that term.