• PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You actually seem to have got it.

    Here’s a better source that suggests that they are interested in changing birds named after people, rather than birds named after slurs. It’s linked in this article. I really hope that shames op. We need to be better.

    Whether or not those people were bigots, they were probably white and male. Same as the anatomists that named the lady parts.

    There’s just a tradition of the first person to scientifically describe a “thing” getting to name it.

    It’s not great, but people that get to travel the world describing species and knowing enough to scientifically describe lady parts, etc are not poor people, at least until post war science. They still would have been mostly white and male, but they wouldn’t have had to be as much independently wealthy.

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      The tradition of namin something after another person does not apply to anatomy. The tradition there is to use latin which describes its function, appearance and/or location in the body. Except the men who wanted to name women’s anatomy after themselves. Going as far as to make stuff up, and even name structures that weren’t part of the female reproductive organs but merely seemed like it.