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>>GavCo+(OP)
I'm a non-native English speaker. What's wrong with screeching?

>>aflag+jN
"Screeching" in english (at least North American english) is typically a gendered derogative. You generally wouldn't say a man was "screeching", not unless you also wanted to imply he was effeminate.

By avoiding the word, you avoid insinuating the target's gender is part of the issue, and/or avoid insinuating that the target is effeminate when they "should not" be, i.e. you avoid homophobia.

>>DanHul+aO
Either I am completely out of touch, or this comment is nonsense.

A screech is a high pitched sound, nothing more unless otherwise indicated.

>>lotsof+bQ
There's definitely associations embeded with words that we apparently have measurement systems for.

It'd be really cool if someone familiar with what I'm linking to below could comment, especially regarding the word screech and its related forms!

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1720347115

https://github.com/chainsawriot/sweater

https://kawine.github.io/blog/nlp/2019/09/23/bias.html