"Wild" animals

Language has the power to shape how we think about all kinds of things. You see this criticism come up with mainstream news outlets (including purportedly liberal & leftist outlets) and how they frame their headlines - often in a way that minimizes U.S. cruelty and paints other countries as the bad guys, as the instigators. It also comes up in gender analysis, with a great deal of english words being "man"-something like "man hours" or "mailman" or many other things. Well, I've grown pretty uncomfortable with the way we talk about animals, and how the language we use helps build this idea of them as lesser, as something to be controlled, to be "domesticated" because these animals are "wild". You might consider alternative terms like "undomesticated" animals, but this is no better - it frames them in reference to our control over them. Similarly, we often use "People of Color" instead of "non-white" now, so that we're not describing others in relation to whiteness. I refer to "wild"…