Has anyone noticed the use of the word "partner" instead of husband/wife? Maybe I am crazy but I see that online as well as hear that on tv. It just seems like another thing where the vast majority of people have to change something that most see as normal/common to accommodate a few.
That kind of reminds me of an actress who was speaking at the college graduation at a women's college and told the women that they can be anything they wanted, achieve anything they wanted, or marry any man they wanted. This was in 05 so the attacks on her weren't many but a gay group did attack her for not including gays in they marrying part. Somebody on the radio said that people are free to live how they want but the fact of the matter is that heterosexuality is the norm in society, and to act like it isn't is absurd.
I'm a very much live and let live person, but I do find it ridiculous today with the whole diversity/inclusion obsession that we have pretend that small percentages of people make up a much larger amount or have to ignore basic reality.
Leftists are not being forced to use this terminology. They are adopting it willingly and enthusiastically as a pledge of allegiance to leftist orthodoxy. It's a virtue signal as well, to be sure, but that's only in public. At the dinner table with family, where there is no social validation to be harvested, using radical leftist terminology is a direct challenge against you.
And just as you've flagged these people in your mind as having succumbed to leftist indoctrination, they have flagged you, too, as existing outside of the hivemind. They know that when this conflict goes hot, you will not be on their side.