#semantics?

Confession: Mages aren't enslaved. They're forcefully imprisoned, oppressed, brutalized, yes, but they aren't enslaved. Slavery is the buying and selling of people. The closest thing to slavery that happens to mages is getting reassigned to different circles, but since goods don't change hands in exchange, it's not slavery. Please stop throwing the word slavery around to try and make mages seem the most oppressed. It's not a competition. Lots of people have it rough in Thedas without being slaves, it's okay.

With all the other discriminatory "isms" (racism, sexism, etc.) there are multiple categories...racism can be against any race, sexism against men, women, and any trans people. for the purpose of clearing up what I just said, sexism against women is not called "womanism" it's just sexism. A better example here would be to say that sexism against women is not called "feminism"...in fact, that is quite the opposite. Ableism (or disablism) is the only term like this where there is no gray area (or very little). There are mixed-race people, all sorts of gender identities, but with disability...you either HAVE a disability(ies) or you don't, So which is the right word?