I'm not arguing with you about this - I agree that men are trash. however, this is a leftist forum, not a liberal one. class is an important concept - we want the public to become conscious of class. we can't be effective if we continuously shoot ourselves in the foot by using liberalized terms. the whole reason that people misunderstand class to mean "social group" is because the Marxists were intentionally and methodically driven out of academia. Marx's social theory became quietly discouraged until a new sociology was developed that did not mention its own founding principles.

liberals have spent plural centuries reinterpreting classes as merely social groups, pretending sociology can be separated from political economy. this process is called recuperation, in which the radical potency of ideas, movements, and historical figures are drained away, until things which once threatened capitalism become celebrated by its staunchest adherents. recognize recuperation when it's happening and resist it. the alternative is to just embrace liberalism.