Just saying this because I recently got into flossing, but my gums still bled the next time I went to the dentist and dental assistant said it was because I wasn't massaging my gums as brushed my teeth.
Gaslight your dentist by getting your teeth cleaned at a rival dentistry before your teeth cleaning with them. Watch them scramble to come up with reasons your gums are bleeding other than not flossing.
Nobody thinks you're a bad person if you attempt to fulfill those two ideas, but they might be convinced otherwise if you continue with business as usual
When confronted with the idea that you have been using an outdated, harmful term for a group of people, your first instinct should be to attempt to understand and remove that term from your vocabulary, not justify your usage of the term.
I have to consolidate email addresses for work and some of these are truly bizarre-- looking at you, whoever decided to have their username as 'toepix'