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Anonymous
4/24/19, 9:27 PM
I'm not policing words I'm talking about the contexts of words. I aint a cop lmao
4/24/19, 9:27 PM
I liked the rimming and hope there would be more of such things in the future. The transition of memories is pretty interesting. I also like how he isnt dumbed down, an unfortunate all too common occurrence in my view.
Elm
4/24/19, 9:19 PM
The problem with using feelings as a metric is that it never stops changing, you can't please everyone. It literally depends on your mood, you cannot be objective with that. Everything can be an insult, it depends on a ton of factors that have very little to do with the word itself. You can be incredibly mean to someone without using a single "Bad Word", and people often are. Policing words is dumb.
Anonymous
4/24/19, 9:12 PM
Once a term has been used badly enough in life it takes on a context and becomes more than "just an innocent medical term," and for the record a lot of "innocent medical terms" have that context. The word "homosexual" is uncomfortable for some because it was used in the context of diagnosing gayness as a mental illness. What you're describing is the fluctuating nature of language and its kinda gonna happen whether you like it or not. That's just how language is.
Martin
4/24/19, 8:54 PM
just because the only way you've heard it was being used in a derogatory way. That's why it has this "sound" to you. It's still an innocent medical term, nothing more. I don't like that my vocabulary is abused by some people so I'm forced to refrain from using certain words and constantly have to find new terms which then are just abused again. Same will happen with POC, I'm sure.
Anonymous
4/24/19, 8:45 PM
What a hot story!
Anonymous
4/24/19, 8:43 PM
I feel like spastic is used more derogatorily than disabled though. It just sounds bad on its own, too.
Anonymous
4/24/19, 8:42 PM
"It’s only derogatory because some people used it in that way." ... Well yeah! Thats the historical context I'm talking about.
Martin
4/24/19, 8:35 PM
It's only derogatory because some people used it in that way. Same as with "disabled" or "spastic". First a neutral, innocent descriptive word until it became abused by people. And just because people are abusing it, everyone is forced to find a new "political correct" term. So we're all enslaved by the stupid, abusing people...
Anonymous
4/24/19, 8:30 PM
I've definitely seen some latino men use latinx and some latino men object to latinx so i understand that terminology is in flux, that is just the nature of language.