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| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: DrG on June 11, 2020, 03:38:32 pm ---I suppose "pimp" and "bitch" are out of the question. --- End quote --- Maybe I'm just an ignorant 'Aussie'... but I do NOT understand what you said, or why, or to whom??? |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: mfro on June 11, 2020, 02:59:16 pm ---Btw. words (and facts behind them) don't go away by just some people not using them for unrelated purpose. You just leave the (innocent) words to them that use them badly. --- End quote --- Very very true. One example is in schools, where kids with significant intellectual challenges started to be called "special" rather than the previous unkind names. The kids rapidly adopted "special" as a denigration, pronouncing it "spessshuuuul" in a sing-song tone. Another example is that I showed my daughter how easy it would be to use any of her forenames as a swear word, simply by placing it in a suitable sentence and using suitable emotion when saying the words in the sentence. |
| DrG:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on June 11, 2020, 03:42:53 pm --- --- Quote from: DrG on June 11, 2020, 03:38:32 pm ---I suppose "pimp" and "bitch" are out of the question. --- End quote --- Maybe I'm just an ignorant 'Aussie'... but I do NOT understand what you said, or why, or to whom??? --- End quote --- I don't know whether you are either ignorant or an Aussie but I am sensitive to your needs for understanding and your well being as we are all wonderful and beautiful people. The first term I used is refers to a man who controls prostitutes and arranges clients for them, taking part of their earnings in return. The second term is a disparaging adaption of the word's original meaning of a female animal (usually a dog). Together, I was using the terms in my response to communicate my opinion that the thread is lacking serious merit and so I was being sarcastic...marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt. Irony sometimes means that the truth turns out to be something very different than it appears to be. The thread appears to be a serious attempt to change established technical terms to politically correct terminology. So, I was mocking what I feel is an astonishingly moronic and mind-numbing idea by offering terms that are usually considered to be politically incorrect in most official contexts and to a much wider audience. I hope this helps. |
| Gyro:
What about Dominant and Submissive, I can't see anyone getting offended by that. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission (... Shame, because they would actually convey the required meaning quite well). |
| engrguy42:
So I have a question: For those of us who've been around for a while, when did it happen that people started with the attitude "the entire world has to worry about protecting MY feelings and NEVER do or say anything that might even slightly offend me"? I mean, back in the old days it was "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me". Y'know, the kind of attitude that intelligent, grown up adults would try to take, and teach young kids about. Learn to deal with life and put it in perspective. But now it's all about "likes" and emotion and ego, not rationality. And apparently the worst thing you can do is to offend someone. WTF? Somehow we're supposed to know what might offend any of the 7.6 billion people on the planet. It's insane. Where have the adults gone? We're supposed to know (or care) what words offend any random person? WTF? It must have been in the 80's or something. But it seems like now everyone has bought into the insanity. We're doomed. EDIT: BTW, DrG, the "pimp/bitch" was hilarious. :-DD |
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