I’ve always hated this take especially considering how the music industry has a whole genre that specifically refers to women as bitches and no one is ever upset by it and women even dance and sing along to them.
People are in general overly sensitive to words online. One day it was suddenly faux pas to say “removed”. Sorry but why is anybody policing this? If I call someone removed, it was meant to be an insult.
I miss the Internet of decades prior, where it took at least a room temperature IQ to access it.
Ok, but you’ve done nothing to refute my statement or provide any additional information that’s remotely useful. Just slinging ineffective insults that fall pretty flat if I’m honest.
In terms of ableism, I guess that’s true to a degree. I definitely consider people of significantly lower intellect to be below me, but that’s not to say I don’t still treat them kindly and with respect until they’ve proven they don’t deserve it.
The same people who tell me removed is a bad word now will still casually drop moron or idiot and they’re synonyms. People decided removed was a bad word because it’s the one we were using, but now those same people use a synonym and tell me a word is off limits. All they’ve done is give the word even more weight.
People commonly insult stupidity in creative ways. Many forms of “stupidities” are mental illnesses. While you’re changing words around, you’re essentially still coincidentally insulting what can be considered disabilities, so in the end does it really make a difference? “Retard” isn’t a medical term for quite some time now, it is a pure insult. Medical field now says “intellectual disability”.
If I say “stop 'tarding around”, is it less insulting? What about saying “intellectually disabled”?
I never use the word myself (EDIT: … Except now), I just sometimes overthink stuff
I’ve always hated this take especially considering how the music industry has a whole genre that specifically refers to women as bitches and no one is ever upset by it and women even dance and sing along to them.
But say it online and ho boy now it’s a problem
I have always had a problem with it.
People are in general overly sensitive to words online. One day it was suddenly faux pas to say “removed”. Sorry but why is anybody policing this? If I call someone removed, it was meant to be an insult.
I miss the Internet of decades prior, where it took at least a room temperature IQ to access it.
When I call you an ableist shithead it is also meant to be an insult. You don’t really need to use slurs to do that, you fuckwad.
Ok, but you’ve done nothing to refute my statement or provide any additional information that’s remotely useful. Just slinging ineffective insults that fall pretty flat if I’m honest.
In terms of ableism, I guess that’s true to a degree. I definitely consider people of significantly lower intellect to be below me, but that’s not to say I don’t still treat them kindly and with respect until they’ve proven they don’t deserve it.
The same people who tell me removed is a bad word now will still casually drop moron or idiot and they’re synonyms. People decided removed was a bad word because it’s the one we were using, but now those same people use a synonym and tell me a word is off limits. All they’ve done is give the word even more weight.
People commonly insult stupidity in creative ways. Many forms of “stupidities” are mental illnesses. While you’re changing words around, you’re essentially still coincidentally insulting what can be considered disabilities, so in the end does it really make a difference? “Retard” isn’t a medical term for quite some time now, it is a pure insult. Medical field now says “intellectual disability”.
If I say “stop 'tarding around”, is it less insulting? What about saying “intellectually disabled”?
I never use the word myself (EDIT: … Except now), I just sometimes overthink stuff