Find someone who is funny and not a hack like dice clay or the kind who just thinks bad words and trolling is funny? This isn’t 1993 anymore, which so many of these arguments seem to be rooted in.
Yet.
I’ll look later. I’m supposed to be working. Someone is standing next to me (wearing a mask) watching me play on my phone and waiting for me to finish. If he only knew the foolishness I was up to.
Just gonna share my apparently rare position that words themselves are not automatically bad without context, and therefore should not be automatically censored whether its bleeping audio, converting to asterisks/underscores, or just deleting posts. Its kind of amazing to me that this is standard practice across a wide variety of fields.
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Be better if America turned it into a flavorless word. We have done that with other words which were highly offensive.
You’re on the wrong slope, dawg. We’re talking about slurs, not profanity. I feel like you still don’t understand how saying “Boris Johnson is acting like a ■■■■■ could be taken as especially demeaning to women, or why saying “Boris Johnson is acting like a prick” is not the equal and opposite of that. (It’s because the owners of only one of those body parts is the group historically most maligned politically, socially, economically, and sexually).
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In America! Not here!
Did you watch Game of Thrones? When Bronn says to Tyrion, of Joffrey, that “There’s no cure for being a ■■■■■ do you think he’s suggesting that Joffrey is unmanly or possessed of stereotypically negative feminine traits?
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Yes? Like, the unmanliness of Joffrey is a pretty major theme. He gets completely emasculated by his grandpa in front of the council when he’s scolded with “No true king has to say, ‘I am the king.’”
Umm yes? Are you joking here?
Are you thinking of, like, “idiot” here? Or what did you have in mind?
You’re just talking about a completely unrelated scene as though that says something about the scene in question. That scene, if memory serves, is prompted by Tyrion discovering that Joffrey has taken to torturing women. ■■■■■■ there means ‘viciously violent and sadistic person’.
No. No, I am not joking about the word having a completely different sense and connotation outside America.
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I think most of these insults would be acceptable here:
This includes Marty from the moderation thread, but I think there’s a deeper common theme here. It’s a power struggle having something to do with American cultural hegemony and a perception on the part of some posters of pro-American bias by some community members and mods. I’m not sure where to go from there, but I don’t know if there’s much else to be gained by discussing this one specific word.
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I guess the point I am making is that slurs and profanity are two sides of the same coin.
Ass, bastard, shit, Jesus, damn, even fuck is used more now than in the past and has been desensitized somewhat.
This word has the negative connotation that being not male, or being an effeminate male is undesirable or in some way unwelcome in society, so I’d prefer if you didn’t use it. I’m sure you understand.
If you’re just going to troll, at least do it somewhere else.
It’s not like I troll every thread here. I’m making a point.
It’s a point you know to be stupid, because you’re deliberately not using the right definition of emasculation.