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queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoIt’s a slur.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s good to be sensitive to the concerns of minority groups, and the women on .ml don’t want to see that word.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do they know the word exists? Words are meant to describe ideas, if you ban a word the idea isn’t going anywhere. People will just use other words to describe the same idea. Or they will just use the word, it will be removed but everyone will understand the idea.
Really, I don’t think there’s anything more ridiculous and pathetic than banning words.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
But we don’t have to see it, and there’s value in that. Also, people don’t really use the word literally because it gets removed. Normal people get the idea that they aren’t supposed to say it, so they stop. It works.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
speak for yourself
Nelots@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Is dick a slur?
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
No, and cracker isn’t a slur either.
Nelots@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It is though. Cracker is used as an insult exclusively against (usually poor) white people. I can only hope you know that, so what sarcastic point are you trying to make? Are you saying dick was a bad comparison to bitch, or are you saying dick is actually a slur the same as cracker? Or something else?
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Poor white people, they have it so hard 😔
You can’t be racist against white people.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Dick is as much a slur as bitch, and are used in the same context about the same people. They are neither male nor female slurs.
Wolf@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
What if you are referring specifically to a female canine or Meredith Brooks?
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Never really thought of it as a slur. Like a general-purpose slur against women? I don’t really agree, it’s in common parlance, at least in my area. I’ve never found it offensive, personally. Generally when people I know use it, it’s meant in a positive, I guess you could say “reclaimed” fashion. Plus, there are much worse slurs that are not censored.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure ml sensors all slurs
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
not sure how to test this without just publicly posting a big list of slurs lol. Anyway, it’s just odd to me since I don’t consider bitсһ a slur. It’s on the exact same level of rudeness as bastard.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s not about rudeness, it’s about women being a repressed minority and so by definition the words used to denigrate them are slurs.