The word can have swearing but not genderisation which might be offensive (mother) nor sexual dominance (motherfucker). Nor, other possibly offensive connotations. It seems that the word is commonplace and people won’t stop using it, so an alternative to the word may be useful. But the problem with alternatives like “mochafucker”, is that people might not use them unless they carry a meaning that’s attention grabbing in some way.
Upvoting because this is a a true “no stupid questions” post.
So… I think you need to look into the social and cognitive nature of swear words. Vsauce has a pretty good primer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7dQh8u4Hc
I think you also need to let go of the desire to be better than common culture, and/or the desire to engineer a better culture from an external perspective. People are gross and messy, imprecise and reckless. It’s what makes us interesting, motherfucker.
AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Are you looking for an inoffensive insult?
FUsername@feddit.de 1 year ago
…or for an insult so accurately aiming at the person to be insulted like pissing through a key hole from a 11.5 ft distance.