Which standards are we to abandon exactly?
Surely, the word in contention in this thread is not the only standard you have a problem with, correct?
Keep debating which words we can and can’t use to have conversations while everyone else has conversations with meaning.
I don’t expect anyone here to agree. I don’t care. (I care enough to express my opinion, though).
You have a point. I have thought while reading various threads that the conversation simply has no meaning because no one has used the word cunt, it’s a pity.
Feel free to share any meaningful conversation you saw online that is using the word cu*t. I’m sure some of us would be interested in seeing how it’s done right.
Thank you for the clarification.
You wouldn’t get it.
I never was much of a fan of “If you can’t ban everything, then you can’t ban anything.”
Objection/opinion noted.
As someone else has said,
It isn’t obvious that using gendered slurs as non-gendered slurs in no way removes the gendered baggage they bring along with them?
I think trying to hold everyone to their own individual standards, instead of a general set of standards ,would cause most, if not all ,of the mods to quit.
Wondering what the actual quality of discussion here is like, in terms of discussing race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
So, your “while everyone else has conversations with meaning” is not based on actual knowledge of the conversations going on here?
Read some old threads. They get really nasty.
We’ve grown away from that.
Because, we’re adults. Not teenaged boys.
Unfortunately those are the “good old days” to far too many posters.
I mean we could worry less about political correctness and discuss how like the top 10% control 50% spending/investment in this country. That’s actually where most voters and non-voters (who aren’t represented here) are feeling. I am guessing most posters here are closer to the 10% than the rest.
Yes, and it had nothing to do with the word cunt or any other slur as I noted at the time,
This. Patriarchy is a thing and having a dick is cool, and often being a dick is considered cool by some. Being/having women’s parts is never cool. It’s weak, inferior, smelly etc.
I don’t like any of it. I won’t claim I don’t ever use some of those words, but I don’t make it a habit. A couple of them I don’t use at all. I really don’t consider myself overly sensitive. But its always easy to call other people sensitive when it’s not your ox being gored.
Oooo, how about, “shrill?”
I don’t remember if I’ve seen that particular term modded, but that is a term that is often used in a misogynistic way.