[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Lady Dynamitez

I'm taking an example which are rape jokes. Ironically, I hear the exact same song "geez it's just a word/joke, I don't mean anything with it, you're easily offended you have no sense of humor!" whenever it's pointed out but with a little bit of googling you'll see it's actually studied and proven that rape jokes do decrease people's views on how serious rape is and increase the blame the victims face and so much more. It is how men (and women too of course; many women still live in the idea that they owe sex to their partners and pressured and manipulated into false consent is normal) normalize rape and sexual assault. Now rape jokes are much more serious than the term whore used but it's an extreme example I took to help you understand where we stand.

That's why you shouldn't use it as an example. You wrote 7 lines equating rape jokes to the word used for pure shock value and 1 to say even you don't believe that. This is very insensitive to rape victims and a very low way of making your point coming accross.

I think the whole "you're offended too easily" idea is because you've gotten used to all the offensive terms/jokes that when the people who it affects do finally speak up, you get pissed off because to you it's nothing and you can't get in the shoes of those who it actually hurts. It's not too long ago when I didn't think blackface was bad in any way but boy did I change my mind about that!

The understanding of a word depends on the context it's being used. I find it rather easy to notice if someone calling me the f word, a "homo" and even the words being discussed here (after Chibi-chan kidnaped the subject in order to discuss semantics... Nothing like a whinning mid-class white girl from a rich country to discuss what opression is) is doing that as a tong in cheek joke or because they want me dead (and oh boy, I bet I know more than you about society wanting me dead because of the minority group I'm a part of)

There's other terms you can use. Attention seeker isn't different from the intention you are using attention whore with, only one letter longer AND isn't degrading to women. How come is it that you are all so keen to grasp on the term 'whore'? I have my guesses honestly and it's got a lot to do with Chibi-Chan's point

The thing is whore, bitch, slut, etc. are STILL very much in use to describe women or prostitutes. It isn't a past thing like left-handed being evil or so. It still exists.

Actually, those words are very used by pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~ people on a very different way it is used when you are beating a woman or shaming her for being sexual. Probably due to the fact that gay men being seen as effeminate, trans women being seemed as "men wearing female outfits" and taking the words for themselves seemed more productive than crying over it being used against them.

Some words are offensive and strong and they always will be. Changing the meaning doesn't do much. You don't go around yelling the N word and saying let's not ban that word, let's overly use it fuck those who are or have been physically attacked because of racism and the origin of that word!

Hmmm... Nope. Some black rappers (I believe Jay Z is among them) already said they use the n word as an way of empty it of its power. Those kind of stuff doesn't happen overnight, but (as someone who doesn't live on a english speaking country, and that must be taken in consideration) it does look like the older generation (who got to know the word through agression) and the younger generation (who got to know the word through pop culture produced by black people) have far different understandings of what it mean. The Slut Walk comes from the same idea.
But that doesn't mean I will use the n word anyway, even because the way it was used as an agression is (as far as I know as a non native) far different from "whore", consindering there are people still alive who had a very real and justified fear of being lynched after just hearing the word shout at them.

I would love to see this same level of commotion every time there's a racist comment around here about japanese/east asian people, or when there are homophobic/transphobic comments about Timmy or Licco.