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(11-06-2015, 10:45 AM)Vitamin C Wrote:(11-06-2015, 10:37 AM)Askier Wrote:(11-06-2015, 02:21 AM)PkThunda Wrote: It is because of this that I have to speak up and let people know that some language in regards to sex-work is not okay...
(11-06-2015, 10:20 AM)Hammersmith Wrote:(11-06-2015, 09:48 AM)Askier Wrote: Holy Snip Batman
I'm guessing you and Flynt didn't actually read the OP, since they explicitly say they don't want to stop using or restrict usage of the words, or force a OMG THE PC POLICE WILL CENSOR US, especially in an RP context.
They just to bring an awareness of how the words sit in a cultural context both in RP and RL usage and the impact usage of such word carries, consciously and unconsciously in the same contexts we've constructed around them. Â They're shitty words used in shitty contexts to make people feel shitty. Â The reasons behind their entrenchment into our language are complicated, historical, and terrible and frankly we'd be better off without them in the same way we've ditched racial and homo/transphobic slurs that also used to be commonplace in a 'Well call a spade a spade because that's what it is' way of thinking.
You and I disagree and I'm fine with that. That line there though, where the OP says its not okay is indicating, to me at least, a cause for concern. Why isn't it okay? Whom gets to determines which words are okay and not? If a word hurts someone's feelings, why should we get rid of it? If you get called "Four-eyes- and it hurts your feelings, does that mean we need to ban the words -four- and eyes- to make sure the insult can never happen again?
Look, you can sit there and insult me, and Flynt, (NOW there's someone I never thought I be paired with, lulz), but that won't change my view point. I don't care how people live their life. I want everyone to be able to live their live as they desire. Do what they enjoy Love who they love. But I do not agree with you that we should ditch all these words.Â
If you censor a word, you actually GIVE it power because its taboo and that, ironically, is counter-productive. Its like the Unforgivable Curses in Harry Potter. The mere fact they are "unforgivable" makes them even more menacing and ominous on top of the evil they can do. You take away the taboo of something, you remove a TON of its power. By exposing people to something, you actually lessen the power of the word because people aren't SHOCKED you used it, but rather can hear the word, process it, and can make a rational reply.
You might be taking Hammer's reply out of context, because he's not insulting you nor Flynt. I can understand how the vernacular might indicate that and perhaps he was exaggerating the posts made in a satirical manner to get his point across.
Needless to say, there ARE some words that should be ditched in favor of political correctness or atleast used in the contexts they were intended, like F*ggot, which to my understanding is just sticks bundled together. While the logic that using a word more often makes it less taboo sounds alright on paper, if I walked around labeling everything because I think it's okay, then I'm going to get stabbed. Culturally, and in modern society, we can't control what offends people but we should control how we offend people. Self restraint, basically.Â
Most people don't like the concept, but it's the same as saying, "Hey, I'm going to keep saying rape even if it triggers you because you should learn to restrain your feelings on my liberal use of it."
Sickity has the right of it. Â Not Using a word for Valid Reasons is no where near the same as say: Banning Tom Sawyer or 1984 from being read.
It's you not being an asshole by using shitty word choice in a shitty context. Â The words are still there, the words can still be used. Â Just with the understanding that there's a time and a place and Casual Use is not that time or place because these words carry too much weight to just be casually used for lulz PC is Bad M'Kay reasons.
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