(11-06-2015, 03:58 AM)V Wrote:(11-06-2015, 03:53 AM)McBeefâ„¢ Wrote: Because regardless of your intent, that's how others will interpret it.
This is the crux of my argument: laissez faire word choice is not practical. Effective communication demands not only knowing what words mean, but knowing how they will be heard.
Yes, and the vast majority.Â
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View prostitute as a non offensive descriptor. For many, it's the only non offensive way to describe someone who has sex for money that they know.Â
Thus, my argument from the start that this is not a slur. Because almost no one views or understands it as such.