bart_calendar explains insults
... insults are by their nature insulting. They are not meant to be nice. And, if you use the English language any realistic insult will be offensive to someone. (Yes, you could be completely politically correct and call someone a "Dirty orange!" - but would that really be an effective insult?)
Just think about the insults we use (or that you use) and try to find some group that wouldn't be offend by it.
"Bitch" - totally misogynist.
"Whore" and any variant - slut shaming.
"Douche" - You are implying that something that goes into a vagina is by definition a bad thing, which is gynophobic and misogynist. If your justification is that douches are "useless" then you are clearly a hygienist who doesn't care about whether or not you are insensitive to the needs of women who have that not so fresh feeling.
"Fucker" - slut shaming.
"Mother Fucker" - both slut shaming and insensitive to existing and historic tribal and indigenous cultures where this may have been ritualistically important.
"Asshole" - Body snarking, triggering for people suffering from prostate cancer.
"Cock", "Dick", etc.. - Completely misandrist.
"Cunt" - self explanatory.
"Hipster" - classist.
"Cock sucker" - simultaneously homophobic, slut shaming and misogynist; a full trifecta!
"Bastard" - slut shaming (to the dude's mother), misandrist and insensitive to the difficulties that children from single family homes have to overcome.
"Goat fucker" - anti-Welsh.
"Idiot", "Moron" etc.. - ableist
Dipshit - homophobic, insensitive to the needs of the scat community.
Oh and don't think, as one Jezebel commentator did, that you can get around this by going back in time and using Shakespearean insults - because you can't tell me that "Thou beslubbering plume-plucked lout!" does not equal "sissy faggot" in modern English.
Context wants to make something of it.
Just think about the insults we use (or that you use) and try to find some group that wouldn't be offend by it.
"Bitch" - totally misogynist.
"Whore" and any variant - slut shaming.
"Douche" - You are implying that something that goes into a vagina is by definition a bad thing, which is gynophobic and misogynist. If your justification is that douches are "useless" then you are clearly a hygienist who doesn't care about whether or not you are insensitive to the needs of women who have that not so fresh feeling.
"Fucker" - slut shaming.
"Mother Fucker" - both slut shaming and insensitive to existing and historic tribal and indigenous cultures where this may have been ritualistically important.
"Asshole" - Body snarking, triggering for people suffering from prostate cancer.
"Cock", "Dick", etc.. - Completely misandrist.
"Cunt" - self explanatory.
"Hipster" - classist.
"Cock sucker" - simultaneously homophobic, slut shaming and misogynist; a full trifecta!
"Bastard" - slut shaming (to the dude's mother), misandrist and insensitive to the difficulties that children from single family homes have to overcome.
"Goat fucker" - anti-Welsh.
"Idiot", "Moron" etc.. - ableist
Dipshit - homophobic, insensitive to the needs of the scat community.
Oh and don't think, as one Jezebel commentator did, that you can get around this by going back in time and using Shakespearean insults - because you can't tell me that "Thou beslubbering plume-plucked lout!" does not equal "sissy faggot" in modern English.
Context wants to make something of it.