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[azkun]

college is fine, busy, blah blah blah not what I'm here to talk about right now

I'll just leave this and this here.

I'd like to think that I have a fairly decent grasp on and appreciation for the English language. I'm aware that the things not only I, but anyone says, has meaning and value. This meaning and value isn't necessarily the same for

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[azkun]

Exactly! When I say, "Oh man, they were all out of muffins at the cafe, super-lame!" I'm clearly not saying it with the intent to offend, and that's what should definitely be taken into account. People saying stuff like, "That's ableist!!!" to things without that context just really peeves me off.

[mollyandfriends]

This. Everything you said.

Oh man. I was reading that post earlier and I want to bang my head against a wall. I've also noticed the term "ableism" being used quite a bit recently. While I understand the need to sometimes be "sensitive", this just seems silly. "Lame" is not offensive at all, and I don't understand the need to find something offensive about it either. Now if "lame" were replaced with "retarded" maybe there would be a valid argument. But even I use that word sparingly.

[azkun]

Yeah, I try to avoid using, "retarded," as much as possible, simply because it doesn't really have much of an alternate non-offensive meaning. It's taken on too much of a bad connotation now for me to really feel like I have an excuse to use it. Maybe when I was in middle school, but not really anymore.

[lovegonnadrown]

Fuck, az I think we're brain twins.

idk, if there was someone legitimately hurt by me using a certain word then I would probably go out of my way not to use it around them just for the sake of not being an asshole, but I'm not going to censor myself just because a few jerks like to get all up in arms about something they have nothing to do with in order to make themselves feel superior.

Because that's what it seems like to me most of the time, honestly. Some big "I am a better person" contest bullshit. Like how discussions on privilege always end up devolving into "I AM BLACK AND POOR AND GAY AND FEMALE THEREFORE MY OPINION IS MOST IMPORTANT"

[azkun]

Exactly. On a case by case basis, if I respected the person and they legitimately didn't want me to use the word, I definitely wouldn't. But I still say it's just a matter of differing opinion, and I still wouldn't think the word, "lame," is in and of itself offensive.

Ohfuck, "privilege," is another one of those words like, "ableist," that makes me want to scream in frustration. Yeah, okay, there might be certain things I can't understand from a first-person perspective because I am a white, middle-class female, but that doesn't mean my opinion doesn't matter. :T

[interrobangings]

I LOVE SAYING CUNT

WHEN I DON'T GET TO SAY CUNT I THINK IT'S RETARDED AND LAME

:3

[azkun]

YOU ABLEIST

[interrobangings]

you missed sexist as well

[m_a_foxfire]

The cynic in me suspects that this trend of jumping on potentially offensive language is because trying to raise money and/or awareness for ramps and elevators requires actual effort rather than banging out a few sentences of angry rant on a keyboard.

[azkun]

It just strikes me as sort of a waste of time. So it this, I guess, but I'm just really frustrated with so many people agreeing with the side I'm personally opposed to. :T