hi new friends! PSA about slurs

[belenen]

icon: "Ma'at (a photo of one side of a brass balance scale, with a feather inside the bowl. The background is sky blue. On the bottom of the image, below the photo, is the word "Ma'at")"I recently added some new people here: welcome! I'm gonna re-post some important info for y'all, as I am too anxious with strangers to have individual conflicts,

Comments

[sammason]

I'm glad to read your opinions, new friend. Esp your rejection of 'lame' being used to mean 'rubbish' or 'useless'. I am lame.

[soundofsunlight]

Hey, thank you for the reminder. Slurs bother me too, and I'm good with not using them, except "st*pid" occasionally sneaks past my filters. :/

I wasn't sure if I had used it so I went through my journal with the ctrl+F and found two. I have changed those sentences. I am sorry about that.

[rotating]

thank you so much for this. i am trying really hard to be more conscious about cutting those words from my speech and writing, but i know that i slip up sometimes. (actually, one time i was reading one of your entries and i realized i had unthinkingly used one of the words you listed in my most recent entry, so i immediately replaced it with different language.) i know it's not your job to educate people who use slurs but i just wanted to say i really appreciate the reminder. if you notice any language that is upsetting in my entries and want to discuss it, please let me know!

[kehlen]

I will second rotating's comment. I am grateful to you for making me more aware of words being offensive and monitoring what I say.

Yet sometimes now I feel robbed of means to blow off steam, because the vast majority of crude language is actually slurs, both current and more or less dated (like "bastard").

So how do you do it, when you need to let out strong emotions momentarily? Coz even the f-word has this undercurrent of sex being something dirty and taboo.

[kehlen]

Also, glad to see you on LJ again, I was wondering if you were well, but graduation explains a lot.