TRAHR@sh.itjust.works to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months agoTrans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rightswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down110
arrow-up1132arrow-down1external-linkTrans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rightswww.theguardian.comTRAHR@sh.itjust.works to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square32linkfedilink
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoThat doesn’t make it not a slur?
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·5 months agoWhen I call a someone a cunt it’s not exactly supposed to be a compliment.
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoDo you also call someone an N word?
minus-squaregwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months ago@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz This is a much more relevant question. Cunt and R slur are not even comparable. But n word and r slur are.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoI wouldn’t order them like that tbh for lest to most offensive. I would put cunt in the middle.
minus-squaregwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt’s that it’s very directly targeted at a group of people, would you call someone that’s not gay a <f slur> Faggot ? It’s the implications of “this group of people are inherently bad, and therefore my comparison of you to them is an insult”
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoFaggot is a weird American one so probably not personally but I can easily see context where I wouldn’t be too bothered by it’s usage
minus-squaregwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThe point ain’t the word, it’s this: It’s the implications of “this group of people are inherently bad, and therefore my comparison of you to them is an insult”
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt’s more that faggot isn’t really a word I would use not because it’s too offensive to use, but it just seems too American/irrelevant. With the right context I might use gay as a mild insult.
That doesn’t make it not a slur?
When I call a someone a cunt it’s not exactly supposed to be a compliment.
Do you also call someone an N word?
@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
This is a much more relevant question.
Cunt and R slur are not even comparable. But n word and r slur are.
I wouldn’t order them like that tbh for lest to most offensive. I would put cunt in the middle.
It’s that it’s very directly targeted at a group of people, would you call someone that’s not gay a
<f slur>
Faggot
?
It’s the implications of “this group of people are inherently bad, and therefore my comparison of you to them is an insult”
Faggot is a weird American one so probably not personally but I can easily see context where I wouldn’t be too bothered by it’s usage
The point ain’t the word, it’s this:
It’s more that faggot isn’t really a word I would use not because it’s too offensive to use, but it just seems too American/irrelevant.
With the right context I might use gay as a mild insult.