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**kedawa** · 31 May 2018, 10:22 PM

Fuckin' jadrools.

**Satsuki** · 31 May 2018, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by Calliander

I've tried to eliminate a good swath of marginalizing insults from my vocabulary. I hope I'm doing a decent job at that.

That said, I'll never stop using 'mongoloid' liberally. I don't know if that's gendered but it's quite offensive.

That is definitely not gendered! It’s racially charged, as well as ableist if you’re flying in that direction. I’m still a little sus about things being ableist versus not though when it comes to mental health. Like, calling someone or something “OCD” has shifted to an almost positive trait, even though it’s often used incorrectly. Yet, as we often do here, refer to negative things as autism or autistic (and I definitely do this still.) but, calling someone “manic” isn’t an insult per se, though it refers to a really destructive aspect of bipolar disorder.

I have some friends who won’t use “crazy” as an insult, and I think that’s a bit far as things go. But, it’s an interesting hierarchy of what we consider acceptable traits or not.

**Some Stupid Japanese Name** · 31 May 2018, 10:38 PM

I may up my usage of jackass.

But only if I can pull it off the way Joe Flatherty does.

**Fe 26** · 31 May 2018, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by Calliander

I've tried to eliminate a good swath of marginalizing insults from my vocabulary. I hope I'm doing a decent job at that.

That said, I'll never stop using 'mongoloid' liberally. I don't know if that's gendered but it's quite offensive.

its suppose to be racist. But its so far removed from the people that used it in a racist way now, I'm not sure if anyone really uses it that way.