@Background Human
A slur doesn’t need to also be slang. Queer, for example, was actually the PC term but used as a slur. Still is to some extent despite being added to the LGBTQ+ thing as their accepted term. What matters is the context in which it’s used.
@TheDrizzle404
Because the words themselves are neutral. Any derogatory connotation has to be inferred from context. Real slurs, words like “honkey”, “cracker”, and “peckerwood”, are a bit more constrained in their usage.
Like, if some guy on talk radio refers to “Democrats” as though they’re the very spawn of Satan, it doesn’t change the fact that “Democrat” is the accepted term for of the Democratic Party.
@TheDrizzle404
Speaking as a straight white male, I can say with some confidence that you are an exceedingly silly person. None of those three words are slurs. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
@Background Human
Anything can be a slur in the context it’s used. When someone uses straight white male to say you don’t deserve to be considered, all three are a slur. You can see a similar scenario in the Jane Elliot experiment where blue eyes became a slur, and brown eyes after that when the roles were reversed.
@Angrybrony
Considering you have to use a past tense to describe gay oppression in most places where it’s still acceptable to refer to straight people as a negative slur, I’d say saying it is warranted. If everyday was straight pride day then they wouldn’t catch flack for saying it outloud.
@TheDrizzle404
nobody’s oppression straight people. there’s a one in a million chance of getting the shit kicked out of you in a back alley you’re straight or sent to camps to brainwash the straight out of you. straight people have been given all the rights such as marriage and child adoption and straight people still out number any lgbt group by leaps and bounds.
nobody looks at you funny for being straight.
everyday is straight pride day.
(and no being called names on twitter or tumblr is not oppression)
@Angrybrony
The fragility of the side that doesn’t think straight people should be allowed to say straight pride, but expect to say gay pride and be ed by those same straight people.
yeah, true lol
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real fragile. which is why you run away from something challenging your views.
Self-censored insults being all you have seem pretty insecure and fragile, pal. Toodles.
Who said anything about self-hating? I’m just not an insecure little [rule #0 violation] about it.
Sorry, the rest of us got together and declared that self-haters have no right to speak for their groups anymore.
it was easy really.
You did it. You won the argument.
A slur doesn’t need to also be slang. Queer, for example, was actually the PC term but used as a slur. Still is to some extent despite being added to the LGBTQ+ thing as their accepted term. What matters is the context in which it’s used.
Slur: To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.
Because the words themselves are neutral. Any derogatory connotation has to be inferred from context. Real slurs, words like “honkey”, “cracker”, and “peckerwood”, are a bit more constrained in their usage.
Like, if some guy on talk radio refers to “Democrats” as though they’re the very spawn of Satan, it doesn’t change the fact that “Democrat” is the accepted term for of the Democratic Party.
It certainly isn’t colorful, but I don’t see how that impacts whether or not it’s a slur.
Uncreative?
Indeed? What would you call those words when they’re used as an insult?
Speaking as a straight white male, I can say with some confidence that you are an exceedingly silly person. None of those three words are slurs. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Anything can be a slur in the context it’s used. When someone uses straight white male to say you don’t deserve to be considered, all three are a slur. You can see a similar scenario in the Jane Elliot experiment where blue eyes became a slur, and brown eyes after that when the roles were reversed.
Breeders seems a bit situational.
I think most just settle on ‘boring’.
If I recall, those are called “heteros”, “hets”, or “breeders”. But they don’t seem to have as much impact as homophobic slurs.
There are slurs for straight people?
Considering you have to use a past tense to describe gay oppression in most places where it’s still acceptable to refer to straight people as a negative slur, I’d say saying it is warranted. If everyday was straight pride day then they wouldn’t catch flack for saying it outloud.
nobody’s oppression straight people. there’s a one in a million chance of getting the shit kicked out of you in a back alley you’re straight or sent to camps to brainwash the straight out of you. straight people have been given all the rights such as marriage and child adoption and straight people still out number any lgbt group by leaps and bounds.
nobody looks at you funny for being straight.
everyday is straight pride day.
(and no being called names on twitter or tumblr is not oppression)
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The fragility of the side that doesn’t think straight people should be allowed to say straight pride, but expect to say gay pride and be ed by those same straight people.
you mean the side that has pretty much dominated US history and are throwing a tantrum?
I was pretty clear.