• @QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
    12•1 month ago

    Right? I’m tired of the euphemism treadmill telling me what I can and can’t say. Especially if we are coming up with childish phrases like “unalived”

    I used to call myself a <transgender slur> until woke cispeople got on my case about it.

    Ahh… I guess it’s better than the old internet where the N-Word was your fast pass to being seen as funny and cool?

    • southsamurai
      8•1 month ago

      I run into that shit with cripple.

      Fuck them, I’m the one on the fucking cane, I call myself what the fuck I want, and I will gladly fight about it.

      But, yeah, the edge lords will fuck things up

    • @clang@lemmy.zip
      8•1 month ago

      This has always felt very doublespeak-y to me. Sort of like a control mechanism.

      I don’t know anyone “unhoused” who has ever been offended at the word “homeless”. It just seems silly to me.