Moonpearl
The Yuri Empress
- Joined
- Dec 25, 2018
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Words have power, bro. Revolutions, genocides and wars have all been set off by a careless or sinisterly careful use of words - that's why so many governments seek to censor literature when they want to keep the population under their thumb.Nothing bizarre about it. Because it is normal and always was. Nothing happens when you're offended. You do not "own" words and people's ability to utilize them however the fuck they see fit. "Oh no, some dude in the obscure thread on the internet said something offensive! And I was offended! And when I woke up next morning — I had leprosy!". Be offended, nothing will happen.
Creating slurs for groups and flinging them around as insults, implying that being part of that group is an insult, is how people grow stigma against that group. And that always leads to bad things.
It implies that someone is deceiving you by dressing the way they please, and it was extended as an insult to transgender women by the usual shitlords.It's similar the other way around. I'm part of multiple communities that when someone calls something a 'Trap' we know what that is. Astolfo, Chevalier d'Eon, Felix, and so on. But apparently the word also has negative connotations against... Crossdressing Transgenders or trans people who dress up as their trans gender or something? I kind of ignored the entire conversation cause weeb has basically usurped any negative connotations to the word for me and I found it silly.
People seem to forget that internet anonymity means you can be as much of a cunt to other people as you'd like. It's not uncommon in some groups to see people rapidly insulting the others in the worst ways, then 5 minutes later be talking about something completely different.
Words have as much power over you as you give to them- and just as Anonymity giveth, the Block function taketh away.
Words affect the way that others think about you. They do matter.