Majorllama

Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right.

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

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Cake day: January 7th, 2025

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  • Yeah I don’t care for that. If you have a word and it’s been used for something for a long time I do not see the need to change it if it suddenly starts offending people later.

    Like working on cars. Lots of parts on cars use terms that some people are now taking offense too. Master/slave to refer to parts that work in a chain of command. Or male and female fittings to describe a connection that protrudes and a connection that has a hole in it.

    I’m not going to change my vocabulary because suddenly after hundreds of years people are deciding they don’t like the words anymore. They make sense in that application to describe the function of the parts and there is no need to change it. Nobody is being called a master or slave. Nobody is being called a male or female. These are car parts that got named the way they did because it made the most sense.

    I’m not gonna get upset with people using the term “fat” to describe anything wide or large just because I’m overweight. That was be stupid.



  • I never said it was wrong for people to take offense to the word inherently. My point is that it’s a choice to get offended by a word. Some people don’t like other random words and they freak out about it. I knew a guy in highschool that hated the word “moist” and because he had such an entertaining reaction to it everyone on the class made sure use it as much as possible. Eventually he stopped being bothered by the word entirely. The meaning hadnt changed. He just chose to stop being bothered by it.

    Stop letting other peoples words have so much power over your.