KillingTimeItself

are you sure it’s gaslamping? last i heard gaslamping is a term for when you start making random shit into gas lamps for no particular reason, seems to be a weird anomalous quality of certain post industrialized human societies.

Repeat yourself? Why?

I’m confused.

well yeah, it’s an insult. That’s like looking at a gun, and then being really confused when it’s capable of killing somebody.

Insults aren’t commonly derived from compliments, they’re often derived from offensive terminology, or context. That’s arguably the whole point.

Well read the post again. One girl was furious that raunchy texts were shared. Looks like we’ve solved the mystery lol.

yeah, that implies shit like “im so horny i wanna fuck you right now” not literal nudes.

though yes, sharing things without consent is definitely immoral, or unethical. It’s hard to argue otherwise. Even in the case of derek.

no, you’re assuming i care about the poster, for all i care this isn’t even a real scenario.

I’m more concerned with how people are justifying immediately flipping on something like this with this little information, and to be fair, a number of people did concede that.

idk i like pissing people off on the internet i guess. It’s how i get my read on social norms these days.

As the ancient reddit thread once said, tell everyone that they’re doing it wrong, and everybody will immediately help you to find the answer. (they will just be an asshole about it)

Works great here too!

bro i make fun of my friends in public. I don’t talk to people unless it’s a group. Simple as.

If it’s ok for me to be harsh with people in public, i see no reason to stop being harsh with them in private, assuming it meets those boundaries.

motherfucker is literally an insult, but ok.

to be clear, the wiki page you explicitly linked literally say it has a historical connotation, and the primary example it lists is from checks notes 53 years ago.

I’m going to hazard a guess that the sentiment has probably changed, a little bit. Since 1972. 1972 to be clear, was 8 years after the passing of the civil rights act. It’s a bit of a different time period now.

anyway point is, i’m not convinced anybody cares about using this as a homophobic slur anymore.

Sorry for the short temper, this thread has been too long and I already explained this on another comment.

it’s whatever, that’s how the internet is lol. This thread has been more than amusing for me thus far.

intimate photos implies, sexting, which is, a crime, according to people here. So yes, the semantics do matter :)

If you’re nit picking the nuance ls of the type of private content shared without someone’s consent you’ve already lost.

that’s my problem though, i can’t tell you what it is. Was it bad for them to do that? Probably? Does my opinion of them change if it was harmless shitposting between friends, vs genuinely talking behind the backs of various people for no discernable reason. Yes. But we don’t know that.

Unfortunately I am not god, and do not make the rules, so i cannot control what justice is and isn’t done.

Yeah but the proportion of intensity also matters. The n word literally dates back to slavery. It makes sense that it would be a pretty offensive racial line to cross. Although i don’t think it’s fully strict, i think it’s just mostly strict, you can find examples outside of it.

There’s also the question of a slur being situationally relevant. For example, you could write out the n word in long form, specifically for the act of describing it, in a dictionary for instance. You would struggle to argue that it’s a necessarily “racist” usage of the word.

For the same reason i would argue that “cocksucker” isn’t necessarily a slur against gay people, for example, if you don’t use it for the purposes of specifically slurring a gay person. Which also brings into question whether or not it is even a slur in the first place.

Of course there are also words like faggot for example, which are more directly linked to gay people, and being a slur specifically in that regard, it doesn’t have much use outside of that. But even then people do still use it, primarily gay people. Some of us just think it’s a funny word. (you can call me a faggot all you want i don’t care, i just think you look silly lmao) though i would still explicitly denote the slurred usage of faggot.

And even if you were gay, that does not make you immune to internelized homophobia.

and this would be pretty fundamentally “schizo” like we’re talking freudian psychology levels of psycho analysis and diagnosing here. There are certainly select cases where that could theoretically be possible, but i don’t see that being worth more than interesting psychological banter. I mean realistically, it’s meaningless in 99% of cases. There’s going to be another more aggressive tell.

Just like there are plenty of black people who disagree with the usage of the word removed even if spoken by a black person, because it is still rooted in racism.

and you can be against the usage of it, for sure, but i think you’ll have a hard time finding black people who police what other black people say. Just as you will in this case.

i suppose that’s fair. But it’s also an insult. They’re not meant to be nice.

derek still did a shitty thing though. Regardless of how you look it.

yeah, it could be literally any flavor. It’s hard to know form the context provided.

weird that you mention sharing explicit photos, because that’s something that didn’t happen. If we’re to believe OP, that is.

i doubt the war memes were that bad honestly. There’s been a lot of shitposting about it general, it’s just that most people haven’t seen it because it’s not particularly common. The real question is what their actual opinion is.

literally nobody says vaginalicker though? that’s just not the commonly understood variant of “cocksucker”

im sorry are we equating cocksucker, and the n word to be on the same level of offensive slur?

or maybe i’m just gay and i think cocksucker is a funny insult, but no i must be homophobic, clearly that’s the only option.

This shits just not that complicated bro, it’s language, doesn’t matter where an insult came from if it’s use is broadly different in modern lexicon. Some fascinating psychoanalysis of random people on the internet.

that’s also a fundamentally flawed argument though. Unless you’re like actively raping someone, there’s nothing inherently wrong with fucking a woman. That’s why the implication of cocksucker and motherfucker matter, obviously someone fucks everyones mother, but it’s the implication that people who are “motherfuckers” would fuck your mother just to be a problem.