There is how others perceive words, yes, but there is no such thing as using words in a derogatory sense on the interwebs...
Why? What you call polite may not be what I call it. That has been illustrated by the aged, obese hooker here already. There is no nice here, there is no naughty here, there just is.
Yes, they're just words, nothing more. Only weak people allow the pathetic connotations they see in those words to affect them. Instead, they should see only the dictionary definitions of them...and then they'd just laugh...
Why doesn't it mean that? I can use any language I want to. It's irrelevant to me now other people perceive those words.
It's honestly too bad that you see my words as being negative in some way. Maybe you should have paid more attention to the earlier posts in the thread...
Originally Posted by Wakeup
So without going word for word replying to your reply, I'll just summarize.
I am all for free speech. Trust me, I've pissed a few people off regarding that. However, when your free speech specifically offends a singular person, then you are violating the rules that are mentioned by The Man himself.
I could say that I want to be called a European American all day long, but 90% of the other people on here are fine being called crackers. So feel free to call all 90% of those people crackers. But after I tell you that I find it offensive and you decide to refer to me as that anyway, it's not just an attack, it's also just a dick move on yourself.
I can almost guarantee that you're older than me, so I know you were raised with a better sense of morals and etiquette than I was.
If someone takes offense to a certain word, then just don't call them by it. When you generalize, I'm fine with that because it's freedom of speech. Nothing in the rules says you can't have freedom of speech, regardless of how derogatory it is. However, when you start calling another member of the board by a term that they don't appreciate, then it becomes an attack on that specific member, which is a violation of the rules.
So, if you want to describe how you feel that hooker is an appropriate term and words shouldn't hurt (I also feel that we are in 2016 and people should not need a safe space from words), I am totally fine with that. But the moment you start directing those terms towards someone who does not appreciate them, that is when I have a problem with it.
Please re-read guidelines 1-4 posted by St. C and make sure you are outside of those guidelines when replying on my section of this forum. Thank you.
If you want to discuss the specifics of it in more detail, I am more than willing to have you PM me and we can go back and forth on this issue all day.