Ahh, the joys of comms where the mods care more about making their little circle of friends happy than, y'know, enforcing rules of good behavior and such. (Before I checked, I was half-expecting you to have meant Rann's comment; he's a friend and I now that we share similar views on a lot of stuff, but he's a lot more outspoken about them.)
I particularly like, BTW, how when the *actual hermaphrodite* showed up to shoot down Miss Bitchy's argument that "hermaphrodite is an evil term only used to dehumanize," she was *nowhere in sight* on that one. (Ironically, my father is transgendered, and I'd only heard the term "intersex" used once before, by a non-native speaker of English; how can one claim that it's the "standard, preferred term" when *nobody actually uses that term*?)
Oh, and also, her getting all offended that someone might use the term "dumb," which, last I knew, had last been used to refer to someone who's mute in "Pinball Wizard" back in the 60s, because it could be offensive to mutes... yet showing an official etymology of "jerk" that *specifically* refers to it possibly being derived from "jerking off," and not recognizing that it could be JUST as offensive to chronic masturbators! ;)
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Date: 2011-11-07 02:11 pm (UTC)I particularly like, BTW, how when the *actual hermaphrodite* showed up to shoot down Miss Bitchy's argument that "hermaphrodite is an evil term only used to dehumanize," she was *nowhere in sight* on that one. (Ironically, my father is transgendered, and I'd only heard the term "intersex" used once before, by a non-native speaker of English; how can one claim that it's the "standard, preferred term" when *nobody actually uses that term*?)
Oh, and also, her getting all offended that someone might use the term "dumb," which, last I knew, had last been used to refer to someone who's mute in "Pinball Wizard" back in the 60s, because it could be offensive to mutes... yet showing an official etymology of "jerk" that *specifically* refers to it possibly being derived from "jerking off," and not recognizing that it could be JUST as offensive to chronic masturbators! ;)