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Monday, 14-Nov-11 16:55:27 UTC from web
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@purplephish20 Hey dog, less of the 'murdock', please.
Monday, 14-Nov-11 16:56:35 UTC from web-
@thelastbunny @ceruleanspark Ok then If some find it offensive, but I don't in any way believe "papayas" is a derogatory homosexual term anymore, it can just be put on the end of something to label someone in a group, e.g "guitarcherriess", "ponymurdocks" (us), "bikemangoess" and "metalkiwis" but anyway, sorry no offense intended
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:00:07 UTC from web-
@purplephish20 I'm not sure what the kids today are using "murdock" to mean. All I know is that when I was growing up, it was an insult-- a powerful slur. It was slung at me, over and over and over again, until I began to hate myself. I'm not the only one who this word was used to harm. Please bear that in mind when casually flinging around that word.
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:03:02 UTC from web-
@purpletinker I thought it still means am insult. Unless you are British and that means cigarette to them.
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@cabal I can't speak to "mangoes" as an insult, but let me tell you all a story about "gay" as an insult. One of my exes, who sometimes wears rose-tinted glasses, claimed that when people say "oh, [x] is so gay", it doesn't indicate that they actually dislike gay people or think anything's wrong with being gay. So I put her optimism to the test. The next time I was going through a dungeon on WoW and one of my (presumably teenaged) partymates said "man this dungeon is so gay", I said "Is there something wrong with gay people?", and he said "Yes, they're sick" (or something very much like that). I repeated this experiment another one or two times, with identical results. So, from my admittedly limited anecdotal evidence, I have concluded that the old prejudices are still very much in place, and that people DO mean "murdock" and "gay" as slurs.
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:11:00 UTC from web-
@purpletinker I have a similar reaction to the word retard.
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:11:58 UTC from web -
@purpletinker That is pretty much what I know of the word. Though I knew it as Gay.
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@cabal so you know gay also means happy yes?
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@cabal @mrdragon Nobody's going to say "man, this dungeon is so gay" to mean "this dungeon is happy".
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:26:21 UTC from web-
@purpletinker lol purp
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:27:15 UTC from web-
@zach That's your new name. "purp"
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:27:36 UTC from web
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@purpletinker A'la the Flintstones, "we'll have a gay old time!!!!!!!!!!"
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:27:39 UTC from web -
@purpletinker I've done that before, but not on a dungeon. I love to do a play on words.
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@purpletinker Couldn't have said it better, myself. Thank you.
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@purplephish20 I think you mean "I bow before the obvious superiority of the glorious Macintosh master race" (Also, there are gays here, can we not use Xdole as a derogatory term)
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@purplephish20 It's still an offensive an derogatory term. Unless you're talking about cigarets and you're British, please avoid using it.
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:07:10 UTC from web -
@purplephish20 Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, once one is sensitised to a particular word, it's really hard to change that conditioning.
Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:07:23 UTC from web
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