I don’t know if it is what you have heard, but I have seen a lot of feminists reapropiating slurs like “b1tch”, “wh0re” and so on and calling themselves like that in a positive manner, which if you would heard them without context, you might not tell. I think this is a far better tactic than trying to ban a word, since it is essentially what has been happening with words like “gay” and “queer”, only this happened long ago and people now have internalized that they never were insults.
I have heard of this tactic being used too. But I think it’s problematic because those words are already segregated by gender. What I think might be good idea is to switch the gender, that is to start referring to men as “b1tch” and “wh0re” until women feel comfortable themselves to be called that if they consent to.
This only works with consent of the other person. For example, some LGBT people do not like being called “queer” do to it’s history of being used in a negative way towards them.
Yeah I know, I did not explicit it but you always need consent in that regard, although it is super uncommon with words like “gay” or “queer” nowadays.
I don’t know if it is what you have heard, but I have seen a lot of feminists reapropiating slurs like “b1tch”, “wh0re” and so on and calling themselves like that in a positive manner, which if you would heard them without context, you might not tell. I think this is a far better tactic than trying to ban a word, since it is essentially what has been happening with words like “gay” and “queer”, only this happened long ago and people now have internalized that they never were insults.
I’m pretty sure the two phenomena, the one you describe and the one @straightpeach@lemmy.ml describes, both exist independently.
Of course, but they can be confused.
I have heard of this tactic being used too. But I think it’s problematic because those words are already segregated by gender. What I think might be good idea is to switch the gender, that is to start referring to men as “b1tch” and “wh0re” until women feel comfortable themselves to be called that if they consent to.
This only works with consent of the other person. For example, some LGBT people do not like being called “queer” do to it’s history of being used in a negative way towards them.
Yeah I know, I did not explicit it but you always need consent in that regard, although it is super uncommon with words like “gay” or “queer” nowadays.