Kind of changing the topic a bit, but when I hear women attacking each other with sexist slurs directed at women I get sad because for them it’s just a cheap and effective way to insult another woman, but I think all the women in the world pay the price for that, because we keep normalizing sexism against women.
As one person put it, “I’ll take ‘women reinforcing the patriarchy’ for 500, Alex.”
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.
Yeah, it’s really sad.
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not for humans that can educate themselves
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It’s very difficult to stay healthy if you’re forced to work most of the day and can only afford cheap, extremely unhealthy food. I don’t think natural selection is a good thing for humanity at this point, since our intelligence is by far our most important feature (Einstein wasn’t exactly buff)
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I agree. While bodyshaming is indeed bad, most of what is classified as body shaming is not really bodyshaming.
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Partially agreed. The “shaming” should be limited to people that are actively responsible for their condition. Not the one born with natural conditions like shortness, handicapped etc
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I think your point is wrong, but also you know that this also factors in people who miss a leg, short men, manly looking women etc… Traits that people can’t change.
Unfortunately nobody cares about short men.
When people say “bodyshaming”, it’s almost always related to obesity.
is this the weird short man thing you’re being mad about? lmao
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