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WCDT strips 4216-4220 (9th to 13th March 2020)
Case:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 09 Mar 2020, 23:50 ---I dunno. I've been committed/sectioned several times, and some people still don't like me throwing the word "crazy" about with reckless abandon. I think that the main reason that I still use it is to keep it from having (more) power over me.
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Sorry to hear about your ordeals, Unbuggerable one. Myself, I have two entries in various incarnations of the DSM about the way my headmeats work, and nobody is going to publicly shame me about the way I talk about (aspects of) myself - and especially not out of some alleged intent to protect me from public shaming.
I have no right to speak on anybody else's behalf, even if I'm a member of the same group, but I find it astonishing that some folk feel apparently feel they need to teach me about the words used as weapons against me. When people call me 'crazy', at least they have own their attack. I see a danger in proscribing the use of euphemisms in that it gives those very same people a way to attacki me and claim that any attack ever happened.
If you ask me whether I'd like to have a little gaslighting along with the stigma, I'm afraid my answer would be that I don't consider that a good deal.
--- Quote from: Torlek on 10 Mar 2020, 09:50 ---
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 09 Mar 2020, 23:41 ---*raises hand*
I have, at a minimum, depression and anxiety. Does that give me "c-word" privileges?
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"How many traits must I have in common with a person to be an insensitive asshole towards them using a word that has been used to stigmatize and/or oppress people like them for generations?"
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Fair warning: You try to appropriate my words that I use to describe an aspect of myself, you're likely to learn a lot more about my opinions than any reasonable person could reasonably wish to.
First thing would be my opinion on the popular practise of 'slanderquoting'.
Personally, I think that if you catch yourself publicly shaming folk in order to protect them from public shaming, you may consider the possibility of a flaw in the way you practise allyship.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Torlek on 10 Mar 2020, 09:50 ---
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 09 Mar 2020, 23:41 ---*raises hand*
I have, at a minimum, depression and anxiety. Does that give me "c-word" privileges?
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"How many traits must I have in common with a person to be an insensitive asshole towards them using a word that has been used to stigmatize and/or oppress people like them for generations?"
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It's a reasonable point, but maybe turn down the judgementalism around 27 notches?
DaiJB:
1. I put "Jimbo" (hey, it's always good to see Jimbo!), "Faye's Mother" (because I want to see how she handles Faye's relationship with Bubbles) and I want to see Angus again (ditto).
2. Remember how the Secret Bakery was introduced as a sort of bizarro Coffee of Doom? How all of its residents seemed to have their equivalent in CoD? Just pointing this out, as Renee (Faye equivalent) seems to be paying a great deal of attention to a lady-robot's butt... :-D
Stoutfellow:
Comic's up.
I get the feeling Millefeuille is going to make a drunken pass at Clinton.
(Would anyone get it if I sang, "I'm Mill-ton, your brand new ship!"?)
shanejayell:
I wonder how often Clinton has to go "Stop playing with my robot hand, it's creepy."
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