It’s a part of the female body used as an insult. Tell me again how it’s not misogynistic?
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leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day agoI'm assuming you're American? If so you should be aware that word doesn't carry he same baggage elsewhere in the world.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Outside of the US, that meaning fell away and/or changed in some places quite sometime ago. I know it's difficult for a certain type of American to envisage a world outside of their own borders but believe it or not, it does exist and even has different cultural language evolutions.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Uh huh. “I’m used to it and I don’t want to change” is such a tired excuse.
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I really don't mind discussing this with you, but please at least make an effort to have your statements make some kind of sense. Just try and envisage the possibility that outside of the US the same or similar words have always had, or have evolved to have, different or alternative meanings. The people where I live who still interpret the word in the same way you insist is the only possible interpretation are of an older generation. Its in pretty common use by all genders in younger generations.
Also, if you ever get around to getting a passport (a document that lets you travel to other countries), you might want to leave Australia, the UK and Ireland in particular out of any travel plans you have.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 day ago
It’s the #1 swearword in Finland, too.
I wonder if the other person would have objected if you’d used “dick” instead.