Comment on Basic geography

mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just FYI, a more respectful term would be “transfem person”, ‘tranny’ is a slur that can make many trans people uncomfortable when used

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i will admit i miss being able to use the word around the auto shop. since i’m not around the auto shop i don’t have much opportunity anyways and i’d rather let everyone feel comfortable in the space.

    you can pry jenny from my cold dead lexicon tho

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    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That auto shop? What?

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        used to mean transmission

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  • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Actually, in the cartography community they’ve reclaimed the word and now the best practice has flipped.

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  • mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Personally, I think there’s no real “political correctness”. Something is only offensive if you let it have that affect on you. Otherwise, it’s a bunch of assumed possible offensiveness worrying someone might get their feelings hurt.

    Now, that’s not an excuse to be a jerk to people, I’m just saying I feel it’s mostly made up as another means of coerced control.

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    • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If words have a history of always being used in a hurtful and discriminatory way, then it’s just awful to use them. That’s also why you don’t use the n word. While it is “just” a word, why would you just use a word that hurts many people and has awful historical usages.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Something is only offensive if you let it have that affect on you.

      Laws have an effect on people whther they want them to or not.

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• Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  First time seeing that slur on Lemmy.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You haven’t been on 9gag, some of the comments on there are also something else

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    • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How about Instagram reels?

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• Soleos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So… is it that you think the US was born male or that anyone with tiddies is trans?

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think they meant it had boobs and a dick :p

    But yeah I guess cis men can have boobs too lol so it doesn’t exactly mean that

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