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rotationalsymmetry · 1 year

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gotta love it when someone responds to the idea that terms indicating lower intelligence are ableist by insulting the intelligence of the person saying that. It's ideologically consistent I guess?

#Ironically I'm probably the core audience for 'stupid girl' and it does in fact make me uncomfortable bc it #Equates conventionally feminine with stupid and stupid with bad #Obvs I think Green Day walks on water but they definitely don't check their language for words that might hurt people #That one hopes they weren't trying to hurt #The f word is reclaimed in context and it's pretty clear it's reclaimed without knowing anything about the artists #Idiot isn't though idiot is used as an insult #'Well maybe i AM that thing you say I am I'm still better than you' is not using a slur without awareness y'know?#Ableism discourse tag

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