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emilyelizabethfowl · 7 days ago

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y'know i used to be That Person but honestly, the more i think about it, what does it matter if we use ABO to refer to omegaverse? sure those letters in that order are a slur for a specific group of people. but clearly ABO is a trope, a verse, a fandom thing completely separate from that context. there are tons of words that are spelled the same but mean different things in every language, and even more between various languages. why do we need to pedantically avoid saying anything remotely similar when the context is entirely different? are korean people gonna have to stop using second person "you" bc it sounds too much like the n-word? a dog i know won a "prettiest bitch" award in a local show, are you going to confiscate the ribbon bc there's a swearword on it? like. there's a point where this kinda rhetoric becomes meaningless, and i feel like people online have passed it a while back now

#idk what is it exactly but there's just so much weight put on something that's essentially inconsequential #actions matter much more than words; lf someone's speech is rough but actions speak loud don't they amount to more #than someone who does nothing but police themself and others all day?#it's pretty much a stalling tactic that makes ppl feel like they're doing something while all they actually achieve is splintering groups #i had people up in arms over calling unicorns hermaphrodites before and like #really? you have nothing better to do than argue over what word i used to describe animals that don't even exist?#can we accept that the same words mean different things in different contexts and move on pls #let's leave pissing on the poor in the past now #oh ALSO speakers of english as a 2nd language have it even worse #bc we often learn words through vibes alone or the translation had a slightly different meaning in another language #like one time i had someone upset that i called a character a “deadbeat dad” bc the chara happened to be black #like bro that man has not been in that child's life /at all/ i thought that was the definition of deadbeat dad 😭#i feel like i've tangled up several things in this post tbh but idk. doesn't matter. total of 3 ppl r gonna see it lol

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