On the evolution of language and the "W" word

[nadinbrzezinski]

148. Perhaps this is too hard to understand

but I am not talking of a single politician, but how language is evolving. For the record, I expect that term to be used with that politician, and a score of others... local, state and federal. And I also mean those will be white, black, brown, male and female.

This is where this is going. And I predict that if it is used with your preferred one, people will be angry here. But it this is used with political enemies, that will be fine. So unless there is a general rule that magically infused words cannot be used under any circumstances... this is hypocrisy. I expect this in the hyper partisan environment we are in, but it is what it is. And I am daring to call it for what it is.

You asked about Warren. I expect it. I expect it just about any politician that some group or another does not agree with.

That was the whole point of that OP... I did not go far... I just went to the google. This is trying to stop a river in full flood and then some. You might not use the word. I do not quote nasty bits of language generally speaking. But this is where it is going.

And when I come to this place I hyper censor myself, because there is a group here that gets offended easily. I considered NOT posting that OP this morning for a good hour. It was not a spur of the moment. I also expected it to be alerted, because it has magical words in there.

By the way... do you remember the Vagina Monologues? DO you understand why they are still revolutionary in many ways? Somebody went ahead and took a naughty word and empowered it. I wish more here understood that. There is a movement as I type to retake the S word, another magic infused word that cannot be used here, but linguists and feminists are noticing this process. I find it fascinating. But we could not have a discussion on that here. Never mind it is happening in real time.

That has impoverished the site's level of discussion.