Man, I’ve missed all the fun 😒

59D4 coming in with the huge necro, yikes.

@Background Pony #59D4  
real fragile. which is why you run away from something challenging your views.

@Background Human  
Self-censored insults being all you have seem pretty insecure and fragile, pal. Toodles.

@Background Pony #59D4  
Who said anything about self-hating? I’m just not an insecure little [rule #0 violation] about it.

@Background Human  
Sorry, the rest of us got together and declared that self-haters have no right to speak for their groups anymore.

@TheDrizzle404  
it was easy really.

@Angrybrony  
You did it. You won the argument.

@TheDrizzle404  

@Background Human  
A slur doesn’t need to also be slang. Queer, for example, was actually the PC term but used as a slur. Still is to some extent despite being added to the LGBTQ+ thing as their accepted term. What matters is the context in which it’s used.
 
Slur: To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.

@TheDrizzle404  
Because the words themselves are neutral. Any derogatory connotation has to be inferred from context. Real slurs, words like “honkey”, “cracker”, and “peckerwood”, are a bit more constrained in their usage.
 
Like, if some guy on talk radio refers to “Democrats” as though they’re the very spawn of Satan, it doesn’t change the fact that “Democrat” is the accepted term for members of the Democratic Party.

@Background Human  
It certainly isn’t colorful, but I don’t see how that impacts whether or not it’s a slur.

@TheDrizzle404  
Uncreative?

@Background Human  
Indeed? What would you call those words when they’re used as an insult?

@TheDrizzle404  
Speaking as a straight white male, I can say with some confidence that you are an exceedingly silly person. None of those three words are slurs. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

@Background Human  
Anything can be a slur in the context it’s used. When someone uses straight white male to say you don’t deserve to be considered, all three are a slur. You can see a similar scenario in the Jane Elliot experiment where blue eyes became a slur, and brown eyes after that when the roles were reversed.

@HorsesandMuchMOAR  
Breeders seems a bit situational.
 
I think most just settle on ‘boring’.

@Background Human
 
If I recall, those are called “heteros”, “hets”, or “breeders”. But they don’t seem to have as much impact as homophobic slurs.

@TheDrizzle404  
There are slurs for straight people?

@Angrybrony  
Considering you have to use a past tense to describe gay oppression in most places where it’s still acceptable to refer to straight people as a negative slur, I’d say saying it is warranted. If everyday was straight pride day then they wouldn’t catch flack for saying it outloud.

@TheDrizzle404  
nobody’s oppression straight people. there’s a one in a million chance of getting the shit kicked out of you in a back alley you’re straight or sent to camps to brainwash the straight out of you. straight people have been given all the rights such as marriage and child adoption and straight people still out number any lgbt group by leaps and bounds.  
nobody looks at you funny for being straight.
 
everyday is straight pride day.
 
(and no being called names on twitter or tumblr is not oppression)

@Angrybrony  
The fragility of the side that doesn’t think straight people should be allowed to say straight pride, but expect to say gay pride and be supported by those same straight people.

@Background Pony #59D4  
you mean the side that has pretty much dominated US history and are throwing a tantrum?

@Angrybrony  
I was pretty clear.

@Background Pony #59D4  
fragility on which side now?