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I feel like most people are wildly inconsistent on this. Fat shaming? Small dick energy? How about mental illness? Baldness for some reason? Disabilities? Oh, we could probably go on about those. Some people seemingly decide a line is too simple and draw a complex sine function instead.
My rule is to try to be decent. Sometimes, I even succeed. But I don't think I'm very good at it, and neither are most of you. Bunch of hypocrites, we are.
I've always liked "Just don't punch down." But you're right, we're all hypocritical in some form or another.
The issue is that even when your target is "up", using common characteristics as insults means lots of people below that are going to catch strays, as it were.
The problem here is lots of people have different definitions of who is up or down.
I'm not really sure when it happened, but I'd say people were generally pretty successful at destroying the old social norms. There's a lot of terrible slurs that are no longer socially acceptable to say today, there was a lot of power that white men had in conversations that was stripped from them, it was good to get rid of.
The problem is that we didn't really replace it with anything. There was no great basic decency movement, nothing new about treating people with respect. If anything, it seems like we've embraced being more toxic than ever, and have decided to invent new ways to insult and belittle each other.
Haha you mean like when people make fun of ben shapiro for being short, "its ok because he's a piece of shit" alright well then make fun of them for their shit takes not the stuff they cant control.
I'll be over here minding my own short business catching strays from content creators I used to otherwise enjoy.
But what if it's in the positive? Damn girl I like your fat ass. But I can see it being used negatively.
I like Big Dick Energy though. Can we keep that?
I think you answered your own question? It depends on meaning and context, not just words themselves. And while positive messages intersect the overarching topic, they're different enough that we can't just bundle them together and treat them in the same fashion.
Can't handle the magnitude of that question on my own, I'm afraid.
Nope. Far too misogynistic and aggressive. It implies there are small dicks and it even completely ignores people born without dicks or had them removed.
The point is, there is no such thing as perfection. We all follow the "Open mouth and insert foot" rule on occasion. But we can try to do our best knowing we will often fail. And when others fail us in return, we must learn to gently correct and forgive.