Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-24486926-20131217154348

Noothgrush wrote: TBC - I agreed with Necro on the subject of homophobic slurs and the relative effect that those terms have on the respective parties. I disagreed with you on the usage of the word "retard", as a different subject altogether.

To play Call of Duty, say, and kill someone and say something like "haha, I just raped that guy" trivializes the term. It makes it something desirable or laughable. Archaic definitions aside, most people don't understand or know those definitions. They say rape as in sexual assault, as in domination via sexual assault. We should be doing all we can to stop that in its tracks, I've read and seen them ultimately deleted, but some new users really trivialize rape in their stories, not treating it with respect in any way. They almost fetishize it. That's the kind of activity that we need to nip in the bud, not just on the wiki but everywhere. Rape culture already a massive problem in our society, it's getting unfortunately more prevalent. I don't think we should encourage it through outright allowance. Most stories using rape are just shock value, and rape jokes, whereas I could care less, are innapropriate. I agree, it needs nipped in the bud.

Bitter, what you don't seem to get is that "retard" is often used in context as someone being pathetic and stupid, not lazy or anything, but simply, pathetic and stupid. Same goes with when you are not describing an animate object.

For example, in my blog post you accused me of effectively calling the last example user a retard, when in actuality, I was pointing at the fact that it was pure laziness for someone to write with terrible grammar that this supposed "example user" had (Ifailed3rdGradeEnglish), and that people who use such grammar should not be ranting about their stories being deleted. What I had said in that post about this non-existant example user was completely logical.

However, if you can take that out of context, then why can't someone with a mental deficiency take "That's retarded" or "This is retarded" out of context, and quickly become offended? I fail to see where the logic in your argument lies; you were quick to try and call me a hypocrite, and take my words out of context, but you stand up for the use of the word "retard" all over the place because according to you, we're doing the same.