derpmonster 22,412 Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 7 hours ago, Lord Temptation said: It did in the past but in modern times words like p#ssy, bitch, hell even the word sis can be used by men or to describe men. This is a consequence of gender fluidity. I don't think it's a consequence of gender fluidity. Sis isn't a bad word, so that's a different beast altogether. Cursewords that are associated with a certain gender tend to be about qualities associated with that gender. Some people use "gay" or f*g as insults and say they just mean "stupid" now in "modern times". Should we agree with that? Check out iTunes data & graphs at CHARTPOP.live Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Temptation 11,209 Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 2 hours ago, derpmonster said: I don't think it's a consequence of gender fluidity. Sis isn't a bad word, so that's a different beast altogether. Cursewords that are associated with a certain gender tend to be about qualities associated with that gender. Some people use "gay" or f*g as insults and say they just mean "stupid" now in "modern times". Should we agree with that? Gay only started becoming an insult in modern times. The original meaning was happy. The point is that words meanings evolve. They may be positive at one stage, perojative at another, or dual at another. Words have relational contexts. The N-word is considered highly offensive when spoken by non-blacks: it can literally mean the opposite (brother, friend) when spoken between African-Americans. Saying that a word ONLY means one thing (and not it’s opposite) is false because all languages evolve and have contradictory/contextual subtleties. Only dead languages like Latin are as black-and-white precise as you claim. They are frozen in time and do not respond to complex interactions and emergent vernacular. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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