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[–]BubblyBrush[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh makes sense why you said "goddamn gametes", my bad for not noticing. From your tones in your comments, I started thinking you both were mad at each other and couldn't continue the discussion properly though? Was I mistaken on that too? 😟

I get if I told my boss she were dense she would take it as an insult and most likely fire me 😓. But denigration is unfair criticism. When someone (take my boss) truly is incapable of understanding things, then that's not ableist to tell them they are dense, if not stupid. I don't really think a word can be "inherently" anything, bad or good. We give words meaning, and power. If someone calls me "stupid" and I don't think of "stupid" as an insult, then the word immediately loses the power the other party believed it could have over me and is not an insult anymore, to me.

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’m not mad at all. Bemused and foul-mouthed, but not angry ☺️

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They got frustrated with me first I feel. I understand though that that’s not an excuse for being snippy back.

Try to come up with a scenario where you call someone else dense or stupid and they don’t take it as an insult.