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[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Of course, "chink" and "guinea" were fairly toothless in that time and place and even people of the respective ethnicities used the terms pretty mindlessly.
It wasn't until I was in college that someone told me that "Guido" was offensive. In high school, we used it all the time, and the people we were describing with it weren't always Italian.
~ma for ita.
There's so many that hardly even ping as slurs until you think about them - welshing on a bet, paddy wagons, etc.
It wasn't until I was in college that someone told me that "Guido" was offensive. In high school, we used it all the time, and the people we were describing with it weren't always Italian.
We knew it meant Italian (well, Italian-American) and when we used it to describe someone NOT Italian we were saying they dressed/acted like Italian guys who dressed/acted like that.
It was certainly a sterotype but not necessarily a slur. It was akin to "preppie" or "jock". And it almost always described guys.
It was certainly a sterotype but not necessarily a slur. It was akin to "preppie" or "jock".
Yeah. Though, when I was in high school, we used "Abercrombie" instead of "preppy."
Abercrombie! Hee!
"Guinea T" and "wife beater" were used interchangeably (tough my school almost always said the former). Eventually somebody noticed they were pretty offensive. Now Torrid referrs to them as "beaters". Which? Still offensive. It's like saying "the N word". You're still USING the term, you know?
Oy, I just got cranky on my blog. Be interesting to see if there's any response.
Even "Indian summer" came from a slur. It's amazing the way these things become fixtures.
omg! One of the FSU football players is going to be on the Colbert Report. I don't know when, his name is Myron Rolle and he's awesome. Star football player, Rhodes Scholar, pre med. actually he's finished with bachelor's work.
I heard him on NPR, he sounded like such a sweetie!
Oh great. My boobs killed the thread.
Well, if by killing you meant “joyously overwhelmed with the thought of Suzi boobage”, then yes.
Even "Indian summer" came from a slur. It's amazing the way these things become fixtures.
I once got into an argument with an Englishman about where that phrase was from and just what Indians were being referenced. We didn't even think to ponder its offensiveness or not.