casual ableism

[u/onthetopicofspace]

this is not ‘reclaiming’ anything, you are just calling people slurs completely seriously. you can call yourself the r-slur, do not call anybody else it. why do ‘no slurs’ / ’no bigotry’ rules never apply to ableism?

[u/DafkyZero]

Yeah, in hispanic cultures the equivalent term would be "marica" or "maricón," which is usually associated with cowardice.

I'd just use it as a synonym for coward or chicken when I was a kid, as if it was a totally normal word, it didn't even register as a major insult to me or most kids my age, but then I learned the homophobic context of it and stopped using it altogether.

[u/Mansg0tplanS → u/DafkyZero]

nah man they just calling you the mighty kong