I propose "Shithead" as the most "woke" insult. It doesn't discriminate against any gender, race, religion, nationality, culture, sex, orientation, disability, etc.
Everybody poops, everyone's poop stinks, everyone has a head, and everyone agrees it's gross to have poop on your head.
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Yup, "va chier" ("go shit") in France as well.
We use "chier" in a few other expressions as well:
- when someone annoys us: "tu me fais chier" ("you are making me shit")
- when bored: "je me fais chier" ("I'm making myself shit")
- when talking about having been afraid: "je me suis chiée dessus" ("I shat myself")
- "fais pas chier" ("don't make me shit") can be used in a few ways: "leave me alone", "shut up", "stop it", …
And probably others I'm not thinking about right now.
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •@bytebro These discussions always anger me because they're so easily weaponized to cause more infighting. We're busy performing that we're the most mindful of disabilities or of the flavor-of-the-month ism, we scorn people who don't perform as well, and we end up tone policing ourselves. Meanwhile the right destroys civil liberties and rapes kids.
An insult cannot be woke. An insult is by nature offensive, because it's meant to be. And we cannot collectively prescribe what is an acceptable insult and what is not; the power of an insult comes from centuries of collective unconscious and the cultural zeitgeist, and that is slow to change. A lot of it is highly problematic, yes, but because you use a problematic insult does not mean you aren't aware of the connotations. Civil discourse is where we should pay attention to language; dissing someone is not civil discourse.
The quest for inner perfection is a laudable one, but there is a time and a place for it.
... Mostrar más@bytebro These discussions always anger me because they're so easily weaponized to cause more infighting. We're busy performing that we're the most mindful of disabilities or of the flavor-of-the-month ism, we scorn people who don't perform as well, and we end up tone policing ourselves. Meanwhile the right destroys civil liberties and rapes kids.
An insult cannot be woke. An insult is by nature offensive, because it's meant to be. And we cannot collectively prescribe what is an acceptable insult and what is not; the power of an insult comes from centuries of collective unconscious and the cultural zeitgeist, and that is slow to change. A lot of it is highly problematic, yes, but because you use a problematic insult does not mean you aren't aware of the connotations. Civil discourse is where we should pay attention to language; dissing someone is not civil discourse.
The quest for inner perfection is a laudable one, but there is a time and a place for it. And the quest for inner perfection cannot turn into virtue signaling. That is what normies call "wokeness", a concept that is widely unpopular for good reason.
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •@bytebro I have been on here so long that I thought it is kink shaming because some people might actually like some poop on their head.
If you chose food as an insult it might be someone's favourite meal.
I have no idea on how to come up with an insult. Wait. How about. You are an insult.
This is neutral?
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •I was literally thinking about this earlier while I was disparaging against my coworkers to my friends and yeah, it is the most on-discriminatory insult out there
It and jackass are the mainstays of my workday gripes to my friends
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •When it was explained to me how a douche is both completely unnecessary for, and often directly harmful to, the female body for which it is typically sold
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I began to increase my use of “douche” and derived words, as a useful replacement insult.
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As a French person, I was so confused the first few times I encountered "douche" as an insult, because it means "shower" in French 😅
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •According to a child's book that has been animated. Apparently, a stage play exists, as well. youtube.com/watch?v=FBe1KgrRYmU
Vom kleinen Maulwurf, der wissen wollte, wer ihm auf den Kopf gemacht hatte
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I’ve said for a long time that the Dutch approach of insulting people with diseases is best for this:
“Krijg de Tering” (“Get tuberculosis”) is a case of wishing people a horrible, possibly deadly time, but is not related to any protected characteristics. It also allows you to scale the strength of the insult by switching out the disease, where the insult basically becomes stronger the worse the disease is and the more it is in contemporary awareness. “Krijg de Kanker” (“get cancer”) is generally seen as the peak in that regard and often the point where even many Dutch people draw a line, arguing that many people may have family members that died of it.
The thing is: An insult is meant to hurt, not to be polite, so I don’t see that as much of a problem.
(Also, now no longer neutral of sex, but IMHO still appropriate is to respond to transphobic harassment from men with “Krijg de prostaatkanker” (“get prostate cancer”), since the treatment for that involves T-blockers, which I find appropriate for people who consider my low T and high E a problem…)
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •It does permit of broad application.
I remember an essay on Geek Feminism about why "douche" or "douchenozzle" were particularly appropriate insults for sexist men.