Ace Faith said:
I hardly see anyone throwing these words around without being trolls. It's good that they're in place, since they don't exactly belong on a family-friendly board like the Temp.
ah fuck, i didn't know this fucking forum was supposed to fucking be family-friendly.
fuck.
in all seriousness, i don't see a point in letting this forum go R-rated while only censoring certain words. what's the point?
just as in real life, we use slang. anything from the word "cool" (oh that's so "cool") to "gay" (oh that's so "gay") is slang. no one should take it personally.
we use profanity as slang. fuck/fucking, shit, bitch. we don't mean sex, fecal matter, or female dogs when we say it. and we don't associate the slang term "gay" with actual homosexuality.
gay people who get offended by it need to get over themselves and stop being so insecure.
same goes for r*pe. when you say you "r*ped someone," you don't mean you forcefully sexed them up. it means you "owned" them. which is also slang.
slang is slang, and it should be treated as such. there are boundaries, obviously. disciplinary action should be taken against anyone who uses these words offensively,
but hey - shouldn't disciplinary action be taken against anyone who speaks speaks with the intention of offending a group or groups of people regardless of whether they use offensive words or not?
TL;DR
slang is slang. we all use it. stop being hypocrites.
that's my thought on the matter.