[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

Word meanings change over time and words not currently in circulation get re-purposed for new meanings. Stuff like "Gay" or "Boner" are all over old comics, but it means something completely different.

It's not the etymology of a word that's offensive but the disrespect the current meaning invokes- always an attempt to make a person less than human or to associate something with a group deemed inferior due to their societal minority status.
If someone called you a "cocksucker" they would not be saying you were a "rooster-eater" dispite the word origins invoked.

Hell, in my lifetime so far, terms like "Bitchin" have gone from meaning "complaining like a woman" to "awesome!" and back again.

So no, it's not irrational to find offense in a seemingly unrelated word- it's the underlying meaning that counts.

I think you gone done put waaaay too much though tinto this.
Thanks for your condescension. I'm not a moron. And thanks for missing the point altogether.
I also never said it's irrational to find offence at a word that's ment to degrade you. My intent is it is illogical to make those words offensive, in the first place.
Anyway, none of this has anything to do with the subject.
I've already saifd I'm going to stop derailing.