SUZURICHO'S PROFILE

author=Little Wing Guy link=topic=1303.msg48761#msg48761 date=1228296686
I'm really fed up of Final Fantasy at the moment, I'm not looking forward to 13 at all. The main character has been described as a female Cloud Strife...oh goody, can't wait now.

Final Fantasy hit an iceburg at 10-2 and sank at 12 (see what I did thar?).

Do any of you guys feel like this? Like you can't accurately judge your appearance and weight so you have to regulate what you eat and mathematically determine you must look good rather than just know you do? Or do any of you have eating disorders in general (I noticed at least one person mentioned eating, especially chocolate, to treat depression).

Protip: Girls never ever want to get hit on or gawked at in the gym. It makes them really mad. They are there to exercise.

author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2621.msg48803#msg48803 date=1228317114

For example, words like nigger are just that - words. They should be no more insulting than other words that have historical context (like bastard, for example, possibly the worst insult of the middle ages). They are adjectives that were invented specifically for describing a situation and became insults on that absis. Nigger, for example, comes from negro which obviously comes from European words for the colour black. Calling someone black, though, is politically correct whereas nigger isn't when the words derive from the same source. Is it not so unrealistic to believe that, in the future, out "politically correcrt" words could also become insults on the basis that they are accurate descriptions? It's completely retarded and shortsighted to assume they won't (ironically, retard is another word that was at first a perfectly acceptable description but has now become insulting and has had to be been replaced by something more "politically correct").

Like suzi was saying, I too think that the word should just be reduced to that; a word. Not only will that stop the negativity, but the word will lose it's power as well. A word only holds powers depending on how the person who heard it interprets it. This much is true, especially considering that black people aren't the only race who is discriminated against.

However, that is the responsibility of black people to overcome, no matter how much we all think that it should be overcome. That doesn't make it hunky dory to use the word and everything should be okay. Calling someone a name and expecting them to be alright with it is wrong; yes, you can argue that they shouldn't be so sensitive, but it's not right for me to insult the person in the first place.

Also, Fallen, I think you're missing the point when you explained the origin of the word. Sure, it's etymologically correct to say that the word 'nigger' came about as simply a description for someone's skin color, but the fact is it evolved to be one of the most hurtful pejoratives to ever describe a black person. So when a black person hears the word, they don't think 'Oh gee that's just a word that was invented to describe us in the distant past', they think 'Oh, that's the word that they called us on the horrible boat ride over here, while they were whipping us, what they shouted at us as we walked away when the Proclamation set us free, when they didn't let us vote, when they denied us work, when they didn't let our children go to school from theirs, when they hung us from trees, etc'. As a person of color do I think we should get over the word? Yes! But it's not right for someone to use it expecting the other person to get over it.