What words or phrases do you find antagonistic, unpleasant, or dumb?

[GuillermoGage 246]

This might end up in the Debate Pit depending on the direction that it takes... but here goes.

 

I like to imagine that I... for the lack of a better word, pride myself on having a healthy skepticism and distaste for a lot of the negative inflammatory uses of a lot of the words in the English language. Words that are designed to derail intelligent discussion and are just emotional tools.

 

words that vary from all around the ideological spectrum:

homophobia, gay agenda, sodomy

anti-feminism, patriarchy, womanizer, socialist, socialized medicine, MRA, (an acronym for Men's Rights Advocacy) SJW (for Social Justice Warrior) and "feminazi"

the lumping together and letter arrangement involved in the initialism "LGBT".

 

Here's an explanation for what I don't like.. not about the concepts themselves, but the cheap emotional targeting when using some of these tired-out phrases and buzzwords.

 

I consider myself to.. people would probably think of me as a bit of a right-wing person if they got to know my views well... But I don't like it how a lot of right-wing people constantly use the snide snarky phrase "Social Justice Warrior" or even SJW. SJW sounds like Social Jehovah's Witness, which makes an arbitrary cultural comparison, or it also sounds like Street Journal Wall, which makes them sounds like a jerky fourth estate superiority complex.

 

using the phrase MRA in an antagonistic manner makes is sound like MRA is some type of Mirish terrorist group or some sort of virus that attacks people genetically.

 

The word "homophobia" is so casually thrown around that it immediately turns my brain off when someone just casually uses it when no-one was even thinking of homosexuality. For example "My friends aren't very much into being physically affectionate"

and then the person doesn't do anything to mention that their friends are all the same sex, or are the same sex as the person, or that the person is "homo".

And then the person says "But it is not like they are homophobes".

 

Yeah, I really doubt that people are going to gravitate toward that by default, that not being a very affectionate person physically has some deeper prejudice behind it, and that they will think that unless indicated otherwise. People should not gravitate toward that by default unless the person has suggested that.

 

I also don't approve of the word "sodomy". Even a cursory knowledge of Biblical scripture should tell you that it is downright unfair to compare what people refer to when they refer to "sodomy", with what was actually being done in Sodom.

 

Also, seriously, people in their twenties finding teens in the throes of puberty as attractive are not "pedophiles". That is not "pedophilia". It is "ephebephilia" for the cusp of adolescence and early adolescence, and "hebephilia" for the full swing of adolescence.

Teens are not prepubescent kids. They are still in the process of maturing their bodies and brain development, yes, but any squicky age-difference has to be taken on a case-by-case basis. They are not helpless little kids who don't know what is going on, so I detest wording that suggests as such. Young people who haven't gotten a chance to fully get in the swing of physical development, and brain development... yes, generally older people who have been around for longer could stand to have more mature adult, reciprocal relationships with people a bit closer to their own age.

 

But people should understand the difference between being a pedophile and being sexually attracted towards people who are no longer just kids, but that a person still has a great deal of seniority over that has implications on the type of situation you could realistically involve yourself with them.

 

Also, for some words that don't have serious political implications:

 

I don't like the word "twerking"

or "tweet". when used to talk about Twitter. I detest that a lowercase word is being used to describe something that exclusively refers to the uppercase brand that is Twitter. That not everyone uses.

 

unless maybe the word "tweet" ends up referring to any short public status update on any online place, not just Twitter.

 

also, I don't like the word "bromance". It reeks of live-action sitcoms.

 

Well, I hope that this discussion can distinguish between disliking a word or phrase and whether or not one also disliked the goal that is being attempted to be achieved with that wording. Sometimes I detest the agenda behind certain misguided language, but sometimes I can get behind what the core meaning is, but detest what certain connotations come with certain words.

Edited December 29, 2014 by GuillermoGage

[baba_booey 4,299]

I really hate terms like "retard" or "gay" being used as an insult.

 

I mean seriously, it's immature and can be hurtful to people who actually are retarded/gay, or any of the other words used.

 

Also, "overrated" has become so overused that I feel like no one even knows the real meaning of it any more.

[Omega Centauri 316]

I hate the word "Pulchritudinous." 

 

It's horrible trying to pronounce it, and is just outright painful in every way.

 

 

 

 

 

...Wait, is that not what you mean?

[NotoriousSMALL 1,984]

"fap"

it's the worst onomatopoeia. It makes the action its describing a gazillion times more gross than it already is.

[GenderIsAnIllusion 2,177]

Gay being a replacement for stupid

"The FDA finds no differance between milk that contains rBST, and milk that does not."- and similar statements.

 

Twit, retard, litigate, austrasize, problematic, malinformed, N word ( and other slurs), shut up, man up, go to hell,

 

"Fossils are Funney shaped rocks that God left for us to find as a test to our faith in him."

[VanillaChip 71]

I don't get offended by words, I use gay and retarded as an insult. People are too oversensitive.

[GuillermoGage 246]

I don't get offended by words, I use gay and retarded as an insult. People are too oversensitive.

I personally adore using the word "fag" and "faggot" in various contexts. Sometimes people deserve to be called a fag. I adore the phrase "do it faggot". It is not necessarily a sign of actual hatred or discrimination, it depends on the context. using -fag as a suffix is fun. Furfag furfag furfaggot.

 

But I always detest the "N" word, especially if black people are using it and using it with an "a" at the end.

I understand that the word "nigga" at some point was used as an ironic tool to band together... but now it has truly lost whatever little use it had and is just icky and a justification for casually having a seperatist attitude about race, as if there must always be this "otherness" that black people want to perpetuate against people who "don't understand the nigga experience". No. There eventually comes a time to move on. I also don't like the naive phrase "post-racial", but that doesn't mean people cannot attempt to make is somewhat closer to reality.  Not casually using the word "nigga" in rap music, which simply cuts off non-black (notice I said non-black and not just "white") fans from fully being able to participate in the lyrics and makes them feel like an outsider.... this is a good start.

[Shanks 10,811]

I am not so much offended by words as I am by who certain words are misused. Racist, sexist, homophobe ect being used as insults is one of the quickest and easiest ways to piss me off. We have come a long way but bigotry is still a serious problem and using those as cheap insults is a slap in the face to all the people who actually have had the misfortune to go through these things. I also can't stand how "Autistic" is being used as an insult, I myself am on the Autism spectrum and how this complicated issue is being used to troll people really dosen't help matters and if anything may be doing a great deal of harm.

 

Objectification is another word that has been misused mostly by radical feminists to demonize anyone who even remotely finds women attractive. I had a run in with such feminists on Facebook once and I still can't get rid of the bad taste in my mouth. I am sorry that some women have been sexually harassed but this sort of bullshit only serves to drive an unnecessary wedge between men and women. And last but not least privilege in particular the phrase "check your privilege" which has been used by advocates of the culture of perpetual victim hood where if anyone is a woman or minority than they can blame all their problems on white males instead of taking responsibility for their actions.

[GuillermoGage 246]

I am not so much offended by words as I am by who certain words are misused. Racist, sexist, homophobe ect being used as insults is one of the quickest and easiest ways to piss me off. We have come a long way but bigotry is still a serious problem and using those as cheap insults is a slap in the face to all the people who actually have had the misfortune to go through these things. I also can't stand how "Autistic" is being used as an insult, I myself am on the Autism spectrum and how this complicated issue is being used to troll people really dosen't help matters and if anything may be doing a great deal of harm.

 

Objectification is another word that has been misused mostly by radical feminists to demonize anyone who even remotely finds women attractive. I had a run in with such feminists on Facebook once and I still can't get rid of the bad taste in my mouth. I am sorry that some women have been sexually harassed but this sort of bullshit only serves to drive an unnecessary wedge between men and women. And last but not least privilege in particular the phrase "check your privilege" which has been used by advocates of the culture of perpetual victim hood where if anyone is a woman or minority than they can blame all their problems on white males instead of taking responsibility for their actions.

There are definitely a lot of words and phrases I hate specifically because of the idea or .... I know this may sound hypocritical because I mentioned that I dislike the phrase "gay agenda"... but yeah, often times, there is an agenda behind words that makes me unable to take people seriously when they use those words. 

 

Like "blasphemy". it doesn't really mean anything except for "you are going against a religion or rule and that is bad because you are going against that religion". There's also the phrase "dogma" which actually has a useful definition but people just throw it around to bash religion and religion only. 

 

I dislike the word "pride" a great deal when people try to put a positive spin on it. Pride is literally a bad thing. it is not good, not even in the apolitical context of sports fans or anything. It has long been an synonym for hubris, arrogance, pridefulness.

 

Pretentious... it gets abused a lot on IMDb. Almost any movie that is "Oscar bait" or has serious issues gets labeled as this, even if it covers it's subject matter and storytelling and artistry very well and NOT in a sappy or clichéd way, and does interesting things instead of sticking to cookie cutter emotional drama tropes or some form of gimmickry.

 

I greatly insist that the word Brony is a proper noun, and must always be capitalized as such. It is a word that is directly referring to a trademarked brand. Even tho the word Brony will never be trademarked, the "(o)ny", at the very least the "ny" comes from My Little Pony, not my little pony, and therefore, the first letter in any set of letters coming before is as part of the same word, should be capitalized reference the capitalized thing.

 

There are also concepts and causes that I can get behind, but don't like some words that are being used that have negative connotations, and have often times earned those negative connotations.

 

Then there's the words that, when people use them... always mean the opposite of their actual definition because of sarcasm-esque idea toward it.

 

Like "excuses". Sometimes, people really do have valid excuses for things.

"Justify" is hardly ever used to describe actually having a good reason for doing something, which is what the actual definition is, but just now means "falsely justify; claim to have a justification, but it's not a good justification".

Edited December 29, 2014 by GuillermoGage

[Kel_Grym 1,917]

Usually words like "Please" and "Thank You".

[Envy 6,013]

The serious use of "gay agenda" automatically invalidates anything the person has to say on the subject of LGBT rights in my mind. That's how ridiculous I find it to be.

 

On a related note, the "God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" 'joke' is dumb on so many levels. I have a coworker that likes to say that every single time the subject gets brought up (it always does, since you know, homosexuality is always the butt of everyone's jokes) - he thinks it's so funny and incredibly clever and accurate, but it is so dumb that I don't even know where to start with it.

[sweetolebob18 724]

The only one that burns my biscuits is "Native American".  Dude, I was born here the same as you were. I'm just as native as you are.  I get why you don't like "Indian", but if you expect ME to stop saying Indian, you'd better pick another name.

 

Also ain't crazy about "Afro American", but if that's what you want, OK.

[VanillaChip 71]

I personally adore using the word "fag" and "faggot" in various contexts. Sometimes people deserve to be called a fag. I adore the phrase "do it faggot". It is not necessarily a sign of actual hatred or discrimination, it depends on the context. using -fag as a suffix is fun. Furfag furfag furfaggot.

 

But I always detest the "N" word, especially if black people are using it and using it with an "a" at the end.

I understand that the word "nigga" at some point was used as an ironic tool to band together... but now it has truly lost whatever little use it had and is just icky and a justification for casually having a seperatist attitude about race, as if there must always be this "otherness" that black people want to perpetuate against people who "don't understand the nigga experience". No. There eventually comes a time to move on. I also don't like the naive phrase "post-racial", but that doesn't mean people cannot attempt to make is somewhat closer to reality.  Not casually using the word "nigga" in rap music, which simply cuts off non-black (notice I said non-black and not just "white") fans from fully being able to participate in the lyrics and makes them feel like an outsider.... this is a good start.

I live in area with a good amount of blacks, they don't really like me and I've had a few bad experiences with them. So I do use the "n-word" to describe them quite a bit.

[Teen Buscemi 135]

"Get over yourself" mostly because my brother used to repeat it all the time!

[Thrashy 2,800]

I'm rather mystified by insults like "fat fedora-wearing neckbeard" (which seems to be most popular on Tumblr as a way to blast 4channers, bronies, MRAs, atheists, and just about any other social group that Tumblrites like to make boogeymen out of). Now, I'm not at all disagreeing with the general consensus that neckbeards and fedoras simply look awful. But I have two questions:

 

A. What about someone's facial hair and/or headgear preference invalidates what they have to say? Or even makes them a bad person, for that matter? Last I checked, having poor fashion sense didn't exactly make a person...you know...Hitler.

 

B. Isn't the "fat" bit kind of antithetical to Tumblr's anti- body shaming movement? Isn't it a little hypocritical to mock someone's (assumed) girth while simultaneously demanding that the rest of the world stop telling you you're going to have major health complications if you don't consider easing off the Big Macs?

 

Oh, Tumblr...what am I gonna do with you? -_-

[GuillermoGage 246]

I live in area with a good amount of blacks, they don't really like me and I've had a few bad experiences with them. So I do use the "n-word" to describe them quite a bit.

Wut.

Perhaps you are trolling...

 

I also live in an area where I am a white person surrounded by black people. Black people that have a trashy antagonistic vendetta against white people and openly express it as a socially accepted thing. I live in Indianapolis, where this is a very real part of being a white person. But.. uh, I still hate any spelling of the "N" word and refuse to use it and try not to even think it. In my opinion, so many black people are not fully aware of their history that using a classic racial slur on people gives them a connection to their ancestry that they haven't earned/don't deserve. Also because the N word is just empty and meaningless. Unless you are talking about the Gayones from outer space (the lack of spacing between Gay and ones is intentional). In the immortal words of Patrick Star, Finland!

 

In my opinion nine-year-old black boys on the playground have no special ironic brotherhood cultural construct to deserve/have privelige to the phrase "bitch ass nigga". It is just an impressionable and empty endorsement going on commercialization of racial separatism culture.

 

And I actually have heard that on the way to check the mail or put in laundry at my apartment complex.

 

But yeah the N word is a most detestable and cowardly part of western history and I prefer it to be antiquated.

Edited December 30, 2014 by GuillermoGage

[CC_Maud_Pie 6,431]

I would say "sell-out" and "traitor" is antagonistic because ponies say it as a way of turning against someone.

Edited December 30, 2014 by CC_FlutterMaud

[GuillermoGage 246]

I'm rather mystified by insults like "fat fedora-wearing neckbeard" (which seems to be most popular on Tumblr as a way to blast 4channers, bronies, MRAs, atheists, and just about any other social group that Tumblrites like to make boogeymen out of). Now, I'm not at all disagreeing with the general consensus that neckbeards and fedoras simply look awful. But I have two questions:

 

A. What about someone's facial hair and/or headgear preference invalidates what they have to say? Or even makes them a bad person, for that matter? Last I checked, having poor fashion sense didn't exactly make a person...you know...Hitler.

 

B. Isn't the "fat" bit kind of antithetical to Tumblr's anti- body shaming movement? Isn't it a little hypocritical to mock someone's (assumed) girth while simultaneously demanding that the rest of the world stop telling you you're going to have major health complications if you don't consider easing off the Big Macs?

 

Oh, Tumblr...what am I gonna do with you? -_-

I am not fat, far from it.. I am rather underweight, but I enjoy being a Brony, and while I personally like to think of myself as a feminist in the very core sense of the term, I'm sure a lot of people who call themselves feminists would deny me it. I think of myself as bot a femnist and a masculist.

 

I shave as little as possible. My facial hair hasn't been growing past a certain point, but I definitely have hair all over my neck and underside of chin, with some sprigs down the middle of my neck down to my clavicles. I wonder if some females are actually in love with some man who fits the neckbeard image.

 

I actually think that the label of neckbeard can be a fun and positive thing to call ourselves and strive for.

 

And technically, grown females are supposed to be naturally fatter than grown males... to some degree.

Edited December 30, 2014 by GuillermoGage

[VanillaChip 71]

Wut.

Perhaps you are trolling...

 

I also live in an area where I am a white person surrounded by black people. Black people that have a trashy antagonistic vendetta against white people and openly express it as a socially accepted thing. I live in Indianapolis, where this is a very real part of being a white person. But.. uh, I still hate any spelling of the "N" word and refuse to use it and try not to even think it. In my opinion, so many black people are not fully aware of their history that using a classic racial slur on people gives them a connection to their ancestry that they haven't earned/don't deserve. Also because the N word is just empty and meaningless. Unless you are talking about the Gayones from outer space (the lack of spacing between Gay and ones is intentional). In the immortal words of Patrick Star, Finland!

 

In my opinion nine-year-old black boys on the playground have no special ironic brotherhood cultural construct to deserve/have privelige to the phrase "bitch ass nigga". It is just an impressionable and empty endorsement going on commercialization of racial separatism culture.

 

And I actually have heard that on the way to check the mail or put in laundry at my apartment complex.

 

But yeah the N word is a most detestable and cowardly part of western history and I prefer it to be antiquated.

Me trolling? Nope. Why would you assume that? I've got other synonyms for the N-word too. 

[Lisa 5,552]

"Furthermore"

I don't really know why, but when I see people use it in an argument, for example, I just feel like messaging that person and telling them to stop using it. Lol.

 

"You're not funny"

Well sorry that your humour doesn't match mine

 

"Friendzone"

Just an excuse used in place of saying "I'm too shy to ask my crush out."

[GreyScholar 1,584]

I get really angry when someone tries using the words 'brainwashed' or 'indoctrinated' when it comes to talking to others about my beliefs, and I consider it poor and distasteful to push aside the beliefs of another using such words and suggesting that what they think or believe is not there own.

[Mouse 302]

I find the phrase "get a life" to be incredibly rude and belittling. While most people seem to see it as a mild insult (hell, it was even in MLP once if I remember correctly) it frustrates me every time I hear it.

[CC_Maud_Pie 6,431]

I find the phrase "get a life" to be incredibly rude and belittling. While most people seem to see it as a mild insult (hell, it was even in MLP once if I remember correctly) it frustrates me every time I hear it.

Too many people on the internet say this. I consider this cyber bullying.

[Tameless 979]

I hate when kids say: YOLO.

 

Gosh that drives me crazy..

[Shift 4,271]

I usually don't like people who use 'retarded' or 'gay' or 'fag' as insults, as someone has mentioned. I also don't like the words 'twerk', 'yolo', and 'swag' (I actually liked the word 'Swagger' a lot because of Pokemon and it was actually one of my favorite moves, but then 'swag' became a thing).

 

I'm not really sensitive to words anyway, so it doesn't really matter what words you use in the long run for me, but just don't swear every other word or use 'swag' or 'yolo' in a sentence.