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Originally posted by UnseenWorld
While I'm with you on silly substitutions like "challenged" for "handicapped" or "crippled," or "African American" for "black," a word like "whore" or "skank" has no nonoffensive use as a descripter of a living person.
Unlike "handicapped" or "black," the word "skank" or "slut" can't adequately be defined without noting the fact that they are tems of sheer contempt or disgust.
As a guy who's pretty libertarian himself, I don't think anyone who's baring his ignorance and inner ugliness by using such terminology should be banned, but I see no particular harm in giving such airhead and punks a swift kick in the intellectual nuts.
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The use of "skank" or "slut" have there place, as you are correct they are terms of sheer contempt/disgust, so feel free to give me a swift kick.