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Should bitch be added to the word filter?
(hexbear.net)
No because we need to bitch about things sometimes
We could always just ban people for using it to be sexist if we want to keep it for this context
I believe that already gets posts removed, at least.
no I love being a dumb bitch
Mixed feelings, because it is used in a positive sense in many contexts.
It's similar to queer, still can be an insult but it's been sufficiently reclaimed that a blanket ban doesn't make sense.
Yeah, agreed.
Huh. Funnily enough, at one point bastard would have been a slur, too, but the idea of being "born out of wedlock" has become so silly, at least in parts of the US and I presume other places, that folks don't assign it any real power anymore.
I am a bitch.
I'm a lover
Bitch please
life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we get high
'cause you never know when you're gonna go
oh fuck its been way too long since I listened to Nas
I'll sit this one out. I could take it or leave it.
If we ever get a word swap version of the filter though, request that it swaps it to a complementary emote to 
since Jesse was the master of it's usage.
Yeah, personally I naturally stopped using the word ages ago, but idk what the sentiment is in general. Would be interested to hear people's thoughts.
My partner made it very clear it was something I needed to dump (would use in heated gamer moments).
So I dumped it. It's not particularly difficult.
Edit, though that was just her, obviously there's the reclaimed usage and so it's not cut and dry.
how I feel about bitch really depends on how it's used, so I'd be fine with not adding it. But I'm not gonna fight if people want to add it either.
I've been mentally preparing for this possibility for years. Go ahead. Censor me some more.
I'd lean no, but ig if people feel strongly about it
ngl I thought we'd already done that
I think the word moist should be banned because whenever I read it I hear an old lady licking her lips in my head.
This is Meredith Brooks erasure
I don't use it much, I'm not fond of it. But I don't think it's strong enough to warrant filtering and has various contextual uses where it's fine.
I actually dislike "Karen" significantly more and think the case for that word is higher.
No
Yes it's speciesist
Surprised it wasn't already, to be honest!
no
I’m not crazy about it since I think it has obvious sexiest overtones, but agree with other posters that it probably should be judged on a case-by-case basis.
My personal way of judging gendered insults is if the masc equivalent is less insulting, it’s probably sexist. In this case I feel like calling someone a dog is less insulting than calling them a bitch so it is a sexist insult.
No (I'm a bitch); I think we're broadly well-mannered and well-modded enough around here that we can evaluate words on a case-by-case basis.
People here say that we're mature enough to use it correctly, but I've occasionally seen stuff here like "my boss the b-slur" and "my ex the b-slur". It's uncommon, but it happens.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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