5 May
2006
5 May
'06
6:58 a.m.
On Thursday 04 May 2006 19:54, Rob was like:
Where I'm sitting, "gimp" is an
insulting term for a handicapped
person,
I didn't know that.
and only became a BDSM related term after the movie
Pulp
Fiction had a character by that name.
I'm sure the bdsm context has been around longer than that.
It'd be like calling a
KDE image editor "kike". (Don't know if that's a naughty word
over there too, but it is here.)
Naughty? Huh? The word Kike is downright offensive in any context.
I think no matter what collection of vowels and
consonants you
put together, sooner or later it's going to upset somebody.
My original point was not about whether there was anything naughty or
offensive about the word 'smack'. I don't do moral outrage generally. I was
merely pointing out that it had put me off trying out some possibly excellent
software because of its connotations. <irony>OK, I'll just call my next
album 'Crap songs I wrote when I was depressed' if it doesn't
matter.</irony>
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
We are the people We've been waiting for.