Some of the best things anyone has ever said to me have been utterly offensive to me at first, but onl reflection I've made changes that have improved my life for the better. In order to think, you have to risk being offensive. More commonly than not, the more peoplesnowflakes whine about PC crap, the less likely they are to have actually accomplished anything. Also being usually incompetent, the only control they are able to try to exercise is to control the free speech of others. Poor snowflakes get more easily offended. Be met with people who challenge you to push yourself to work around your limitations and put them to shame! May your life be filled with people who don't pull punches, who use whatever words work best, and may your situation be mitigated if not treated. PC people are among the worst I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. So the patient had to wait till the visitors were gone before certain needs could be met. I've seen nurses driven away from caring for a patient when they were speaking quite candidly with the patient and the visitors took exception to the nurse using "offensive" terms. PC scumbags shove their noses in, try to impose their will on others, make people afraid to talk in any sort of open way with other people, and in the end make life much harder for those they're claiming to protect. I have seen and heard this so often, especially from those in your position (or 'ethnic minorities', those of us who 'don't swing the right way' etc etc). Thank you!ĮTA: Thanks, everyone! I think I have enough, now - particularly on the gimp question.The effect is that people are nervous/not candid with me in day-to-day life for fear of causing offence. My story is set in the US, in the 1980s, but I welcome any related info from other English-speaking cultures. Can anyone please help me with this? I really want to use this concept in my story, and it's driving me mad that I can't come up with the term! I wikipedia'd the hell out of this question, but although I found many articles about developmental psychology, I can't find any mention of a term to describe someone who has had trouble with a particular stage, and the effects on that person as an adult. And I *think* it may have begun with the letter P. If it helps, this term was coined (I think) fairly early in the history of psychiatry - I think we learned about it between Freud and Piaget. If I recall correctly, this term is one that has entered lay usage as well (like "anal retentive", or "codependent"), where it's used more broadly to refer to someone who is immature or emotionally stunted. But I can't think of the term, or the psychologist! When I was in college, I took an intro Psych course, and I remember reading about a psychologist who coined a term to describe someone who, because of some traumatic experience, is stuck at a certain stage of development. I'm writing a story where someone uses the word pre-1994, and I'm wondering what connotations it would have had at that point.Ģ. Or alternatively, real dictionaries (like those assembled at ) are completely unaware of the sexual usage. I have googled this, but every reference I find just restates that gimp is "a derogatory term used to refer to a sexual submissive person," and then they cite Pulp Fiction as evidence. My question: did the word gimp have this sexual meaning anywhere, to anyone, before Pulp Fiction? Or did people just have no idea what the term meant, and when they saw the movie, they assumed from context that it must refer to some BDSM practice? Can anyone cite a BDSM-related use of the word gimp that predates Pulp Fiction? But then, circa 1994, Pulp Fiction came out, and suddenly everyone and their mom was using gimp to refer to someone who takes part in SM scenes. Now, when I was a kid, a gimp was just another mean word for cripple. I have two word-related questions that are really bugging me.ġ.
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