Terms that bother you

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    Are there any terms that really bother you/you don't like?

    I really do not like the term "pet owner" for example. I have never, not once, thought I "owned" our cat. I see pets as family, and I find it kind of demeaning to your pets say you own a cat. I don't know why I'm so bothered by this term, but I really don't like it. It just makes me think that pets can be treated as property, or something, when they have lives and feelings, too.
     
    Referring to someone as "bitch" or a group as "bitches".

    It feels dehumanizing. Whenever I was in highschool and overheard the phrase "how many bitches do you get", it made me strangely uneasy. It always made me think of how I would feel if someone referred to my sister that way.

    That's the simplest term I can think of, generally anything dehumanizing I dislike.
     
    Friend zoned is a term that definitely annoys me a bit lately. :x As a girl it really bothered me when a guy was nice to me solely because they wanted to date, motives like that are offputting and creepy. So as a girl hearing the term 'friend zoned' makes it seem like as the girl I'm the one at fault for saying no, when a lot of the time that's just not the case.

    also what zeostar said too
    I'll probably come back here as I remember more. :D;
     
    ZeoStar said:
    Referring to someone as "bitch" or a group as "bitches".
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    Sheep said:
    Friend zoned
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    For me, that's less of an issue with the words themselves and more of an issue with context/how they're used.

    With "bitch" in that context, it's more the casual demeaning of a person that bothers me that the use of a specific word because there's plenty of circumstances where that word doesn't feel that way to me. Same as with friendzone, it's the entitlement to another person that often accompanies its use that irks me. Like, if you can say it and just be like "and that's okay, such is life" that's fine. It's using it to mean you've been denied something you were entitled to that's an issue.

    Maybe I'm just being pedantic idk. It just seems unfair to language, and those that use it in ways that are contextually okay, to universally blame either for the human failings of individuals.

    I guess that tracks with my thought patterns. I think that we give some words a disproportionate amounts of power compared to others. I can't think of any terms that bother me purely by the weight of their definition. It's all about context for me.
     
    "Autist" "Aspie" and using autism as a descriptor in general.
    It's just so insulting and shows they don't think of us as actual people.
     
    There isn't a single term that really bothers me in and of itself, but more the context it is used in.

    Like gimmepie calls me a ****/bitch/whatever and I do it in return, cause I know who said it and the context it is in and cause he's a bastard for disrupting my plays every single time. If someone used that word to belittle someone, that's where the problems arise.

    Thinking about it im literally on the same page as gimmepie... what a suprise really lmao
     
    There is a term that's been bothering me for a very long time. Yet, it slipped my mind for so long until it came back crashing into my head like a thunderbolt during a storm. It's a term that I just hate hate hate hate HATE HAT HATE with such a passion it tears me apart whenever I get to hear it: consumer

    I don't know how they pulled it of but that they certainly did. I'm talking about every industry that caters to a larger audience. They somehow managed to popularize that term so heavily that nowadays any normal human is just so so eager to call themselves a "consumer". It is such an abstract term it is dehumanizing and it bothers me so much how people just keep on using it as if it's some sort of title.

    You know what's a consumer? A car that sucks up all the fuel it gets and when it doesn't it just stops. It needs fuel to stay alive. It demands it for its well being.

    You know what I picture in my head every time people bring up the term consumer? I always picture industry representatives greedily grinning as they throw literal junk at a mindless blob whose only desire is to devour, to consume anything that gets thrown at it.

    What happened to "customer"? Remember "customer is king"? Did we really give up our humanity for junk? Just...urgh!!! <_<
     
    I'm not sure if it's a thing in English - it probably isn't - but in my country, every HR department will call the workers "collaborators".

    I guess the idea was that it was supposed to be """"humanizing"""" or whatever, but it's that same low key emotional manipulation that corporate loves doing and gosh, how I hate it.

    There isn't anything wrong with working. Even the most die hard communist will tell you that work is a good thing, the problem is when people don't have any control of how they do that work and how the fruit of their work gets allocated.

    Uggh, this corporate speech and things like "we're all a family here" just bother me because like, I'm sorry Veronica, all I want is my paycheck so I won't starve to death. Can we take out the completely unnecessary emotional labor from this?
     
    Baby/child talk used in *adult* situations.
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    Ughhh that's just grosses me out in such a profound way.
     
    Fairy said:
    Baby/child talk used in *adult* situations.
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    Ughhh that's just grosses me out in such a profound way.
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    Oh my god this too!
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    Well those last couple posts took a completely different route all of a sudden... 😂

    I don't really have any specific terms that bother me. What bothers me is society here (dunno how it is abroad) always insisting on labeling everyone and everything. Just let people live their lives, who cares if they're this or that or something else, sheesh....
     
    Ash Ketchup said:
    I totally didn't expect to read that today!
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    That's legit shit they say. Than the greasiest dudes you can imagine will post a pic of kraft dinner and be like "I made dinner for my kitten" or whatever. It's all disgusting.
     
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