(September 13, 2012 at 12:01 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:(September 13, 2012 at 12:05 am)greneknight Wrote: I offended some of them in another thread when I thought "trans" was short for transvestite and not wanting to say the shortened form, seeing how you don't like it, I said "transvestite" to their outrage.
Why wouldn't we like trans? XD
And I wasn't offended at all: I was being dramatic.
Not at all. You were very gracious. But I do want to be careful of my choice of words. I thought trans would be too brief and seeing that ShellB pointed out that Jap was rude, I wanted to be more cautious with trans. But I didn't know "transvestite" was more offensive.
