(April 23, 2019 at 10:15 am)pocaracas Wrote:(April 23, 2019 at 10:02 am)Tiberius Wrote: If the rule already existed, I don’t see why there is a problem now that we’ve made a PSA. We added this to be explicit.
We’re not banning colorful language, we’re banning specific subsets of slurs. “Cunt” is not a slur, IMO, it’s just a vulgar word. It’s the same level as fuck, shit, twat, asshole, etc. These are all fine.
My bold.
That's not what a literal reading of the rule specifies. Gender slurs are banned. Cunt can be used as a gender slur, hence cunt should be banned.
Cunt can also be used in a variety of non-slur ways. It can be used equally against every gender without anyone batting an eye. In Australia it has a neutral and sometimes even positive connotation. It’s not explicitly a gender slur. Can you say the same with the n word? No.