It's been happening incredibly fast. Every generation has been less racist, sexist & homophobic than the one before. Even within 10 years, you see attitudes change and racist, sexist, homophobic sentiments which were acceptable disappear from movies & polite conversation. https://twitter.com/buyaknife/status/996055041386696704 …
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It got less and less acceptable to define people by their gender/racial/sexual identity, less because it was policed and more because not doing so became more & more associated with being a good person and then just a normal person. I am afraid this is regressing somewhat now.
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Felt to be disparaging.
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It's hard to explain a cultural connotation of a word to someone who doesn't live in the culture. It;s like how 'Paki' is seen as racist whilst 'Brit' is not despite them both being simple abbreviations. 'Bird' was said in sexist contexts whilst 'bloke' was not so it got tarred.
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How about “bint”? That one sounds disparaging to my ear, but it’s a North American ear.
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Bint is so disparaging that it's only ever used ironically.
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