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Originally Posted by Shedwannabe
...its probably on the same level as the insensitivity of sports teams having caricatures of Native Americans as mascots, or having a black woman dress up as Aunt Jemima, or having whites go in black-face to make fun of blacks. I see them as pretty juvenile, but much is our culture is pretty juvenile, so I just choose not to participate, and let my reasons be known.
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Did you really mean to put racism on the same level as using slang?
Racism is, without a doubt, much more offensive.
Words have power over you only if you allow it. Being offended by a slang, non-vulgar term for
breast does seem backwards when you consider the slag terms for our other body parts we use. I can think of many of them as I sit here on my gluteus maximus, butt, hiney, rear, rump, buttocks, badonkadonk, behind, booty, bum, can, onion, patootie, petard, whoopie cakes, posterior, cheeks, caboose, tail, duff, fanny, hams, haunches, moon, backside, or tush typing this post and all of them can be used in a Scrabble game (well.. maybe not badonkadonk...).
