non-opression
Towards a non-oppressive lexicon Vol. 1: Gender slurs
This is the first in what I hope is a continuing series investigating language’s subtle role in oppression and working to move away from that.
Popular American culture is continually lowering the bar for communication in favor of being able to colloquially describe our daily lives by stringing together meaningless combinations of expletives and nonsense such as, “Damn, that shit was dope.”