What makes a bad word bad?

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2-01-2012 @ 5:07PM

(cutaia) said...

Just to point out the blogger's own answer to this question:

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"Landslide means 'I noticed it once or twice, then I started seeing it in a lot of places' – call it confirmation bias, but when I start seeing people even naming their toons as such on live realms, it gives me pause. Even if the term isn’t as widespread in the areas of WoW you frequent, it’s still a dangerous philosophy I’ve seen come tumbling out of people’s mouths in various forms. It was a way of pinning a term on a really crap concept and I stand by it."

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You can debate whether terms like "slut plate" or "skank pants" or anything like that are actually detrimental or not, but let's not get wrapped up in the semantics of whether or not you've actually heard the specific example she chose to use to start the dialogue.

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