my two cents (or more): Oh also

twocentsormore:

One specific thing about when the patterns I mentioned in the last entry take the form of “DON’T USE THAT WORD”…

I actually have problems with some of the parents doing “ban the R-word” stuff most vehemently because, like with the people not affected by the word the OP mentioned, they are not the…

In many cases I think it’s worse than their voices overrunning us. I don’t even think many of them know we have voices. I’ve seen some of them even act like their child/etc. may not even understand the word or its meaning and it’s their pain as a parent/etc. that makes the word bad.

ETA: And it doesn’t even take understanding the word to get its meaning. The blast of hate speaks for itself.

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   Yeah, I think I remember you linking to something like that. And the scariness of a parent praising her child’s...

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   In many cases I think it’s worse than their voices overrunning us. I don’t even think many of them know we have voices....

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