let them go to sleep elenwen
Sharks store their urine to their blood/flesh and excrete it through their skin.
This helps most species with their osmosis & metabolism but also makes the flesh tasting quite bad/outright unedible/poisonous in some cases.
Sharks also lack skeletons and have cartilage instead, meaning eating the meat is often time consuming and very tough.
On this one I have no idea. My brother was the fisherman of the family and I never asked âWhy do we only eat the fins?â.
Its overuse dilutes the impact of it, given how often such terms and phrases slip into dialogue.
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Nine years ago, and Blizzard has never resorted to such a directed modern-day slur before or since, particularly not against a female character.
Thereâs also an insidious implication with âitâs okay to use these slurs because theyâre a bad personâ which is that one who subscribes to that view only respects women* as long as they approve of them - which is a common if depressing view.
*for âwomenâ, read any social minority
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This is pretty much the true core of the issue, yeah. With it being an ever-present thing, curses and swears lose all their impact.
Itâs an issue, but I wouldnât describe it as the âtrue coreâ, exactly.
For me thatâs the uncomfortable ease with which some players use gendered slurs in a setting where it has no place.
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Thatâs actually a poor view to take. Thatâs how racist language is perpetuated. Fictional or not, you shouldnât say anything âjust causeâ.
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Thatâs something that I can agree with.
Yes and as a result, it has quite a bit of impact, diluted by overuse in roleplay perhaps, but still something. Another source of that impact when it comes to crafting insults is to personalise them, with the traits of the person being insulted in mind. Itâs true, gender is a rather basic âtraitâ to incorporate into an insult, but it allows for a variety of more specialised words. Ape, harpy, milksop, harridan, ponce, crone, and so on.
are you seriously trying to defend the use of slurs
think very carefully about your answer
Honestly itâs cooler to come up with your own insults you swineherds of Durotar.
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Listen here, You Ranishu Bait.
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Gnomish Thief, Bilgewater scullion, Ogreâs chambermaid, catamite of Uldum.
Edit: You tuskless boar of Hellfire!
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Not any which are senselessly profane and not suited for the medium, no, and I personally try not to use any slur when out-of-character. When in character however, my characters may use colourful language to insult others, if they find themselves driven to slinging insults. A woman that my character finds to be unpleasant might be called a witch and a brawny man that my character considers brainless might be called a lout or an oaf. If the situation really calls for it, more powerful language might be used, but nothing more profane than the sort that Blizzard already has included in the game.
I hope that you donât consider me typing rather mild gendered insults when in-character to be equivalent to a defence of all slurs. I mean, even when concocting his own insults, Aerilen resorted to gendered language with âogreâs chambermaid.â
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Son of a Dung beetle, Kodo Hurder, Dwarven Toilet, Utter Tallstrider face.
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You argued that b***h was considered suitable for the medium, however.
I hope that you donât consider me typing rather mild gendered insults when in-character to be equivalent to a defence of all slurs.
Given that ârather mild gendered insultsâ are also slurs given the inclusion of the word gendered, I suspect you want to re-evaluate your position.
you drop of sweat off of an abominationâs backside!
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Iâd say that it wouldnât be suitable, if it wasnât for the fact that Blizzard themselves has made use of the word. They believed it to be suitable for World of Warcraft, and for Warcraft III too. After all, Sylvanas calls Arthas a son of, well, exactly what she is called by Garrosh. Itâs language they have used sparingly, so Iâd do the same and only use it when it is appropriate for the situation. I disagree with the overuse of it.
My position is that I do not believe using words such as witch, oaf, harpy or blackguard as insults while roleplaying a character is tantamount to defending the use of all slurs, nor do I believe that using the specific word in question when roleplaying a particularly incensed character is tantamount to defending the use of all slurs.
You know what the best insult is? Child, if you call someone a child it just feels so destroying, like:
âYou intolerable Childâ
Just so good.
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