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Don’t Let The Wimps Grind You Down
You Can’t Make Anything Worse By Using Its Real Name
If you are “sensitive,” read something else!
Lately, I’ve noticed that more words are getting asterisked, beeped, or simply represented with a gap, than ever before. YouTubers particularly have started playing this guessing game. Death, suicide, rape, and killing have been wiped from the record, which makes true crime ridiculous: “We don’t know the cause of his beep yet, but it is rumoured a serial beep was in the area.” wtf?
Rape was first degraded to “sexual assault” — then some true crime Youtubers started using “SA,” which baffled me at first because it sounds like “essay.” “He/she had been essayed” makes no sense at all. Now it’s “beep assault” which sounds as if the victim was attacked by a robot. This keeps changing; some now use a strange farting noise…
You see my point; anyone too “sensitive” to cope with the real words doesn’t have to. If the terminology upsets you, don’t watch true crime. Ignore this advice, and you are choosing to be offended. You could watch videos of fluffy animals doing exercises, or children embarrassing their parents. Or anything else really.
Trust me, it works. Cuteness makes me cringe. I don’t want to drown in syrup, so I don’t…
