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Excuse me, but "mincing gate?" Mispelling of "gait" aside, is that really an appropriate comment to make in this day and age? I'm getting a bit bored of feeling

Excuse me, but "mincing gate?" Mispelling of "gait" aside, is that really an appropriate comment to make in this day and age? I'm getting a bit bored of feeling like the HN inappropriateness police. If it's not sexism, it's homophobia... are we going to have a fun time of racism next?

JabavuAdams 15y ago
What are you talking about? I don't think "mincing" means what you think it means. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mince http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mince
- mootothemax 15y ago
  What are you talking about? I don't think "mincing" means what you think it means. I'm going by the mix of results on Google: https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=%22mincing+gait%22&pbx=1&oq=%22mincing+gait%22&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4356l5120l1l5365l2l2l0l0l0l0l118l234l0.2l2l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=f2e3640de917052c&biw=1366&bih=667 https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=... Maybe it's a cultural thing; certainly in the UK at least, "mincer" or "mincing along" are definitely offensive.
  - JabavuAdams 15y ago
    Ok, interesting to know.
tomlin 15y ago
You got all of that from his comment? Damn.
JoeAltmaier 15y ago
Sorry, I had a nagging feeling I misspelled that. The gait is quite typical of someone pulling a load. Check this out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEeTmWA1ALI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEeTmWA1ALI So, I'm sexist and homophobic? I guess I have to be the hyperbole police now. And racist? Rickshaw are common across half the planet, and a dozen 'races'. The highest criticism I would consider fair is, Rickshaw-ist. I cop to that. I think they are emblematic of a class system, similar to sedan chairs. If 'coolie' is considered rude, I apologize. I meant it in the sense coolie definition: an unskilled laborer or porter usually in or from the Far East hired for low or subsistence wages. If some urban slang definition exists that is derogatory, be assured I did not mean it that way.
breckinloggins 15y ago
I'm getting a bit bored of feeling like the HN inappropriateness police. Then have you ever considered not doing it? You really had to stretch on this one.
- DannoHung 15y ago
  Coolie is a racist slur you dumbfuck.

JabavuAdams 15y ago

What are you talking about? I don't think "mincing" means what you think it means. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mince http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mince

mootothemax 15y ago
What are you talking about? I don't think "mincing" means what you think it means. I'm going by the mix of results on Google: https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=%22mincing+gait%22&pbx=1&oq=%22mincing+gait%22&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4356l5120l1l5365l2l2l0l0l0l0l118l234l0.2l2l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=f2e3640de917052c&biw=1366&bih=667 https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=... Maybe it's a cultural thing; certainly in the UK at least, "mincer" or "mincing along" are definitely offensive.
- JabavuAdams 15y ago
  Ok, interesting to know.

tomlin 15y ago

You got all of that from his comment? Damn.

JoeAltmaier 15y ago

Sorry, I had a nagging feeling I misspelled that. The gait is quite typical of someone pulling a load. Check this out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEeTmWA1ALI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEeTmWA1ALI So, I'm sexist and homophobic? I guess I have to be the hyperbole police now. And racist? Rickshaw are common across half the planet, and a dozen 'races'. The highest criticism I would consider fair is, Rickshaw-ist. I cop to that. I think they are emblematic of a class system, similar to sedan chairs. If 'coolie' is considered rude, I apologize. I meant it in the sense coolie definition: an unskilled laborer or porter usually in or from the Far East hired for low or subsistence wages. If some urban slang definition exists that is derogatory, be assured I did not mean it that way.

breckinloggins 15y ago

I'm getting a bit bored of feeling like the HN inappropriateness police. Then have you ever considered not doing it? You really had to stretch on this one.

DannoHung 15y ago
Coolie is a racist slur you dumbfuck.