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Its true that potato head might be borderline. I suppose I prefer to make the effort and adjust my choices when someone points out my error, than make no effort
by TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Its true that potato head might be borderline. I suppose I prefer to make the effort and adjust my choices when someone points out my error, than make no effort and ignore feedback I am getting from others. Potato head was new to me and seemed like a good idea, and I did use it against myself. I generally will not insult anyone else's intelligence, but I do suppose that calling myself a potato head might perpetuate that kind of thing. Thanks for the suggestion!
- jessekv 4y agoTo me, git is ageist.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoThat’s fair. Where I grew up no one uses that, I just pulled it from some suggestions on Reddit. I’m not actually familiar with how it’s used.
- aflag 4y agoDoesn't fool fall in the same category?
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoI think of a fool as someone who makes a bad choice, but this isn’t the same as intelligence. Someone can be very smart and very foolish. Also a typo made me realize that “tool” is perhaps a good non ableist insult.
- kgwgk 4y agoFool, silly and goofball are even less subtle. Useless seems the epitome of ableism, but what do I know - here it’s presented as a good alternative to ableist words: https://web.augsburg.edu/english/writinglab/Avoiding_Ableist_Language.pdf https://web.augsburg.edu/english/writinglab/Avoiding_Ableist...