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The acronym was coined first, with the letter G being added to -IMP as a reference to "the gimp" in the scene from the 1994 Pulp Fiction film.[8] - Wikipedia h
by egypturnash 4y ago
The acronym was coined first, with the letter G being added to -IMP as a reference to "the gimp" in the scene from the 1994 Pulp Fiction film.[8]
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#History
- chungy 4y agoThe movie in question doesn't even make the pejorative version of the word clear. The best you could come out of it is some weird fetish thing.
- egypturnash 4y agoI am an artist who is quite happy for part of her living to be "drawing porn" and I find "The GIMP", considered solely as a word for "a weird fetish thing", to be a singularly tacky name.