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A gimp is a man dressed in a bondage suit used for BDSM sexual roleplay. Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings.
by chongli 2y ago
A gimp is a man dressed in a bondage suit used for BDSM sexual roleplay. Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings. The GIMP software might as well have the name of a curse word like fuck or shit as far as its appropriateness in public discourse goes.
- redeeman 2y agoyeah well.. says more about those who even bring that up... most people probably dont know that
- petee 2y agoAnyone who's seen "Pulp Fiction", or hasnt been under a rock, or older than a young teen would have encountered the term or concept
- aspaviento 2y agoI don't think more than half of the world population have been under a rock.
- jcelerier 2y agoAnyone whose native language is english who's seen "Pulp Fiction", or hasnt been under a rock, or older than a young teen would have encountered the term or concept As a french, the first and only thing that comes to mind when I hear the word "gimp" is the software, not the kink. It was shared a few weeks ago in my company chat because someone wanted to do a photo edit and absolutely no one even made any semblance of joke related to it
- enriquto 2y agoThanks for the clarification (as well as the suggestion of looking at the urban dictionary, in the other comment). My point is that when you say: > Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings This refers solely to the tiny percent of the world where people are native english speakers. Elsewhere, it already means the image processing software, if anything at all.
- jrm4 2y ago[dead]
- veggieroll 2y agoLiterally, get over it. Even my (extremely conservative) church group doesn't have an issue with it. 1) because most people don't know BDSM terminology and 2) gimp has other connotations so it's not even obvious that was intended and 3) most people aren't terminally online and 100% don't care as long as the program works. I've never had a problem sharing it. And no one outside tech has ever brought up BDSM when I tell them about the program or help them install it.
- troyvit 2y agoEh. Where I work they probably wouldn't care about the BDSM aspects but they are pretty sensitive to ableist slurs, which is primarily why I recommend Photopea instead of GIMP when they need to do Photoshop-ish things.
- ryanmcbride 2y agoThe cool thing about life is that, we don't have to get over it. Instead we can advocate for change. And there's literally nothing you can do about it lol.
- veggieroll 2y agoFork it then.
- ryanmcbride 2y agoAnother cool thing about open source is that I can do that while still trying to affect change in the core repo :D There's really no "shut up and go away" that you can give me that will work, because you aren't some grand FOSS arbiter, you're just some rando on the internet like me.
- jrm4 2y agoSigh. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. An extremely conservative church group is perhaps the worst place to try to figure this out; y'all will self-censor naturally. Anyway, I teach IT, in a department -- shared with Communications -- and can absolutely assure you that this name is a no-go. I get that people don't like "politics" and "optics" and such, but that's what's happening here.
- zahlman 2y agoOr many, many other things (https://www.wordnik.com/words/gimp https://www.wordnik.com/words/gimp).