Timeline for Is the term "aspie" derogatory?
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| Aug 23, 2020 at 19:02 | vote | accept | Lilienthal | ||
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 20, 2016 at 22:25 | answer | added | LHand | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 21, 2015 at 16:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/668100325530816512 | ||
| Nov 18, 2015 at 13:12 | comment | added | Joseph Rogers | reading this question calls to my mind the Tim Minchin song "Prejudice" youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 23:57 | comment | added | Superbest | Who decides what is derogatory? I've seen many people use it as an insult, and many people who felt insulted by it. If the point is to avoid making anyone feel offended, I think it's definitely worth finding an alternative term. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 17:35 | answer | added | ard | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 17:10 | answer | added | Scott Seidman | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 16:31 | answer | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 15:25 | answer | added | ard | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 13:05 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | @AndrewLeach One must be careful when using your suggested criterion "whether the objects of the epithet use it about themselves." More than once, I've heard black people using the n-word to refer to each other, but I, being white, had better not use that word. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 9:10 | comment | added | Pharap | It's possible that someone might take it offensively as using an 'ie' suffix might cause them to believe you are implying aspergers is not a serious condition. (Such people are the kinds of people derogatory words were created for) | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 2:46 | comment | added | Daniel Stowers | Aspie is like a lot of terms; it will depend who uses it and why. I describe myself as afakasi (half-caste, in Samoan). I use it to make my heritage clear because I'm white. But afakasi can be used by full-blooded Samoans both as a way to tease friends or as a full-on pejorative term to insult someone. Personally, I don't mind aspie, and I'm on the scale. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 17:20 | answer | added | Mental Mouse | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 15:53 | comment | added | Viktor Mellgren | @user568458, I'm of the same approach as you, but apparently I got downvoted :) | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 15:37 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | @Mitch good point - and diminutives can be used affectionately, and also can be used patronisingly. So I think it's all down to context and how it's used case-by-case - it could be used either way. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 15:17 | comment | added | Lilienthal | @GEdgar I don't, I asked this question as I didn't want to edit the term out of an answer on another site without establishing that it is indeed likely to cause offence. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 15:04 | comment | added | GEdgar | If you don't know whether it is derogatory, then don't use it yourself. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 15:02 | comment | added | gerrit | A word that is considered insulting by many aspies would be assburgers. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 14:59 | comment | added | gerrit | One could ask the same about the term ”gay”. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 13:30 | answer | added | Viktor Mellgren | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 13:07 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 12:49 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Basically, it comes down to whether the objects of the epithet use it about themselves. If they do, it could well be fine [cf @gerrit]; if not, it's unlikely to be [my own position]. That, and the fact that two diametrically-opposed answers are possible and equally valid, tend to make the question "Primarily opinion-based". | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 12:45 | answer | added | gerrit | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 12:38 | comment | added | Mitch | It depends. The '-ie ' ending is certainly diminutive. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 12:19 | comment | added | gerrit | My personal opinion as an aspie is that I like the term aspie. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 11:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 11:19 | answer | added | Andrew Leach♦ | timeline score: 59 | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 10:55 | answer | added | A.P. | timeline score: 25 | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 10:47 | history | asked | Lilienthal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |