You know what is really damn easy? Erasing these words from your vocabulary. All you have to do is stop saying them.
You know what is really hard?
Confronting people on their use of same language.
We aren’t even asking you to do the hard work. We aren’t asking you to tell other people to stop using that language. We aren’t asking you to confront other people on their use of that language. We aren’t asking you to explain why it is problematic, to answer people’s questions, to deal with their redirection tactics, or to handle the attacks on and harassment of the people negatively affected by that language that such confrontations always seem to draw.
You don’t have to take the brunt of it. You don’t have to deal with the negative consequences. You don’t have to face employment discrimination, street harassment, caretaker abuse, and other people’s general cluelessness about our lives. You get to sit tight in your privilege, enjoying it without even realizing you’re doing it.
All you have to do is cut a few words out of your speaking and/or writing vocabulary. That’s it.

— A brief PSA on language [via]

I don’t know of anyone with a doctorate degree in abortion, nor of any programs where you can get a doctorate in abortion. “Abortionist” is also a problematic term for this reason. “Abortion provider” is the preferred term by most. Many doctors who provide abortions are OB/GYNs: they are obstetricians and gynecologists. Some nurses also administer medical abortions.

— How to (Un)pack for a Real Conversation About Abortion [via]

But today I give thanks to Sharon Stone, for perhaps her ignorant, idiotic words will remind all of us how fucking inane it is to invoke “karma” in most conversation i.e. “Karma is a bitch.” KARMA IS NOT A BITCH. Saying “karma is a bitch” to couch in hippie moral superiority a base expression of “schadenfreude” is highly irritating

— Can Sharon Stone Teach The (First) World To Stop Talking About “Karma” Already?

I saw and heard boys imitate presumed faggots and hurl the fag epithet so frequently at one another that I came to call it a “fag discourse.” I use the term fag and not gay, advisedly. Boys at River High repeatedly differentiated fags from gay men. For these boys gay men could still be masculine, whereas a fag could never be masculine. Thus the term “gay” functioned as a generic insult meaning “stupid” or “lame” whereas “fag” invoked a very specific gendered slur, directed at other boys. For these boys a fag was a failed, feminine man who, in all likelihood, was also gay.

— ‘Dude, You’re a Fag’