This Just In: Words Mean Something

I was going to go into a long diatribe about how much internalized misogyny the wow_ladies community suffers from and how irritating it is that people are stuck on the “BUT WORDS EVOLVE AND CHANGE” argument when they’re called on offensive statements (is it really that hard to look up the word you’re called on, apologize for what happened and move on instead of expecting other people to do the legwork for you? Really?), but instead I’ll leave you with the above handy-dandy macro. If you’d like a copy of it, it is located on my Photobucket’s Macros folder.

So. Gaming community. Words. They have meanings. LOOK THEM UP. Your personal definitions mean NOTHING when you are dealing with communities that have populations that are larger than your circle of friends.

categories Matojo is a Snarky Bitch, Tool Box, WHARRGARBL | admin | datetime March 10, 2010 4:10 pm

4 Comments

  • By Kareth, March 10, 2010 @ 4:16 pm

    …and knowing is half the battle!

    *shot*

  • By Rosz, March 10, 2010 @ 4:28 pm

    That is a fabulous image. So many uses (and it warms the cockles of this librarian’s heart *grin*)

  • By Anvharan, March 18, 2010 @ 7:46 pm

    I just found this blog via Psynister’s tweets, and I really love it. I especially love this post– I’m on LJ and usually avoid WoW Ladies for just this reason.

  • By admin, March 19, 2010 @ 10:54 am

    Thank you very much! Yeah, I’ve removed w_l from my friends list and really just poke at it from time to time for helping out with class questions. I lack the patience to deal with the crap.

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