tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-01:369The Lunatic is in my Headnearly a prosthetic memoryAzure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺2011-03-14T09:04:09Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-01:369:6505527administrative: tag change2011-03-14T09:04:09Z2011-03-14T09:04:09Zpublic0The places formerly known as 'work1' and 'work2' have been re-tagged as 'workplace: domain shop' and 'workplace: survey hell', respectively, on the Dreamwidth side; I've sort of given up on tag maintenance on LJ.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=azurelunatic&ditemid=6505527" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-01:369:6311209moments of wtf (old), with links that have fascinating discussion. 2009-07-08T09:01:36Z2009-07-08T09:01:36Zpublic4Once upon a time I got into a screaming argument with a crazy lady at a bus stop, who was screaming over her shoulder about some "fucking faggot". I took umbrage at this and proceeded to tell her about her inappropriate word choice (the words "homophobic bitch" may have been involved). She didn't take kindly to this; I didn't take kindly to that. Fortunately someone's bus came before the incident escalated further. <br /><br />When she was hired on at my workplace a week later, we did have a chance to talk about that incident. After we cleared up our differences, we got along pretty well. <br /><br /><br />This moment of bizarre reminiscence was brought to you courtesy of <a href="http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/483132.html">a discussion about when and how to voluntarily purge ableist language from one's own vocabulary (after one has come to the reasoned conclusion that a certain word must go) by replacing it with words that more clearly convey the intent without the skeevy ableist overtones</a>. (Link via <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://boojum.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://boojum.livejournal.com/'><b>boojum</b></a></span>)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=azurelunatic&ditemid=6311209" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments