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sasha_feather ([personal profile] sasha_feather) wrote2009-06-05 05:19 pm
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Not trying to take your insults away from you

Here are some insults and epithets that are ungendered and not ableist.

From dharma_slut-- (I've taken out a few that I dislike for one reason or another, click the link for full list):

blundering, brutish, feckless, foolish,

heedless, impulsive, inadvertent, inconsiderate,

indelicate, insensitive, instinctive, mechanical,

negligent, oblivious, outrageous,

rash, rude, selfish, senseless, tactless,

thoughtless, uncaring, unconscious, undiplomatic,

unheeding, unintended, unmeant, unmindful,

unpremeditated, unreasoning, untactful,

unwise, vacant, witless, abrupt, abusive,

bad-mannered, barbarian*, barbaric*, barbarous*, blunt,

boorish, brusque, brutish, cheeky,

churlish, coarse, crabbed, crude, curt,

discourteous, graceless, gross, gruff, ignorant,

impertinent, impolite, impudent,

inconsiderate, insolent, insulting, intrusive,

loutish, low, obscene, offhand, peremptory,

raw, scurrilous, short, surly, uncivil,

uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured*, uneducated,

ungracious, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined,

vulgar...


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Others:

Ridiculous, silly,

sour, spoiled, putrid, rancid,

raw, uncooked, smells like wet dog,

unproofed, full of weeds, untilled, had no beta reader, unsexy,

goofy, grimy, out of proportion, out of tune, out of balance,

not on the level, unfair, all hat and no cattle,

And just plain BAD.

ETA more: cracked leather, trims no trees, tarnished

*Please see comments at LJ concerning possible racist connotations of these terms.

[identity profile] sparkymonster.livejournal.com 2009-06-06 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Barbarian is fine in some cases, but not in other. I would not call a POC "barbarian" or "uncivilized" given that big chunks of the history of racism have been about declaring non-white peoples as....uncivilized and barbaric, and thus not fully human and in need of conquering.

[identity profile] sasha-feather.livejournal.com 2009-06-06 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
One that I took off her original list was "savage" for that reason-- in my own head I have racist associations with that word, and I just would not use it as an insult!