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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] glitter-femme.livejournal.com 2009-08-14 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Lots of these are also about class, and used to keep lower-class people in their place.

[identity profile] sasha-feather.livejournal.com 2009-08-14 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That is a really good point.