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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...


----

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.

Date: 2009-06-05 10:33 pm (UTC)
jesse_the_k: Bare dorsal Paul Gross from Slings & Arrows (naked & proud)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
Why that's just ....

LOVELY!

/runs and hides

Date: 2009-06-05 11:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com
If you want to really follow the rabbit down the hole, though, "Barbarian" is a racist term as well.

The ancient Greeks used the word to describe the Teutons to the north, because they thought their language was just a bunch of unintelligible "baar baar baar baar". It's pretty much the Classical world's equivalent of a white person characterizing Asian languages as Ching Chong (http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/11/rosie-ching-chong-odonnell-with-subtitles/)...

Date: 2009-06-06 12:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wyoluvr.livejournal.com
i can't use barbarian...my inner voice just says "but that just means that someone doesn't speak Greek!"

Date: 2009-06-06 10:08 am (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (community organizer vera cruz)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Yeah, ditto the racial connotations of barbaric.

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

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