I’m on lemmy.ml but as I’m French, I was reading this comment and was surprised to see removed instead of the french word for “late”.
Is there anything I can do on my end or is it a server setting and I should move to a French one?
I’m on lemmy.ml but as I’m French, I was reading this comment and was surprised to see removed instead of the french word for “late”.
Is there anything I can do on my end or is it a server setting and I should move to a French one?
what fucking profanity filter? damned if I’ve ever seen it
It’s a misnomer. It’s actually a slur filter
Oh, well that’s all right then
It blocks bitch and cunt, neither of which are slurs.
Those are both misogynistic slurs.
At least in Australia, they are very common gender neutral insults. Never heard anyone use it as a slur over here, but I’ve no clue how people in your country use them
“common” and “insult” I believe, but if you think a word that refers to a female dog and a word that refers to a female sex organ are gender-neutral, well…
It’s about cultural context, c*nt is deployed in reference both to men and women in Australia
In the US, too, but the usage is always “you are acting like a woman and being a woman is bad so you are bad”
that’s what ‘slur’ means