• Flying Squid
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    1310 months ago

    When did ‘dingbat’ become transphobic?

    Has ‘dingbat’ become a new epithet for trans people?

    Because it apparently originally was the name of an alcoholic drink and has been used to describe a stupid person since 1905.

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/dingbat

    Care to tell us where you heard that the word was transphobic?

    • @HeyJoe
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      210 months ago

      That’s unfortunate for the small local music and dive bar near me called dingbatz then…

      • @Bricriu
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        110 months ago

        If it’s in Clifton, those guys support white power bands 😕

        • @HeyJoe
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          110 months ago

          It is… oh boy. I have only been twice since my friend has a metal band that plays there sometimes. I never knew and I doubt he knows that as well since he is definitely not into that either.

          • @Bricriu
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            110 months ago

            Yeah, it’s definitely not as widely-known a thing as it should be. Plenty of perfectly respectable bands play there too, still… but also some Nazis