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Why are their people who get mad easliy?
Or a tiny poke sets off their nerve?

why do none of my friends want to actually talk to me on skype? not type speaking but speak! my IRL friend from america and my bf are ignoring me... i know they are there. i've even tried type speaking to them, and they have ignored me.... what fun!!! crying

IRL friends. zCB friends are talking to me

So you guys know that word I don't like people to use around me.

Well, I've been thinking about the fact that it's so common. Think about what it is: a derogatory term for a group of people. Yet there are many other words that are basically the exact same thing to different groups (race, sexuality, etc.), and those words are treated a lot more severely. I hear them very rarely, and the person who said them always, without fail, gets in some degree of trouble for it -- I've seen someone get a warning for doing so in this guild. Yet this particular epithet, while it's arguably the very same thing, is used constantly, by plenty of people who claim to be tolerant, and I've never seen anyone even get a reprimand for it. Not even in class.

It's not fair.

I'm shaking so badly right now. I cannot keep this pent up. It's not fair. It's not right. I can't stand seeing this happen, seeing it used at least twice per ordinary thread even in "safe", "tolerant" guilds like this one, without even a comment from anyone else. I hate being the only one who cares. I hate being the only one who seems to realize that it is, in fact, an offensive term, and should, by all logic, be right up there with the thirty-or-so words that would automatically raise a PG movie to an R with a single usage.

...if it is that word then we've not been paying close enough attention at all.

I've been sad and upset all day because my boyfriend is being his same old selfish b*****d again emo
From several horrific things that happened in my childhood, I have severe "night terrors." Where my dreams are so real to me that I sometimes don't wake up unless someone shakes me - or I wake up shuddering and shaking and unable to move for hours at a time. x_x
I had an especially frightening dream about intelligent zombies - one of the few "fictional" things that scares me. Slow zombies? Easy to kill. Intelligent ones, that can smell where you are and can rally other zombies to come in and get you? We're gonna need a bigger gun.
(Also, I use the term 'zombies' loosely - this can included "Infected," the Rage virus, etc. Things that don't necessarily kill you but make you canniballistic and give you super senses.)
So I wanted the boyfriend to give me some form of comfort - I've been avoiding actually talking to him lately, we mostly converse through text - and he blew me off. Just completely blew me off for his xbox. ._. /contemplates breaking up moar

Also, the way I see it, no word is insulting unless you allow it to be. I was raised in a manner that we use swear words and insults in an endearing manner so we would never be provoked. (It doesn't work perfectly, btw; we can call each other rotten sonsabitches, but if someone ELSE calls ANYONE in our family that... lololol handgun. ¬3¬)

But I do understand how helpless you feel when someone uses any word in a derogatory manner. Especially one so common among younger people.
All I can tell you is that maybe you should bring it up with the guild moderators. They can send out an announcement or just tweak the rules to state no derogatory terms be used? I dunno.

I've seen it used by a few certain users before.. Not fully spelled out but the same word none the less.

Emi -

I dunno why you would think that :c