I've been thinking about the ability for words to harm lately, and which ones sting and why. I'm hurt if someone calls me fat or a bitch or a slut. There's something at work here with terms that you can't force away from yourself. Slurs that mean, "what you are, which is is obviously a bad thing," stick. I consider "bitch" and "slut" to be slurs that basically mean, "woman." Ditto fat, to a certain extent. (It's kind of hard to explain, and probably very idiosyncratic.)
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