Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-26427856-20160708200357

Angel Emfrbl wrote:

Tell me, can I insult myself? I can put myself down, but I cannot insult myself. If I was saying I was not a "furry" or "weaboo", both equally undermining terms, would you react the same....? You should as their as awful terms as "transvestite". "nerd", "geek" and "dork"... Yet people often say "proud to be..." any of these terms. What is so undermining about the term "furry"? I myself am a furry, but to me the term isn't offensive. It can be used in offensive ways, however, but even then I try not to let it bother me. I am somewhat proud to be a furry (only somewhat due to some of the misconceptions about it), and I am definitely proud to be a nerd. But then again I don't get offended very easily unless you know what sets me off, and some people do get offended easily. But this doesn't mean that I am okay with other people publicly (including online) using potentially offensive terms carelessly;​ I am actually quite against it because I don't want others to get offended, mostly because this often causes unnecessary drama, such as that which has been going on here for the past day or two about this very issue.

This being said, I completely support and agree with Angel Emfrbl about how she cannot possibly accurately tell the tale without using the same word that the original person used. I also agree that her use of the word later when describing herself (or rather how it does not apply to herself) is valid because she was attempting to use the term in the same way as the original person did, thereby highlighting the inaccuracy of the original's use of it. For Angel to have used a different (and possibly more accurate/correct) term in that situation would have been improper argumentative form and might have caused potential lack of clarity (possibly moreso than has apparently come from her using the same term). Also when she mentioned that some people think Flower is transgender I think she was describing that as something separate from the person whose headcanon is that Flower is a transvestite, not intending to mean that the two words are interchangeable or mean the same thing.