Talk:Flower/@comment-83.88.224.244-20150426215331/@comment-53539-20150427120401

Okay just to explain it; I only used it because while a slur, its the word people ARE using.

If this was something that had to be word-for-word recording, correcting it likeyou guys have done would then make the statement wrong and us at fault for misquoting it. This isn't something worth arguing about this, and since we're not linking to the quotes per post because it would reflect bad on us, on this occasion swapping words is fine.

There were actually about a dozen quoted words I saw when I gathering the reaction words to put there, and "masculine" was already a attempt at political correctness on my part. I didn't know which of the words to use. I.... Never saw "transgender" used. Saying that, of the words that didn't make it on here, I also didn't use "queer", "drag queen" "lesbian", "tom boy" (though this one is mostly harmless) and most of the non-sense crap the fans are coming up with on this.

In addition... I didn't realise the word was politically incorrect nor did I know the word "transgender". So that was a little naivety on my part. I came from Essex in England, UK... Where "Transvestite" is spoken as a descriptive word and is not intended as a slur.

I know other more politically correct words like "obese" and ""adolescents" and I know not to use other slurs like "Jap" and "wog"... so give me that much credit... I just didn't know there was a word for that instance. I'm not a dictionary/thesaurus... >_<'

Yeah... So that was my bad. I won't deny that, I'm cursing my ignorance on the word. O_O