White girls dancing in fields wearing a long patterned skirt and crop top
It is:
A RACIAL SLUR.
JUST as bad as the “n” slur, the “k” slur, or the “r” slur.
G*psy is a term used to derogatorily describe an ethnicity/people that everybody apparently forgets exists: the Romani.
Stop using this slur on your shirts, jewellery, and in your metaphysical shops.
Stop using a terrible slur against a thriving people for your own profit or benefit.
Stop using a slur against a thriving people to describe yourself as “Adventurous uwu”.
Stop using this word.
You are not a “g*psy”
You are a fucking asshole.
Reblogging because I’ve been ignorant of this in the past as well, and I’d rather others don’t have to learn the hard way like I did.
Relatedly, “g*pped” (used to mean “cheated” or “ripped off”) is derived from the g-slur, and is not okay to say.
(I always spelled it with a “ji” in my head and had no idea they were connected until friends called me out. If you didn’t know that doesn’t make you a bad person, but now you DO know, and you can do better!)
Yup. I made this mistake as well (and I think even in the same way) until someone pointed it out to me, including that its derivation is predicated upon racist stereotypes of Roma as swindlers and cheats. I was angry with myself because by then I’d become well aware of the level of systemic, institutionalized hate Roma face, especially in Europe.
I literally only have one rule in my writing and it is this:
No matter what I put my characters through, they make it. They get to make it to the end of the story and have everything work out and be ok.
Because that’s the story I need. So it’s the kind I write.
If you want a piece of writing advice: write a story that is what you needed to hear at whatever age your target demographic is. I can guarantee you there’ll be someone out there who needs to hear it as much as you did. And maybe you’ll help them the same way someone else’s story did for you.
For some reason, this hit home and I never realized it that I did this for my stories too
This is on point and I support this. This is also the best argument I’ve ever seen against the whole idea that a story is only good if someone dies.
You get it. We get it. And that’s immensely reassuring.
ooh definitely! i’d thought of the second point, but i’d never considered the first one! also it’s probably worth mentioning that scott knows that eme is right here – given what he says to eleanor in the next episode (”i belong to you”) and his secret role as king of the maroon island
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