ravenblooDDarkdreams Posted:

Out of curiosity, what madlib words make you automatically vote no?

@insult_homosexual. I’m not gay, but I strongly oppose the use of derogatory terms towards those who are. Even on a parody site. I’m on the fence about @insult_racist, currently not auto-dumping it because it’s broad-based (no one’s safe, so it falls, to me, under total equal opportunity, like South Park uses. But I stopped watching South Park when “gay” was used as a common derogatory term). If any other group-specific words get their own @insult, I’m not likely to use those either. Especially religious or racial ones.

In a similar vein, while I love the concept of a parody male-supremacist forum, by tying it to Christians I’m going to vote it down every time. And I’m not Christian, I just believe that by tying the two together, a slam is being made against Christians in particular, rather than against misogynistic males in general.

I voted down several of the “fine upstanding member of society” submissions last week for similar reasons, when I felt it was completely gratuitous, and not cleverly in-character.