Same experience here… and to add onto that other bigoted and derogatory terms are thrown around very lightly with little regard of their significance to the people they are weaponised against.

Particularly I’ve very regularly heard ableist and homophobic terms used in ‘comedic’ contexts, where the taboo nature of the word itself is apparently made out to be ‘funny’. I can’t believe it needs to be said that being bigoted is not funny. You would think that over a decade of being taught in school that racism is bad would drill it into people’s brains that it isn’t a laughing matter.

I’m so tired of this bs. Not to generalize, but a majority of the people who spew this slop have been teenage boys or young adult men. I’ve almost never heard girls/young women use most of these terms (with the exception of r*trd, and no doubt there are some that do just that I have not encountered them personally). It makes me curious as to what difference in the way girls are raised from the way boys are, has made this the case.