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in reply to a message by Jagoda
"it’s thrown at anything that’s remotely unusual or foreign" - nah, it's thrown at anything that sounds remotely like a word with negative associations to the hearer.
Also I think the assertion that teasing and bullying are COMPLETELY different things is a little off.
Idk, I'm just thinking "out loud" here I guess. To my ears and eyes Smilla seems really close to Smelly, and, like queenv, there are few things I'd rather be called than smelly. Eek. Just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable! And the more I think about it the more I can totally see kids latching onto that and using it as a taunt. And I would probably bring that up if a friend asked me about using the name Smilla! Not to "play on their emotions" but...because they asked me for an opinion. And that is my opinion!
~Norah
Also I think the assertion that teasing and bullying are COMPLETELY different things is a little off.
Idk, I'm just thinking "out loud" here I guess. To my ears and eyes Smilla seems really close to Smelly, and, like queenv, there are few things I'd rather be called than smelly. Eek. Just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable! And the more I think about it the more I can totally see kids latching onto that and using it as a taunt. And I would probably bring that up if a friend asked me about using the name Smilla! Not to "play on their emotions" but...because they asked me for an opinion. And that is my opinion!
~Norah
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