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I don't think you need a complete theory to recognise patterns and the effect they have on listeners. Troon works as a slur for the same reasons coon, goon and loon do, octoroon got its ending, and why the boon part of baboon is such a staple in racist terminology (the only other one that probably comes close is "chimp", with gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, gibbons and all the other well-known primates basically being unheard of), and the long tubular-mouth oo in the middle might well be a human universal gesture of mockery.
(Even the memey zoomer-coomer-doomer series of neologisms is generally at least somewhat mocking. Noob also established itself globally with that particular pronunciation, in defiance of the normal English -oo-/-yoo- distribution.)
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Personally, though, I see no real reason why tits should be considered crass, but boobs should be considered the correct casual language.
Bouba(booba?)/kiki effect. "Tits" sounds harsh and therefore rude in a way that "boobs" does not.
(Generally, euphonics seems to be one of those elements of language taboos that divide people harshly: some find it obvious that some words are intrinsically offensive due to how they sound, while some find the idea to be insane and suspect the former must be arguing in bad faith. I remember having an argument here long ago about whether "troon" should be considered a neutral term for the trans, with my interlocutor insisting that the it's only disapproved because leftists don't want to let their enemies have words for things.)
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There are plenty of works in which the male characters could not plausibly talk about taking a shit. Can you imagine LotR with an aside about the logistics of Gandalf having to go Number 2 while fighting the Balrog?
Ultimately, fiction more often than not wants to show humans as they would like to be, not as they are. If humanity could reinvent itself according to its ideals, it would probably not poop.
(It's often downright jarring when fiction that otherwise has no pretense to cynical realism does involve defecation. I remember being jarred when Soukou Akki Muramasa's protagonist made sure to take a dump before getting in his robot armour.)
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No, but (from what I saw, since I have only watched the first two) significantly less unsympathetic.
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2d ago
Funny that you go for the anime examples, because Japanese media (for what I figure are deeper cultural reasons than one might naively assume) is actually fairly liberal with flawed or outright despicable female characters. The same Evangelion (original, not rebuild!) has Asuka, who is essentially a prideful narcissist driven by unresolved mommy issues and still considered one of the protagonists. The whole point of Suzumiya Haruhi is that the titular character is a morally solipsistic obnoxious teenager with main character syndrome who by cosmic irony may actually be the main character/Dread Solipsist of the universe, and it is not suggested that she has any sort of valid excuse for this (even as her backstory of "just wanting to be different" is fleshed out to a fair degree). Girlfailure comedy like Bocchi the Rock is popular with both genders. I mentioned Girls' Last Tour just recently in the context of melancholic slice-of-life, but one of its two protagonists is also implied to be so amoral as to be the human equivalent of a cat that would eat its owner's corpse if he/she died first.
(To the point of "deeper cultural reasons", it's actually quite jarring to the Western eye how often in serious Japanese literature, the female characters are morally deficient and the male characters are openly misogynistic. At times it very nearly feels like the familiar women-are-wonderful moral compass is upside down.)
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3d ago
To hit the Republicans where it hurts, it should probably either be pamphlets about the joy of toiling and dying for Israel, or something about tax breaks for the rich. The problem is that both would be wide open to comebacks about the underlying policies also having nontrivial support among Democrats.
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5d ago
My sense (from the small sample of people I know and the slightly larger sample of people I consider to be tempted by it) is that for both sides, it's the greater relative heaviness of gender-related expectations against a background where all other expectations of young people have been systematically dismantled, coupled with systemic misinformation about the ease and social boons of transitioning and general anomie/lack of avenues for self-actualisation.
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5d ago
That design looks fine to me. There a certain look to the Twitter-friendly woke reboot female protagonist, and it's not present here; I figure the chud half of the outrage machine has just gone through its own purity spiral, and arrived at a consensus that everything short of the cookie-cutter babyfaced vaguely Asian kitten with giant tits and random holes in the outfit must be part of the media conspiracy to keep them down.
Castlevania had a borderline trademark on the Japanese fake-aristocratic-Western androgynous bishie look with its male characters for the longest time. Going for something that fits with the "prince-like" Takarazuka female CEO dressed like a British bellboy aesthetic is a perfectly reasonable mirror image of it.
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6d ago
In Germany Pelicot seemed to stay first-page news for months. Also, the ethnic extraction of the perpetrators was never mentioned, and if it was just 24% this seems like child's play for the media to sweep under the table.
To begin with, a lot of the diversity stuff works psychologically by exploiting some nonmathematical sense that equality means equal numbers for every class. So if anything, "24% Arabs" naturally spins into "majority native", and comparing to baseline population figures can be framed as "racist weirdo math, just trying to follow along with the reasoning will morally taint you" or "are you trying to exploit the injustice that Arabs have less than 50% in some other aspect to also slander them".
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6d ago
It's adjacent, but much more of it is essentially Le Petit Prince: main character encounters a sequence of individuals or societies who are a caricature of some idea taken to an extreme, and the reader gets a Teachable Moment (mediated through the eyes of the protagonist, who by way of detachment or naivety presents themselves as a neutral observer). Pure travelogue-styled slice of life, including Frieren, is less transparently preachy, as conveying the author's expansive opinions on society is not the intent.
Isn't cunt Latinate too? I think it's really more about the the sound itself; out of my quick-and-dirty list of similar slurs, few are actually Germanic (what words with that pattern even are, apart from moon?).
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