re "Bitches Who Do stitches"^
CheersMedea,
"FFS. I hate this kind of thing. It's not ironic and not reclaiming the slur.
Imagine if a group of black labourers set up a JCB business and called it N--s With Diggers. Ha ha. So fucking ironically funny. Not."
Yup. Context is all.
A lot of the self-referring N word, and self-referring well-known anti-gay terms etc. publicly used within music/ comedy etc., too, which, as somebody who's neither, makes me really uneasy, because I've way too frequently heard racist/ homophobic etc. idiots then use it to justify using those terms too.
Just my opinion, others obviously feel differently, but calling out an eejit using it as discriminatory abuse is made harder if they retort with "well, (X celebrity) always uses it in public, so it must be ok".
I have a mental health condition, am absolutely fine being occasionally (only ever affectionately) called "nutjob" or "crazywoman" by very close friends/ family.
Certainly by those suffering similar themselves.
My choice. Our right. As it is for any 'members' of a group with complicated history of prejudice.
Sure as Hell wouldn't sit right with me, though, to feel I'd made it even a tinier bit more acceptable for a twat unfamiliar with mental illness to insult someone else.
BTW, I wonder what treatment stag party lads wearing "Bastards On Tour" t-shirts would've received...