Would you raise this issue? Unwittingly appropriating/laughing about a term for selling women

[RoderickRules]

Community event for a good cause, one of the stands is going to customise zimmer frames and is being promoted as ‘pimp my zimmer’
I have an opportunity to speak to the organiser so I could raise this and ask them to reconsider, would you?

No.

No, I wouldn't bother. Better to concentrate on more pressing issues of misogyny, rather than alienating people due to being pedantic.

Doesn't pimp also mean Bling up these days?
As in Pimp My Ride?

Hmmm, no I don't think I would. The word 'pimp' has also come to mean to customise something, usually in an OTT way, as in 'Pimp my Ride'. That is where it comes from and it is a different meaning to the prostitute pimp isn't it?

Probably not. Pick your battles!

It's a popular thing (pimp my ride, my house, etc...) so if you were going to pick on anything it would be trying too hard to be Down With The Kids

Cross Post!

Yeah, I would. I’d suggest “posh” or “glam” my zimmer or anything really but that. It’s vile.

No.

Posh my zimmer?

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@Ellenripleysalienbaby Hmmm, no I don't think I would. The word 'pimp' has also come to mean to customise something, usually in an OTT way, as in 'Pimp my Ride'. That is where it comes from and it is a different meaning to the prostitute pimp isn't it?

With nothing more than me thinking it, I assumed the pimp/OTT thing originated from movies and characters like Snoop Dog's Huggy bear in all his fur and fancy suits.

That said, I was idly wondering similarly to the OP the other day, about the use of "-porn" and "-gasm" suffixes. We happily use terms like "food porn" and "nerdgasm" despite the overtly sexual original meanings (I saw a poster on a stall which advertised "food porn" and wondered how you'd explain it to a kid).

No, I'd make like Elsa on this one

The connection with prostitution is far too close for me.

And in relation to cars isn't it used in the sense of making something broken and worthless, a crap old banger look glitzy?

It always sounds to me like an unfortunate malapropism for 'primp'.

Errol

That's interesting. I think that unconsciously, that's the association I have.

Eh? They are customising zimmer frames not prostituting the elderly.

Total non issue.

But language is important. They can use other words...I would say something.

I really do tend to think of pimping as meaning tastelessly customising (I'm in my early twenties). I had no idea about the pimping of prostitutes until my late teens (but only because I read it in a novel). I have never once heard it used in reference to prostitution. I have only ever heard it used ironically in regards to things being OTT or doing diy/having work done on something. E. G. 'Can' the come Sunday, my lawn is being pimped up. '

Lol. Pimp my zimmer.
Like pimp my ride or pimp my room it's meant to be funny. Don't say anything you'll sound nuts.

I really do tend to think of pimping as meaning tastelessly customising (I'm in my early twenties). I had no idea about the pimping of prostitutes until my late teens (but only because I read it in a novel). I have never once heard it used in reference to prostitutio

My guess is that the zimmer owners are more likely to have only heard the prostitution meaning (or at least, for it to be the primary association).

I think I'd be inclined to innocently ask the organiser if they knew they'd dropped an r from 'primp'.

Yes I would. Have challenged casual talk on the edges of prostitution at risk of being seen as a sourpuss.

Zing up my zimmer

The connection with prostitution is far too close for me.

Same for me. I think the still somewhat emerging meaning of making something more showy should be retreated from, not advanced.

Pimps exploit women. There is nothing funny or cute about the connotation.

Pimp is totally rooted in sexual exploitation and the normalisation of the sex industry.

The whole thing of 'bitches' relates to it to as in 'is she your bitch?'.

'Pimping' is about ownership and control and how in poor communities the flashiest most ostentatious men are those who have 'bitches' to finance their glamorous lifestyles and are therefore aspirational figures.

Snoop Dogg has actually been in porn and he has exploited women.

The words 'pimp' as in 'pimp my ride', 'porn' as in 'food porn', and 'bitch' to mean 'my bitches' - all relate to the period about 20 years ago when the sex industry was being mainstreamed.

Here's a nice picture of Snoop Dogg demonstrating his utmost respect for women.