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senux
1899 days ago
I honestly need help understanding why you'd like to rename GIMP.
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gryn
1899 days ago
gimp: cripple / derogatory term for disabled person.
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titanomachy
1899 days ago
Exactly, and I'd put "gimp" even further up the offensiveness scale than "cripple".
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superdisk
1899 days ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondage_suit
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Ancapistani
1899 days ago
I don’t the the BDSM connotation is the main issue. It’s a slur for “disabled person”.
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anthk
1899 days ago
Literally the 90% of the world is not aware of that context and if they are tech savy they'll know Gimp as the graphics editor and nothing more.
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Ancapistani
1899 days ago
I don’t think either of us have solid evidence of how widespread the term is, but intuitively I would expect it to be much more than 10% of native English-speakers.
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