[unavoidable]

Brutalism actually comes from the French word for concrete, "beton brut"; not English "brutality".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brutalism

[retrac]

Unfinished concrete, specifically. I would translate "brut" as "bare" or "unrefined" here. English brutality is related to French brut, but in French it means more like crude, unrefined, raw, blunt, with no particular sense of animalistic or violent.

[bongobingo1]

Perhaps we should be right-click->view-source'ing for the true brutalist experience.

e: ah, in this very thread https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

[omneity]

Brut is raw. Brute or brutal is related to violence.

[sph]

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut