Change offensive thread title

I was one of those calling for the thread to be locked. Not sure what was passive aggressive about that but I stand by the suggestion. Editing the posts themselves seems bonkers though - it would make more sense to just delete the thread. Which I'm not suggesting. But really it should have been locked a long time ago, imho - feels very out of step with ilx's present standards and if it were a newly-created thread I doubt it'd survive three days.

there are so many threads that have gross objectifying language about women that you should also delete if you want to apply the same criteria.

you people are so lame. don't you have anything better to do than dis artists you don't like? I have been a barenakedladies fan for 10 years and they have more talent in their little finger's than any of you guys have. your just jealous that you don't know how to make good music like they do. you probably like blink 182 or green day. just go back to your mothers basement timmy because you probably live with her and listen to green day and have nothing better to do than be on the internet all day.
― bnlroxx (dave225.3), Wednesday, September 7, 2005 7:51 AM (eleven years ago)

wonder whatever happened to dave

there are so many threads that have gross objectifying language about women that you should also delete if you want to apply the same criteria.

this is otm, but I support nuking all those threads & then also the bnl one, where a whole bunch of people who I know to be nice folks get really super gross in their parsing of a word they should know better than to use, like they go extra "no no, they should be living in a group home! lol!" as if people living in group homes are great targets for ridicule and it's really pretty hateful and depressing tbh

https://38.media.tumblr.com/f9d707b3fe51873c99ec3dc33d58923b/tumblr_mod5t740ek1s5tlmxo1_400.gif

"It's been –– one week since she looked at me...."

lol @ bumping this thread but taking great pains to distance yourself from people who object to mocking disabled people

let the thread live as a reminder of our brutality

a pilgrimage place for desperate seekers of a palliative solution to the darkness within, request a thread lock, as always ignored by their unfeeling mod gods

It's probably educational for people to be able to actively revisit instances in the past when they unthinkingly used insensitive or offensive labels. God knows I'll never forget the dressing down I got when I was like eleven or twelve and my mom's best friend (who has a son my age with Down syndrome and who I pretty much grew up alongside) was visiting and I walked through the living room singing a particular cool song that I'd just discovered on a Devo compilation. Hoo boy.