Friends of Captain Awkward

@MoonChild - if you want to practice the formatting in a safe spot, that's one of the things this thread is for. (That's where I learned!)

Yay! This site is managed by the best people :)

If you're going to provide an alternate word outside the black box, why not simply replace the -ist word itself? I think site users are frustrated with this issue because we can't (or at least I can't) imagine that casually racist or sexist language would be permitted, even under a TW, so why are th...

I think context matters a lot. There have been posts that included a slur because it illustrated a point. Totally made up example: "My manipulative ex kept calling me 'crazy' and I started to believe it." Or, in a non-ableist example, "I wouldn't give the guy my number and he called me a stuck-up bi...