#g slur

[fernthewhimsical]

Yeah, you know what, let's do this. Welcome to witchblr! Here is a list of terms we want you to look into, which will help the witchblr experience for everyone. Some are appropriative, some have roots in racism and/or antisemitism, some are straight up slurs. In no particular order:

Magick (with a k) and therefore Aleister Crowley

Smudging

Kaballah/qaballah

Lilith

Starseeds/Indigo children/crystal children

G*psy

Folkish/Volkish

Odinism

Shaman/Shamanism

Chakras

Voodoo

W*ndig*

I'm sure I'm missing lot, so feel free to add. And I am white so if I overstepped or spoke out of turn, please let me know

#witchcraft #witch #pagan #paganism #witchblr #culture appropriation #cultural appropriation #racism #antisemitism #dog whistle #g slur

[wolvierinez]

i kind of feel like dick grayson is in a very weird place rn just from what ive seen when ive dared venture outside of my circles

like.

hes sexualised a lot, something i can trace back to devins run on him that sexualised him and his romani identity (which she introduced and then stopped wanting to research after a few issues) and how it's still prevalent in fandom spaces for people to characterise dick as some kind of hot blooded "gypsy" to objectify. and sometimes people are obvious about what stereotypes about us they're reducing us down to but sometimes its a lot more covert until it hits you in the face and you realise this person is racist and doesn't view your people as anything other than something "exotic" to fantasise about while ignoring us and our struggles irl.

but in those same spaces there are people saying he's white/gadjo/not romani at all, Actually, and his sexualisation Totally isn't linked to ideas introduced by a very racist writer. that No One is sexualising him because of his heritage and its purely because of his ass or something, or because he's good looking and implying that some of it just might be linked to racism is wrong and bad. that he's "bad romani rep" because writers refuse to give us anything Substantial about his heritage or DC doesnt hire romani editors or writers or sensitivity readers to make sure they're doing things okay. i dont even necessarily think he's bad rep like ive seen some people say i just think he needs an actual arc or a substory addressing how hes disconnected from his heritage but is working to find out more or something.

but it's just kind of. frustrating to exist in this fandom as a romani nightwing fan because there are some people who think he's also good rep! great rep that you aren't allowed allowed criticise At All when we're literally getting crumbs. "beautiful romani smile" .

i just think dc should do more in a respectful manner and fans should stop stereotyping him as some kind of seducer because its weird and as someone who's read comics the only place i can tell where you could possibly get that from is devins run or fanfics written by people who don't read comics and reduce the characters down into famously incorrect tropes.

CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THIS BUT I DONT WANT PROSHIPPERS INTERACTING WITH THIS POST.

#g slur #dick grayson #dc comics #nightwing #idk how well this is worded but im sick i napped i woke up mad at the world. #and most of these opinions i mentioned are from people who. arent romani! is anyone surprised.

[kaijuposting]

Since the page I linked in my original post about Lady Danger's original name containing a slur is gone, I'm gonna post this:

Again, it's true that neither Beacham nor del Toro were being intentionally malicious here. But a slur is a slur, and the fandom has a perfectly good replacement for it.

#pacific rim #lady danger #jaeger #jaegers #g slur

[ghostlypawn]

POLLY AND MICHAEL GRAY PEAKY BLINDERS (2013-2022)

#peaky blinders #peakyblindersedit #perioddramaedit #tvedit #dailytvfilmgifs #dailycolorfulgifs #usergif #polly shelby #helen mccrory #michael gray #finn cole #thomas shelby #pollyshelbyedit #michaelgrayedit #long post #s6 spoilers #g slur #they just drive me insane ok #i am a mg apologist

[horsefigureoftheday]

Apparently there's a Struts knock-off! It's sold as "G*psy Queen Adventures in Unicorn Land," though, to avoid using a literal racial slur, I'll refer to it as Gigi Queen if I ever talk about it again, since the logo appeared with that name on this plushie:

They were discovered by Fakie Spaceman :)

#g slur #struts #not horse of the day

[mage-ical-character-person]

I’m so Mad right now why do they treat him like that

“Ah, my friends I would like to sing you a haunting folk song from my native country :) Transylwania :)”

and then everybody just goes: songs from your native country suck and are boring and sad.

This is Sesame Street! You can’t say these things! That’s a slur Luis.

there is a lot to unpack here but I don’t feel qualified to unpack any of it.

This is episode 0921 the first scene is everybody blaming the Count for a normal thunderstorm. And then this happens. Why are they doing this.

#Like I did not think I would see Count Von Count canonically hears someone say a slur to his face today #Like I’m not an expert but I’m like 90% sure this is really. That is not good at all. Oh my God #Sesame Street #count von count #g slur #ask to tag #Tw gypsy

[boimgfrog]

I don't know guys should I get it...

#jay says a thing #g slur

[professorllayton]

insane scene. insane show 

#literally....................... #videos #blabs #crashing #also. #g slur

[djuvlipen]

the thing with the word "gypsy" is that I didn't really used to care either; I'm not from an english-speaking country so "gypsy" had no connotation to me and I used to think "better to leave this to the Roma living in English-speaking countries, they know better." But you can't really be left alone on the internet and sooner or later you WILL interact with non-Roma who speak English and in these interacts whenever I was called "gypsy" they always meant it in a pejorative way. Once on here I was told "Roma are hard-working and can be good, yes, they want to work, I like them. They are different from Gypsies. Gypsies are thieves and will steal anything." Like, the distinction being made here is quite clear. Once I was at the club and I made the mistake of telling this white Canadian guy I was half Romani, he then proceded to make degrading comments at me, telling me "dance for me like a Gypsy", other stuff I won't go into details with, but you can see the sexual connotation that "dance for me like a Romni" doesn't carry.

People get the impression that Gypsy is called a slur because (1) it's an inacurrate term, it comes from "Egyptian" and Roma aren't Egyptians, (2) it's sometimes used in a negative way, but it can also be used in a neutral. A lot of people therefore think that it's really far-fetched to say Gypsy is a slur, and that it's just political correctness gone too far. And sure, I'd agree if "Gypsy" was indeed just a neutral-to-pejorative misnomer, but it's not just that. The "gypsy is a slur" line originates from the American Romani community; the vast majority of American Roma came to the USA after the abolition of slavery in Romania. And as they very rightfully point out, "Gypsy" in English is a rough translation of the word "Cigan", "Tsigan", etc. As scholar Ian Hancock pointed out in his book on Romani slavery in Romania, The Pariah Syndrom, "Cigan" wasn't just the name given to Roma in Eastern Europe, it was a legal term used in judicial texts. "Cigan" meant "Slave". "Cigan" was "slave". In the eyes of the law and for 500 centuries, the definition of "Cigan" was "slave". And those slaves were Roma. In Eastern Europe, Roma were called Cigan so that being Romani meant being born a slave, living as a slave, and dying as a slave.

Another word "Gypsy" roughly translates is "Zigeuner". "Zigeuner" is the German translation of "Cigan". Even though it wasn't associated with chattel slavery, it was still a legal term used in judicial texts. "Zigeuner" was a notion used by Nazis to refer to Romani people and people of Romani descent; being a Zigeuner meant being an "asocial" which meant being a criminal corrupting the German blood.

And when Eastern Europeans or Germans use "Gypsy" when speaking English, it's "Cigan"/"Zigeuner" they are translating, not "Roma", because if they meant to say "Roma" (a word that exists in Slavic languages and in German), they would say "Roma", not "Gypsy".

Some people will point out to some Romani communities or individuals who use "Gypsy" to refer to themselves and will use these people as an argument to say that "Gypsy" is not a slur and that saying otherwise is political correctness gone too far, but that's beyond the point, the thing is that a good chunk of the Romani diaspora is rightfully uncomfortable with the word and that pointing at a few Roma who call themselves Gypsy doesn't erase the fact that "Gypsy" carries a pejorative connotation reminiscing of genocide and slavery and is especially degrading when talking about Romani women. I do agree that focusing on "is Gypsy a slur or not?" is very annoying and kind of useless because there are so many other things we could talk about but at this point, the question is, "why do Gadje keep coming back to this particular discourse when they could just move on, accept that Gypsy is pejorative, and then try and do more meaningful things?"

#roma #way too long sorry #g slur #original post

[black-is-beautiful18]

Elizabeth Olsen playing a Romani character and yet saying the g slur to describe her as well as listening to an antisemitic podcast is exactly why she should’ve never been cast as Wanda. She and Marvel are both at fault cuz Wanda’s heritage is very clear in the comics. Even if marvel wanted to go a different direction and use a different universe, there is no universe where Wanda would be white. They messed up in AOU, knew it, and decided to keep going. Elizabeth is probably apart of the “I should be able to play a tree” brigade. Also, Wanda’s supposed to be a teenager in AOU. Did Marvel really think we were gonna buy that Elizabeth was a teenager???

#elizabeth olsen #wanda maximoff #g slur #antisemetism mention #marvel #wanda is romani #what were they thinking #unique writes

[kaijuposting]

Friendly reminder that the reason we call her Lady Danger is because the g-word is a slur.

Yes, Lady Danger was originally named after an engine, nobody was being deliberately malicious toward the Romani people, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a slur.

#pacific rim #jaeger #jaegers #lady danger #g slur

[magnetothemagnificent]

what's the g slur?

It's an anti-Romani slur. You're probably aware of it but might not know it's a slur: G*psy. Don't say it. It's a slur.

#antiziganism #anti romani racism #g slur

[joy-haver]

Question for any Romani people who may be interested in answering;

How should I refer to someone who’s name is the G slur?

On the one hand I don’t want to assume it’s not reclamation, and interrogate someone in their background. On the other, I don’t want to normalize the use of the word to mean “free spirit” or whatever.

What would be some good ways to bring it up and to try to address it if they are appropriating?

#g slur #text post #not gonna tag this with Romani tags because I don’t want to take up space

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

(tw for the g slur)

speaking of the hunchback of notre dame

i get the feeling people are reluctant to talk about this scene bc of the use of the g slur (which is unfortunately what the og movie used)

but its legitimately one of the funniest moments in kh to me, and one of my favorite riku scenes. 

cuz he just goes ‘no problem, i dont know what a romani person is :)’ like asdfjkdhgjf riku pls

#kingdom hearts #ddd #the hunchback of notre dame #g slur #g slur tw #video #ddd in general has a lot of funny one-off lines

[thedevilsrain]

get fucked french child

#g slur #i think thats the way to say it? ask 2 tag either way #i hsve no idea how old that kid is meant to be shes gotta be like. 12 #gio reads cool comics

[fyeahfantasticfour]

Marvel Comics Super Special #1 (1977) - Biography of Doctor Doom

Transcripted under cut

A brief biography of DR. DOOM. Based upon "The Fantastic Origin of Dr. Doom" by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

He is a master of robotics, of physics and chemistry, of aerodynamics and micro-miniature electronics. Yet he dwells within the ancient stone castle walls of a Central European castle. He is absolute monach of the tiny Balkan kingdom Latveria. Yet he shuns the self-indulgent pomp and pageanty of royalty, disdains the ritualised adoration of his subjects, preferring instead their unmitigated obedience, and an almost reclusive existence. He is a man of many passions--all concealed. He is one of the wealthiest men in the world, and yet he permits himself no luxary, no comfort, except his solitude. he is the living paradox named Victor Von Doom.

(break)

Sometime in the early 1920's, in the storybook kingdom of Latveria, a son was born to the Rromani family Von Doom. The father was a healder, a physician, inheritor of his own father's knowledge of herbs, barks, berries, roots, and the curative potions obtainable through their combination. The mother was notable primarily for the circumstances of her death; in a pit, with stones raining down on her head. Certain persons thought her to be a witch.

It was a difficult time to be a Rrom. Caught between two eras, they were hated and feared by the slowly fading adherents to the agrarian past, hated and scoffed at by the proponents of the industrial future, hated and persecuted--but respected--by the powers-that-were, that relucant regard for Rromani prowess in certain areas, among them medicine, was the elder Von Doom's undoing.

One day, when Victor was barely 10 summers old, his father was summoned to the royal palace and ordered to save the life of the ailing queen. "I shall try my utmost, of course, sire," protested Von Doom, "but I can offer no guarantee of success. Your own physicians have admitted their inability to effect a cure."

"Then let me inform you, Von Doom," replied the king, "that should you faill, I can offer no guarantee that you shall leave this palace with your head."

The queen died.

Von Doom fled for his life, eluding the royal guardsmen just long enough to make a quick stop at the Rromani encampment to pick up young Victor, reasoning soundly that the boy would surely be the king's target if Von Doom made good his escape alone.

For months, through the passing of fall and on into a bitter winter, Von Doom and son roamed the forests, always a step ahead of their persuers. The elements, however, proved impossible to avoid, and one day the Rromani wagons found VonDoom and his son huddled together in a blanket, covered with snow, at the side of a road. The father was moribund.

Within hours, despite the ministrations of the Rromani, Von Doom was dead. His last words, voiced to Boris, an old friend and member of the tribe. "My son... protect...!"

"No one need protect me, father!" Victor wailed. "I shall be strong! I shall make them pay for what they did to you and to mother!"

But Boris knew the real meaning of Von Doom's impassioned plea. Victor would need no protection, it was true. However, the world must somehow be safeguarded against the lifelong rage that would burn in the child's soul.

When Von doom had been buried, Boris presented young Victor with the few possessions his father had left behind. Among these was a curiously decorated trunk, marked with arcane astrological symbols, which Victor had never seen nefore. Inside it he found a strange collection of cards, charms, fetishes, talismans--all the implements of sorcery. And when he realised with grim satisfaction that the accusations made of his mother were joyfully, wondrously true. He was the son of a physician and a witch.

(break)

Victor Von Doom threw all his energies into the study of both his parents' crafts. By the end of his eighteenth summer, the boy had established a reputation as an inventor, a magician, a philosopher, and a rogue. For all his devices were created to victimise the wealthy and the powerful--like the salve that cured headaches, but induced baldness, like the "magic" violin which made any man a virtuoso until Victor, safely out of reach, fliced a switch and shut off it's power source.

Indeed, words of Victor's accomplishments spread so rapidly and so far that he was offered an opportunity to study at a major university in the United States. Anxious for the access this would provide to far more advanced laboratory fascilities, Victor accepted.

But tragedy lay at the end of the journey. During an unauthorised experiment on univeristy premises, Victor's elaborate device for communication with the spirit world exploded, permanently disfiguring his face. He was summarily expelled.

By this time, World War 2 had erupted in Europe, so rather than returning to his homeland, Victor set out for the Himalayas, determined to learn the mystical secrets of the Tibetan lamas. He did. Indeed, by the time he was ready to depart, his teachers were calling him "master."

It was in Tibet that Doom's strange costume was forged, the cold grey armour, the emotionless iron mask which would forever hide his ravaged countenance from view.

And it was there he swore a vow that one day, all the world would acknowledge him as it's sovereign. He has not abandoned that vow. Power remains his obsession to this day.

The world may not yet bow to his every command, but the very mention of his name sends shudders up the spines of men and of nations.

And hey--that's a start. End transcription.

#doctor doom #victor von doom #g slur #fantastic four #comics #mod: brieuc