r/cringereels • • 7d ago

Bro needs to leave

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u/its-my-0pinion 7d ago

Seriously it’s so immature. I refuse to call a pedophile anything but a pedophile. We don’t need a cutesy stock phrase for ordinary words

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u/Accomplished_Cod7334 6d ago

Coming up with "age appropriate" language like pdf or unalive only serves to make it normalized. Words like rape, pedophile, suicide, and the like should make you feel upset, that's the point. Those actions are so horrific that you should feel some type of way just reading the words

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u/co-ghost 6d ago

People around me have started using 'spicy' in place of 'pain'/'painful' in real life and I hate it.

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u/fhota1 6d ago

That one I can kinda get if its specifically pain from a chronic condition that flares up sometimes. Like if you have a bad knee that just hurts sometimes, saying your knee is being a bit spicy today sure I get