By:
Liberate Zealot,
Insidious Beast,
Mirthful Misanthrope, and
Mistress Malcontent
Content Warning: Sexism and slut-shaming, Ableism, Homophobia, Religious supremacy, transphobia, racism, fat shaming, ageism, gaslighting, every type of oppressive language we could think of
So you're a progressive/feminist/queer/social justice activist and you're arguing with mean and insulting people and you want to insult them back without engaging in oppressive language.
Because being good doesn't mean you always have to be nice. Here's a post of
non-oppressive insults. But, we're doing a post on what insults are oppressive, and what type of oppression they fall under. Because, it's a sad fact that our language and culture is so Kyriarchal that many of us don't even realize the oppressive roots of the words that are in common usage.
Also some of these words have been reclaimed by the people they oppressive. Please be aware of the difference between people within an oppressed group using words that are traditionally used to oppress them and an outside group using such language. Religious supremacy is very tied to racism, just as body insults/policing and ableism are related, so those sections will be grouped together as some words fall under both both categories. I'm separating classist and racist terms, but there is also a great deal on intersection between those as well (such as ratchet and ginger). Also ageist is often linked with sexist slurs, same with sexist and classist slurs. Basically a lot of slurs are intersectional.
None of these slurs are positioned based on priority or seriousness of the slur. All words are alphabetized, with non-English words at the bottom of the list.
Naturally we're going to miss some, if you have any to include please mention them in the comments! We're trying to include ones from a variety of languages and countries, but because of our locations we're, unfortunately, English-centric.
