Post #1981348

In climbing, we use carabiners. It used to be common to say ‘biner or ‘biners for short. But my community stopped saying it that way because we were told that it sounded to close to a derogatory term (beaners) that I had never even heard of before. So to try to be more inclusive, we trained ourselves to not say something that sounded offensive, even though none of us meant it that way. It really isn’t that much to ask IMO to use neutral terms when so many exist.