Post #2511959
2026-04-25 09:50 UTC
@larsmb@mastodon.online @Craigp@mastodon.social Yeah, here in Europe, most people don't recognize the word
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@passenger@kolektiva.social 2026-04-25 10:07
@JosJuice@mastodon.social @larsmb@mastodon.online @Craigp@mastodon.social When I was a kid, that word was an ableist slur for a person who couldn't walk unaided, and we used it as a general-purpose insult because teenage boys are awful people. I didn't know the sexual meaning until much later - specifically, until a girlfriend got me to watch Pulp Fiction with her. When the movie had the line "bring out the g*mp", I genuinely thought it was going to be a person in a wheelchair or something, and when I expressed this confusion to her she laughed more or less nonstop for weeks.