Not trying to downplay this man's death or be degrading but I personally find this reference absolutely hilarious. I grew up in a household where I personally witnessed and endured domestic and sexual assault. Never once have I been triggered by the term "wifebeater". Maybe I'm just too lax in my thinking but I simply can't be bothered to stress myself out over such a dated and minuscule thing. -shrug- To be fair, I still won't care if it's changed to "tank top" instead.

I wouldn't care if the Stained Wifebeater kept its name and the Attitude Adjuster was changed back to Spousal Attitude Adjuster. I'm just complaining about the suggestion that a woman beating her husband is more offensive than a man beating his wife.

The Attitude Adjuster is still sold as a weapon in the Weapons Warehouse. A few minutes on google revealed that the use of rolling pins as weapons isn't confined to women wanting to kill their husbands.

Pete uses a skillet and some other item of cookware in the Battle Coliseum. If you defeat him five times you get the Threatening Skillet as loot. The item's description doesn't restrict this skillet's use to cooking

Google revealed some recent cases of people being killed with frying pans/skillets. One man killed an aunt, another man killed his wife and a man killed a male housemate. In October last year a woman was charged with murder for fatally beating her boyfriend with two frying pans.

Can we talk about more frying pans? How about the heavy use of frying pans to kill people in PUBG-- a mostly male playerbase. Or the wildly popular movie Tangled where Rapunzel uses a frying pan to knock out an intruder on multiple occasions?

Maybe it's time to get this topic back on topic. :)

Here is an article dated Feb 02, 2016 about the use of the word, pansy, and how it can still be hurtful to some homosexual men.

Is It Ever OK to Call Someone a ‘Pansy’?

So, I agree with the decision to change Major Drill's remarks so he no longer uses the word, pansy, even though a lot of people don't seem to associate it with being a derogatory term for a male homosexual now. My personal view is that it wasn't appropriate for a site where LGBT members are supposed to feel welcome.

Other complaints need to be looked into, of course, but how far do we take things without destroying Subeta's black sense of humour, gruesome items and dark plots etc.? For example, my pets would be very upset if their torture implement toys were changed into something else. One of them works as a Scary Assassin for Maleria and her treasure chest includes poisons.

So here's the thing about "political correctness" - it's people who have always been stepped on finally saying, "You know what? No. That's not okay to say that." No matter what the anti-PC crowd says, it's not just words. It never is. Words matter. Words are how people get dehumanized which allows even worse things to happen.

You brought up the Nazis in your reply to me as an example of extreme censorship. Yes, they had censorship. Other than criticism of the government, do you know what they censored? "Degenerate" art. While that included a LOT of things, one that would have been on that list would have been a children's book about a girl with two mothers. Heather Has Two Mommies (and I just looked this up to make sure I got my facts right) was the ninth most challenged book in the US in the 90s where people have attempted to have it banned in libraries and schools. For some reason, I rarely see freeze peach warriors get as up in arms about something like that than they do about LGBT+ people saying "Maybe we shouldn't be using 'pansy' as an insult anymore."

Something else the Nazis didn't censor was dehumanizing language. It's a lot easier to have the population accept having Jewish people rounded up and put on trains when they've been told that Jews are "vermin". Anyone complaining about "political correctness" in language really shouldn't be using Nazis as an example. Oh, and speaking of that time in history, the United States was rounding up Americans and putting them in camps. Of course those Americans being imprisoned were being called "Japs" instead of "Americans". Don't even get me started on the history of the "yellow peril."

None of this ever goes away. Look at what's happening today with the talk about "illegals" and caravans bringing disease, terrorists, and criminals.

Language matters. The words we use matter.

Let me ask you a question... Are you okay with the n-word? If so, you can skip the rest of this paragraph. If not, please read on. What about "porch monkey"? Are we approaching acceptable with "spade"? Surely "negro" is fine because that was just the word used to describe black people for ages and the United Negro College Fund still has that as their name! There is a point where most people are fine with saying certain words aren't okay to use but then it gets weird when they argue freeze peach to keep "lesser" slurs around. Where Drills was saying "pansy" he could have been using the f-slur and he would have been saying the exact same thing. People were bringing up the flower and ohmygods CONTEXT MATTERS for words with multiple meanings and British slang for cigarettes is irrelevant because Brits don't live in a cave and they know what the f-slur means on this side of the Atlantic and the only ones who are going to ask an American for a f*g are assholes looking to get a reaction (and speaking of Brits and as a woman I can also get going on the rise of the use of the c-word in North America and how Samantha Bee pissed me off when she gave people the okay to use that word). I'm digressing though and this paragraph is getting way too long, but if you're not okay with the n-word but you're fine with "spade", if you're not okay with the f-slur but "pansy" is hunky-dory, why the line? Either all speech is good or a slur is a slur.

I'm going to finish here with these points...

Sure, slurs are free speech. Do you know what else is free speech? The targets of those slurs saying "I really don't like being called that and would like you to stop."

Do you know what else is an attempt to stifle free speech? "PC", "SJW", and "perpetually offended." Those terms exist as a way to get people to shut up and take the attacks on their humanity like they did in the good old days when it was okay to call a spade a spade and nobody (who really mattered) had to feel bad about it.

Finally (and this is a general observation not directed at you or anyone in this thread, it's just something that amuses me) one of the weirdest things is how offended people who often complain about political correctness, SJWs, and the perpetually offended get when they are called racist.

Person 1: "Mexicans bring disease and crime!"

Person 2: "That's racist."

Person 1: "HOW DARE YOU!!! YOU'RE THE REAL RACIST!"

Nothing in the Threatening Skillet's name or description refers to domestic violence. Guns are more likely lead to domestic violence murder, but nobody is suggesting we remove those from the site. Now if there was an AK47-type gun with the name "Rusty School Shooter" there would have to be a talk.

Anyway, I'll just leave this here - https://www.thespec.com/news-story/7558997-homicide-now-second-leading-cause-of-death-for-pregnant-women-in-the-us/

@ Allegria

1. Only the first paragraph of my last post was directed at you. The second half was my response to people asking me to explain my stance. My apologies for not making that clearer.

2. I'm not sure of your point in bringing up that book? I've never heard of it before, but had I not been an infant in the nineties, I would have supported its right to exist as well? P.S. I'm not even the one who brought up Nazis. Someone told me if I don't believe in censorship I should go play with them, and that's just...backwards, so I wanted to address that. And while it's true they didn't censor dehumanizing language (thus my reference to their love of progaganda), they did silence those that would have defended the Jews. And therein lies my problem. Censorship can be abused by either side.

3. The N-word. Already addressed that. I don't support using it or any other slur, for any race, creed, sexual/gender identity, or ethnicity. But they need to remain in a historical context so we don't forget the awful things we've done to each other. Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

4. If you'd read my past posts, you'd see I already said I absolutely do not support the use of slurs against other people. If you are attacked, I fully support your right to defend yourself. However, there's a world of difference between "please stop using that word" and "go die in a fire" or "kys." I realize (general, not specific) you may feel like you've been held back your whole life, and it must be immensely frustrating, but telling your opposition they don't deserve to live is not the right answer. Yet it's the one we hear on a daily basis. Of course some assholes are gonna asshole and keep pushing the issue, and in that case, do what you gotta go, y'know? But it shouldn't be the default response.

so much for bowing out