Use of "offensive" language on the forum

[Shodokan]

And why do you think that female gamers remain a minority?

In the grand scheme of things a majority of the gaming subcultures where rape is used a lot (fighting games/shooting games/competitive mmos/mobas being a really large culprit... and I'm a competitive fighting game player myself) are male dominated with very very small female representation. As such communities create their own meaning for words and are not intended to offend or be taken literally... for a lack of better term it is slang.

That being said a majority of us do have the vocabulary to use other words to describe the same thing but many of us will gravitate towards using language that we find used in our daily gaming experiences. Will that offend some people? Probably... but just like the word "cunt" is severely offensive to many (women in particular) in places like Australia it is a word of endearment towards good friends (I have about 20 aussi friends who use this with me weekly). Just like Nigga/Nigger used between friends normally of african american descent (though used a lot by latin americans as well) and has been desensitized over time. (Also extremely prevalent in the communities I'm apart of outside of here)

Language is expression, if you don't like how someone expresses themselves then ignore them in my opinion.

This isn't aimed towards you or Blast3r in particular... just my point of view.