In support of daily_deviant

[pervart]

There appears to be a wank starting at daily_deviant over the use of a loaded word: MiscegenationEach month, the mods randomly pick a few words out of a sex encyclopedia to use as art/fic fest prompts. This month that included miscegenation, which offended one reader so deeply that she felt compelled to demand a prompt change (which are never granted, because

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[pennswoods]

I don't appreciate being told what I can and cannot say. EVEN IF it does offend someone to their very core. The thing about language is that no one OWNS it and that it is always changing and the same word has a multitude of connotations which reflect the many and varied world views, life experiences, moral beliefs, and historical baggage of its users. Don't impose your reality and your experiences on me and try to force me to discard my own.

And I am frankly bashing my head against the wall when I read someone drawing a false analogy between gravity and miscgenation. Gravity is not a social construct. Race, racism and all the baggage that goes with it is.

[coell]

http://jennem.livejournal.com/274578.html

[elfwreck]

I missed the first round of wank debate on this topic, and I don't watch d_d, so I'm very out of it.

That said, I think "miscegenation" in HP settings should be limited to its root meaning: mixed genus. So Snape/Firenze, or Harry/Dobby, or Hermione/Hagrid, and so on. Not Draco/Blaise or Kingsley/Remus.