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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2021 8:53:50 GMT
So many of us use creatures to show some awful traits in humans. Perhaps we should consider alternative words like those in the image below.  |
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Jan 29, 2021 13:31:51 GMT
Post by ronmiller on Jan 29, 2021 13:31:51 GMT
Weirdly enough, "sloth" works the other way around. The word came long before the animal. Sloths got their name because they seemed to be slow and lazy. Remember that "sloth" was deemed one of the deadly sins many centuries before the animal was first discovered.
So...saying that someone is "sloth-like" might be a slur on the animal, the word itself---used to mean slow, indolent and lazy---is perfectly OK.
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Jan 29, 2021 17:21:02 GMT
Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 29, 2021 17:21:02 GMT
Ah, the PETA word list kind of isn't as good as PETA would hope. The list also indicates misconceptions held by whoever wrote it.
As Ron pointed out "saying that someone is "sloth-like" might be a slur on the animal", which indeed it is. A sloth may be slow, but it's due to the animal having a fairly slow metabolism, which is even lower for the three-toed variant than the two-toed.
Having been around animals through the years it isn't much of a stretch to say the worst traits of the animal kingdom are held and practiced to excess by humans. When we're lucky the best traits hold more sway.
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