I called somebody out on using a gendered slur recently and he paused & adjusted his speech. Sometimes it’s that easy. Now if I could just stop using my own slurs and replace them with something better. I am in search of a few good words, to replace a few slur-ry ones. I’m looking at YOU r-tarded and p-nsy, two words which shouldn’t even be coming into my mind, let alone leaving my mouth. If the action is stupid, I’ll use ‘ill-considered’, and if the person is stupid to the point of being a threat to life, limb and body politic, ‘witless’. P-nsy is more problematic. I am thinking ‘mollescent’ or ‘mollusc’ or ‘spineless’, although if I use mollusc I am afraid the Old Ones will cotch me. I’m working on replacing “Thank G-d” with “Thankfulness!” and I’m already well into replacing the exclamations “C—-t!” and “J—s!” with “Darwin’s Beard!”