The state of Colorado is getting or trying to get rid of the term sexual offender because it's offensive. How you feel about the term sexual offender?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/11/19/sex-offender-negative-label/

Call the crime and criminals by their correct terms regardless if it's offensive.

We can and should use language and terms that's less offensive to a particular crime and criminals.

Other.

[Anonymous]

I’m not a fan and find it offensive in a different way. See, I like old school terms that really tell the ugly tale of what’s going on with a person. It offends me trying to soften language and not calling things what they really are and trying to use words that remove a sense of shame.



In place of sexual offender I prefer rapist, child molester, pedophile, or sexual predator.


I think when you soften language it seems to make ugly behavior more acceptable.


Further examples:


Unmotivated vs deadbeat
Homeless vs derelict
Promiscuity vs whoredom
Call girl vs harlot
Overweight vs fat
Overeating vs gluttony
Overindulgence vs hedonism
Immoral vs degenerate
Alcoholic vs drunkard
Undocumented worker vs illegal immigrant
Leftism vs Bolshevism
gay vs effeminate
Deviant vs profligate
Unprincipled vs reprobate
Corrupt vs wicked or evil




Let’s start calling things what they really are. When we try to remove a sense of shame or lack of duty and responsibility from language we make the condition or situation seem more tolerable.

[ObscuredBeyond]

Instead of "undocumented," as if the documents themselves were what mattered, we should just call them criminal alien invaders. Yeah, some nitwits will think that means "space invader," but society must not be patterned around pandering to the stupid.

A good point though: hardly anyone knows what "profligate" means anymore. And that's a tragedy of language in and of itself.

[Opinion Owner]

@obscured

I agree with all. We should return to the English vernacular from roughly the Victorian era until the 1920’s or so.

Many of those words had a sense of shame, a sense of failure to do one’s duty, a sense of lack of scruples and self control attached to them. Those concepts were built into the word in addition to the actual definition.

They’ve done this with other words. Shell Shock vs PTSD. Which one really spells out the nature of the condition?

This softening of language takes away from the moral responsibility associated with it. It makes it sound not quite so repugnant.

[Opinion Owner]

@obscured

I like find it a tragedy no one uses the word profligate anymore. I often find when I speak and write the need to dumb down the words as my audience will loose me in a few places.

Society has become so dumbed down it sad, despite the easiest access to information ever.

[ObscuredBeyond]

I don't mind "PTSD" being used; because trauma affects more than just victims of near-death by grenade. There really isn't a term for "witchhunt victim shock." Or in the case of women that are boob-tortured by a kidnapper, but not actually penetrated, "rape trauma" seems like an exaggeration. Language is complex. But yes, when the original term most definitely suffices, it's irresponsible to substitute it with a term that was meant for the exceptions.

[Opinion Owner]

@obscured

Yeah, I get why they changed it as trauma and it’s effects encompass more than combat. I’m just sayin.”

Boob-tortured lmao.

Boob-torture in modern language - Unauthorized Mammary Gland Maltreatment. I’m firmly against such things as I believe nips should never be pinched if it’s not relished.

[MrHopper]

Reading the article it is mostly about a long term thing, i. e some one who did it a long time ago still being referred to as one despite rehabilitating, i guess its the same with criminals, if some one commits a crime decades ago, would you still call them a criminal or a villain if they have a proven record of changing their ways.

[anylolone]

It's in the registry for a reason.

[Messianic_Monk]

I think at times the term really isn't accurate for the crime.

When we think sex offender we think child molester... serial rapist... etc. These people ARE sex offenders.

Some people have gotten on the list for a consensual relationship in high school (of which the "offender" married the person they were with)... or the guy took a leak in public and a kid walked in on him... etc.

Do you think it's fair that the latter is grouped in with the former? I don't think so. I don't think a serial rapist is the same as someone who stupidly pulled their penis out in public to take a pee.

I prefer to refer to them by their tiers. And that might not be accurate enough so I guess it depends.

[The_Maphio]

I really don't care about words. If people stopped caring so much about ways of expression and doing something about the actual problems at hand, we'd probably have less in our hands.
Alas, modern society's priorities are completely upside down.

[DCooper]

Oh it's so terrible that someone's history of abusing others would potentially have an effect on whether people want to associate with him in the future !

[t-8900]

can right and left please just stand together on this ONE ISSUE and make the rapists and pedos fear for their lives on a daily basis? Please and thank you!

[Savage_Wisdom]

If you find that being called a sex offender is offensive, then perhaps you shouldn't have done it in the first place.

[_no_one_]

I am and will always be against limiting of speach, everyone should have every right to say any word they want to. If someone finds it offensive then they just sensitive.

[exitseven]

Sex offenders should be called degenerate perverts or human scum instead.

[BillyBalls]

Well wife beating is now called domestic violence.

What should murder be called?

What should pedophiles be called? "Adults who love kids"?

[joeldalton]

You certainly don’t want to mentally scar people who like to fuck little boys in the ass. That’d be plum mean.

[BillyBalls]

I believe the proper term is "adults who love kids".

[joeldalton]

@BillyBalls Now it’s “minor attracted persons”

[Texaskid1]

What the State of Colorado is doing offends me.

I declare them to be canceled.

[DaveToo]

Do you know what's offensive? Sexual offenders. Call 'em like you see 'em.

[Anonymous]

Misleading post. They are not trying to get rid of the term.

[notwoke]

after metoo, i don't believe any woman about anything

[the_bruh]

Sounds like an offender of sexual offences.

[Razor8]

FFS.