I recently saw in a sub discussing and telling a reminder that g*psy is a slur. I did NOT know this ever at all in my life and now I’m aware. I felt like mentioning my issue for what to even do or what not but I saw someone get heavily down voted for mentioning it was their cousin’s name, asking what that means for her, then someone telling them it’s a deeply unfortunate name. I really don’t want that shame and bad rep.
THE BIG PROBLEM is that my dog’s name is literally Gypsy!! I got her back when I was in 1st or 2nd grade (I’m a senior now, and she’s about 12 now). Before we even went to choose a dog my parents (mainly my mom) were giving name ideas for me to choose from, and that name happened to be the ultimate decision.
Finding out after this many years that it’s a slur is killing me inside, because now I’m getting intrusive and anxious thoughts that I’m a bad person and will be still a bad person if I continued using it for her. I feel sick even thinking about saying it. I’m also scared of getting shamed and people actually trash talking my dog for her name, understandably, but..it hurts to think about that because I genuinely didn’t know any better at SIX YEARS OLD. I don’t know what to do because obviously she’s remembered this as her name for her entire life now and I doubt my parents would be open to just randomly changing her name because it’s a slur, especially my mom who doesn’t really have empathy for others.
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r/NoStupidQuestions I recently saw in a sub discussing and telling a reminder that g*psy is a slur. I did NOT know this ever at all in my life and now I’m aware. I felt like mentioning my issue for what to even do or what not but I saw someone get heavily down voted for mentioning it was their cousin’s name, asking what that means for her, then someone telling them it’s a deeply unfortunate name. I really don’t want that shame and bad rep. THE BIG PROBLEM is that my dog’s name is literally Gypsy!! I got her back when I was in 1st or 2nd grade (I’m a senior now, and she’s about 12 now). Before we even went to choose a dog my parents (mainly my mom) were giving name ideas for me to choose from, and that name happened to be the ultimate decision. Finding out after this many years that it’s a slur is killing me inside, because now I’m getting intrusive and anxious thoughts that I’m a bad person and will be still a bad person if I continued using it for her. I feel sick even thinking about saying it. I’m also scared of getting shamed and people actually trash talking my dog for her name, understandably, but..it hurts to think about that because I genuinely didn’t know any better at SIX YEARS OLD. I don’t know what to do because obviously she’s remembered this as her name for her entire life now and I doubt my parents would be open to just randomly changing her name because it’s a slur, especially my mom who doesn’t really have empathy for others. submitted by /u/fantatrees [link] [comments]
I recently saw in a sub discussing and telling a reminder that g*psy is a slur. I did NOT know this ever at all in my life and now I’m aware. I felt like mentioning my issue for what to even do or what not but I saw someone get heavily down voted for mentioning it was their cousin’s name, asking what that means for her, then someone telling them it’s a deeply unfortunate name. I really don’t want that shame and bad rep.
THE BIG PROBLEM is that my dog’s name is literally Gypsy!! I got her back when I was in 1st or 2nd grade (I’m a senior now, and she’s about 12 now). Before we even went to choose a dog my parents (mainly my mom) were giving name ideas for me to choose from, and that name happened to be the ultimate decision.
Finding out after this many years that it’s a slur is killing me inside, because now I’m getting intrusive and anxious thoughts that I’m a bad person and will be still a bad person if I continued using it for her. I feel sick even thinking about saying it. I’m also scared of getting shamed and people actually trash talking my dog for her name, understandably, but..it hurts to think about that because I genuinely didn’t know any better at SIX YEARS OLD. I don’t know what to do because obviously she’s remembered this as her name for her entire life now and I doubt my parents would be open to just randomly changing her name because it’s a slur, especially my mom who doesn’t really have empathy for others.
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