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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I use militant in any number of settings. It's my extreme form of 'obstinate'. Militantly ignorant is probably my favorite usage of same. By all means, look it up - your desire to lug a cross on your back is not going to be a concern of mine in my word usage.
And is Peggy not uptight?
Peggy is an obstinately unhappy, restive asshole. Am I getting closer to verbiage that you find acceptable given Peggy's anatomy?
Jesus.
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Man, I can't know what your personal vocab tendencies are. There's a specific rhetorical context for the words you used concerning women. My point is simply that, to use an analog here, that those words all together paint a pretty easy-to-read picture, and that you'd be better off knowing that just in case that's not the picture you were trying to present.
Like, if someone describes a black male character as "well-spoken, agile, flying in the face of authority" then I'd raise an eyebrow at "well-spoken" but conclude that it wasn't used in the way that it has historically been used in the context of describing certain African-Americans. But if someone describes a black male character as "well-spoken, uppity, & athletic like a monkey" -- even if complimentary -- that will raise all of the red flags. There's little chance of me reading dog whistle terms like that all in a row and concluding it was coincidental.