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So far this font has failed to censor a single horrifically racist or homophobic slur that I've tried, and these words are much more universally taboo in every culture. It makes me nervous even just to type them in as an experiment and the words are so shocking to me that it's very possible I have never spoken or typed them out. But they are not censored.

It also only blocks one misogynistic slur (the slur that is in Scunthorpe, but not say the slur that looks most like 'slur') that I've tried.

That's quite a skewed definition of "bad" language.

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> this font has failed to censor a single horrifically racist or homophobic slur that I've tried, these words are much more universally taboo in every culture

How to say you’re from the US without saying you’re from the US

Really? You see a joke project made for fun and the first thing you do is try every horrifically racist and homophobic slur you can think of? Do you always look for things to be mad about?

I’ve been toying around with the idea of building self-censorship software. These comments are good for demonstrating that there’s a market of people who would eagerly engage in blinding themselves.

It would be neat if the black list was easily configurable. Just imagining the workplace arguments is fun.

I don’t think it can just be configurable, but needs to be programmable. But yes, 100% fun times ahead.

Perhaps because it’s a joke font that’s not supposed to be taken seriously?

Swear words that mean "jerk" are mostly gender-divided. That doesn't make them sexist slurs. Just because you generally wouldn't call a woman an asshole doesn't make the word asshole a misandrist slur.

You're quite right about it failing to block ethnic slurs though.

I'm interested here, because I've noticed that there's a loophole to the gendered nature of "asshole": I wouldn't call a woman that because of what she's done to me, but if she offends my wife, we might agree that she's an asshole. I'm not sure if that's a common usage or not.

There's a general process going on in Western culture where male-associated words are losing their gendered nature and are being used for everyone. For example, many of the male counterparts of the -tress words for women are now acceptable to use to describe women, like actor.

It’s a shame it blocks like this as down here the highest praise of character is to be a ‘good cunt’.

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