I think what Frankie Boyle said recently kind of sums up my ideas of free speech, censorship, and political correctness: here's the post.

"I'm actually all for political correctness. If you want to work to change the usage of a word that's discriminatory then fine, I'm behind you. But that's a conversation that needs to be had in the culture. You can't just decide that commonly used parts of a language are evil and that the people who didn't get the memo must be bad people. Awkwardly, the areas of culture which would be most useful in updating how people perceive language are the very ones that are most censored. I tried to do a routine about why I thought we should be worried about Britain's "rape culture" on Live at The Apollo recently ( and I do feel we're reaching a crisis point where some people view rape as mere bad sexual etiquette, like patting your cock dry on a tea towel or paying in loose change) only to be told that while the sentiments of the routine were acceptable I just couldn't say the word rape. If you're any kind of writer these days the culture seems to be saying "Please challenge and provoke me, redefine how I see the world, while I scream my head off every time I hear something I don't like."

Anyway. I don't like being censored from using certain language on Reddit. Some ideas can only be expressed using a certain term, and "someone" has an idea of what a "gendered slur" is, and then I can't make a point by using a trope or stereotype so everyone knows what's I'm talking about because someone might be offended. K. I do understand that a website or group has every right to implement its own rules and policies and deal with opposition accordingly. If the rules are clearly stated and I don't like them, I can go elsewhere or I should be able to ask for clarification to understand why the rule was put in place and possibly challenge the rules if they aren't doing what they're meant to do.