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StillNoLeftLeft
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I will admit that I did not know all this about the history of the word gossip.
But while I respect the goal of reclaiming terms in general, as a woman I really dislike the name nonetheless. It might be my own internalized stuff, but having spent a lifetime listening to gossiping being ridiculed and having had to actively distance mysels from it to be taken seriously, I feel like if this reclaiming was to be done, it should be done by women only first.
Also gossiping and the dunk tank just vibe very differently for me. Gossiping isn't nearly always an act of condemnation, it is often just social knowledge transfer and socializing. The tank was crearly something very different. If gossip is most often understood as an activity that women do then making a place like the tank be gossip makes gossip look bad, I hope this makes sense.
This was immediately reported on by our state media with the angle that reports about this were supressed in social media and reporting it in the media there took until the next day.
I only saw this because I saw a comrade post about it elsewhere critizicing our state media on their angle (as filming the sites of accidents is illegal in many places in the west as well).