I Hate The Word "Un-Alive"

Couldn't agree more with these eloquent verses

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Very well said. I’m sadly going to parrot your last few lines but we do, we use words to paint pictures, to describe. We use evocative words to make people feel the ramifications of heinous acts. “Pew pew” violence instead of flat out murder. It doesn’t help to infantilize the reader.

I blame censorship tbh. People use the softer words so their entire post or comment doesn't get taken down.

Well said. I dislike euphemisms. George Carlin said it best about "soft language." Some people like to be coddled so much and that's the problem. Youtubers are to blame for coddling their audiences instead of them using honest language in their videos.

It didn’t start as an attempt to soften, it was a way to subvert the algorithmic censors. I don’t see it as cowardice. I see it as subversion.

I agree completely. I don't think any words should be censored. I don't think anyone should use words as hate speech, obviously. But I do think words need to be said. I was having a conversation with someone in a group of comments on a video some girl posted where she was "having a snack" and talking to her followers. She was eating an apple as her snack and talking about her day. The comments. I was blown away by people telling her she was being triggering and fat shaming everyone. They went on to say that nobody eats an apple as a snack and how disgusting she was. I was confused to say the least. I defended her. I said, "People absolutely eat apples as a snack and she literally did nothing wrong. It's ok to eat healthy items as snacks..it's ok to eat not so healthy items as a snack. Your triggers are your responsibility. Quit bullying people online." People claimed that was an attack on the body positivity community. One thing led to another and the word obese came into the conversation, as a medical term. That was the day I earned "the o word" is a slur. 🫠🫠 Still confused by that. Now, am I going to walk around calling people fat or obese as a bully? Absolutely not. I do not comment on anyone's body. But will I ignore obesity as a whole when it comes to someone's health? Absolutely not. These words shouldn't be censored. Words give accountability and taking away accountability most definitely created emotional absence. The word unalive is the stupidest thing I have ever seen and whoever thought of it should take it back. I also don't like "sexual assault" in place of rape. Say it. Congrats on top story 👏 I think it's well deserved 🎉

This is a very ignorant article.

My feelings exactly!

This was brilliant! You had so many good lines in here. Truth should hurt. Violence shouldn't be sanitized. So true. It reminds me of The Giver by Lois Lowry. Let's sanitize our speech and make things seem wonderful on the surface while atrocities are referred to as releasing others from the community until no one remembers emotion. No thank you. I prefer my world full of things that cause pain, terror, comfort, and joy. I prefer my writing to echo that messy and beautiful world as well.

Congratulations on your TS

The impact of this section is SO intense; and so real. "Use the word "Un-alive" to soften the blow. While people get used to being desensitized, Suicide. Murder. Rape. Killed." Very well done!

This is art. Art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable. It should not be soft, it should be loud and make us think. It holds commentary and power and pain inside it. Congrats on Top Story, this is very, very real!

I've never agreed so immediately and kept my agreement throughout the piece in question! Love that you used a villanelle for this; the refrain suited it perfectly. Well done on TS, Hope!

completely agree with you-like Harry Potter said-fear of speaking the name only increases fear of it

Oh. Completely wholeheartedly agree. I've always thought it was so stupid to censor those words. When they really should be said loud and clear so there is no mistake. It reminds me of how they also censor breastfeeding too. Like pics. Well done on Top Story, Hope.

I agree with you, when I first saw this word "un-alived" being circulated, and realizing that people were not using the proper words, even dead was seemingly not allowed. Cancel culture is a wild thing to me, I do not and cannot understand or support. Thank you for voicing this, it's always nice to know I'm not alone in this, freedom of speech being ripped away from us right under our noses. I even heard the word "un-alived" in a movie??? excuse me, but I agree, it's supposed to hold weight, it's supposed to hurt. Sorry, little rant. There is a song that this reminds me of, one particular line: "Wise men say that rushing is violence and so is your silence When its rooted in compliance" https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=LrrljR7HTqM

Good points, and you laid them out clearly. Compelling poem here, and I appreciate the social commentary

I agree wholeheartedly with this for all the reasons you have stated. It also disgusts me how moderation is reduced to word banning and removes any form of thinking from the equation

I've never really understood why they do that. I've seen on TikTok where they use words like unalive, grape, corn, just because they don't want their video taken down. Like I just don't get it

I'm totally on your team! I hate being told what word to use by people who think they are protecting themselves from the realities of life and death!