@nautilee really? I've seen plenty of people using it in what doesn't seem to be a slur sort of way...

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@nautilee including at least one person I normally trust to be pretty knowledgeable about that kind of thing

@Felthry

...well, everywhere I've seen it used and in common parlance, it's a slur. and it originally started as shorthand for a slur phrase.

@nautilee ...I remember hearing that it was a reference to the egyptian god thoth

@Felthry

...what @queerzel said is right from everything I've ever seen, I just didn't wanna use that phrase. Basically it's shorthand for that phrase and other similar synomic slurs.

@nautilee @queerzel@snouts.online I've seen people use it in ways that make it seem like it just means "horny"

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