Wednesday, March 2, 2016

150 Substitutions for the R-Word (for motherfucking grown-ups)

Terri Mauro[0], About.com’s Parenting Special Needs expert and author of 50 Ways To Support Your Child’s Special Education[1], recently put out a list of “225 Substitutes for the R-Word.”[3]

I think that’s fantastic! Can’t coach someone on something you haven’t taught them, right? So teach America some vocabulary and maybe – just maybe – a little open-mindedness might start to shine through the deluge of ignorance that is so proudly rampant in our culture.

Just one little problem…

Never will I ever refer to myself as a “ding-a-ling.” Nor will I call anyone else a “bubblehead.” Similarly, I shan’t be referring to any circumstantial situation as “ill-advised” (unless it is ill-advised, in which case I probably would wish to refer to it as “ill-advised,” but not as a replacement for the R-Word; but that’s not the point. Or is it…?).

If I want to insult someone or something I’m damn well going to insult the living fuck out of him/her/it (see how quickly that escalated?).

Now, don’t get me wrong, I have massive respect and admiration for Ms. Mauro and the work she put into her article (seriously – she's a stone-cold badass and it’s impressive. Go read it), but as colloquially speaking adults, we need a list to match the catharsis of the venom we spit at each other every day. Mauro’s list is great – GREAT – for kids and schools (and, in many cases, professional settings), but what about the grown-ass adults out there who are too set in their R-Word-using ways to change without having a better (or rather, shall we say, more satisfying) option? I feel they need something… bolder. So with that said [strap in for some Deadpool-inspired profanity, children]…

ANDREW JOSEPH PEREZ’S 150 MOTHERFUCKING HARDCORE SUBSTITUTES
FOR THE R-WORD

(Side Note: As compared to Ms. Maruo’s article, I am only including 150 insults or descriptors here rather than 225, and they’ll be in two sections of 75 rather than three. The reason being that I don’t believe we, as a community, need any more reinforcement that negative self-talk is acceptable. We do enough of that already. And hey, you want to go use some of these on yourself, go for it. Not my chair, not my problem.[4] But I encourage you to talk nice to yourself on a daily basis and sling these insults at your friends and colleagues in place of the R-Word. See how it goes.)

We’re gonna break this down into the two aforementioned sections. The first section will deal with pejoratives slung at individuals or groups. The second section will deal with ways to demean a situation, circumstance, or experience. Here we go!

(Sorry! Last aside, I promise. I also encourage you to read these lists aloud to yourself. It's more fun that way. Okay, now here we go!)

SECTION 1: “You are such a(n) ____________.”

Dumbass
Moron
Jackass
Damn fool
Asshole
Ass hat
Ignoramus
Idiot
Limp noodle
Jerkface
Ass jacket
Ass monkey
Wanker
Bastard
Bitch
Son of a bitch
Boob
Cankerous boil
Bilge rat
Scurvy dog
Coward
Cretin
Flip-flopper
Prick
Arrogant prick
Turd
Turd muffin
Fuck-face
Dickless sack of shit
Fuckup
Douche-lord
Cock-guzzling jackass
Justin Bieber
Numb-nuts
Hepatitis-faced bastard
Syphilitic shit head
Useless pile of horse shit
Donald Trump-supporter
Butthole
Cock-cheese
Wang
Chode
Shit stain
Shit-swizzler
Cock-gobbler
Shit-swizzling cock-gobbler
Dick cheese
Republican
Ignorant fuck
Butt plug
Dildo
Democrat
Fuckwad
Fred Durst[5]*
Commie bastard
Traitor
Pontificator
Pusillanimous tit
Bung hole
“Short-fingered vulgarian”[6]**
Harry Potter from book five
Walking Darwin Award
Vaginal wart
Motherfucker
Fuck stick
Shit for brains
Jizz rag
Swamp-ass motherfucker
Scrotum-faced son of a bitch
Dick kabob
Ten-cent hooker
Isis sympathizer
Stupid fuck
Moist, gaping pustule
Unpleasant individual to be around, generally speaking.

*I apologize if this one went too far. If anyone’s feelings were hurt unnecessarily by even the mere thought of having the name “Fred Durst” slung, like a fart, in their general direction, I sincerely apologize and wish you only happiness and rainbow unicorns.
**Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter referring to Donald Trump.


You with me so far? Good. Let’s go!

SECTION 2: “This [situation, circumstance, or activity] is ____________.”

(You ready?)

Like being fucked in the ear with a tire iron
Somewhat less than desirable
Stupid
The worst
Fucking terrible
Actively offensive to my sensibilities
Boring
Boring as hell
Boring as fuck
Shitty
Fucking shitty
What Hell feels like
Degrading
Insulting to my intelligence
Beneath me
Worthless
A waste of time
Counterproductive
Fucked
FUBAR
Pathetic
Weak
Unbearable
Deleterious
Adverse to my ability to ever get an erection again. Ever.
Sophomoric
Asinine
Canadian[7]
A veritable shit storm
Aggravating
Vexing
Perturbing
Idiotic
Moronic
The best you could come up with?
Fucking ridiculous
So awful I want to gouge my eyes out with a dead rat’s teeth
Like Apartheid*
Worse than terrorism
Making me wish I was getting an un-anesthetized root canal
Hellacious
Torturous
Like a catheter made of cactus spines
Sucky
A fuck-a-doodle-do
Fucking infuriating
A dip-shit parade
A carnival of ignorance
A cock-sucking shit time
One long, fucked up [experience]
A goddamn tragedy
A dumbass convention
Unapologetically awful
Blasphemous
Hate-worthy
Physically painful
Frustrating as fuck
Gross
Embarrassing
Tedious
A shit show
Nothing short of nauseating
Shitsville
Fuck-Me-Topia
Fuck-tastic
Cock Town
Reason to drink
Why I do heroin
How the Holocaust got started**
Why America, like Rome, will inevitably fall
Dick-slap shit-fucked
Cock-shit motherfucked
Shit-Cock McGee
Fucking fuckety shit fucked
Kinda lame

*Because Apartheid was bad.
**Because the Holocaust was also bad.


So to sum up…

With so many glorious, verbose, and exasperatingly pretentious and crass ways to degrade, demean, and destroy one another in verbal or written onslaughts… Do you really want to be the last [Bonus Round!] troglodyte holding on to an outdated slur from a bygone, ignorant era of classlessness?


Didn’t think so.

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