On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:

Unless my vision has completely eroded, I do not see the word "cunt" anywhere in that article, Ryan. Nobody on this list has ever said that calling someone a cunt is a good thing.

I was referring to the common defense of that term on English Wikipedia (which I imagine you are familiar with). It's hard to notice the outcry against Keilana's Op-ed and the acceptance of other editors' use of the C-word (sorry, Fae)[1] without feeling like there is some kind of double-standard.

What I do not understand is why anyone on this list would think that calling someone a "badass" is a good thing.

According to Wiktionary it means "Having extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable." Synonyms are listed as "cool" and "awesome".[2] It's obviously slang, but still sounds like a compliment to me.

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Communicating_on_Wikipedia_while_female
2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/badass#Adjective