Gendered Insult: Gender Stereotypes, Sexism, and Derogatory Language
A gendered insult attacks someone through stereotypes or judgments about gender, masculinity, femininity, gender identity, expression, sexuality, or expected social roles.
Language Reclamation: Reclaiming Stigmatized Words and Identity
Language reclamation is the process of reusing stigmatizing or derogatory words as positive, neutral, humorous, political, or identity-affirming expressions.
Sexual Neologism: New Words for Sex, Dating, and Identity
A sexual neologism is a newly created word, expression, label, or meaning used to describe sexuality, dating, attraction, gender, relationships, or sexual culture.
Pejorative Label: Negative, Derogatory, and Stigmatizing Terms
A pejorative label is a word used to describe a person, group, identity, or behavior in a negative, dismissive, insulting, or stigmatizing way.
Sexualized Insult: Sexual Shaming, Stigma, and Derogatory Language
A sexualized insult uses sexuality, sexual reputation, bodies, gender, or sexual orientation to shame, demean, ridicule, or socially devalue someone.
Reclaimed Slur: Language, Identity, Stigma, and Reappropriation
A reclaimed slur is a formerly derogatory term that some members of the targeted group reuse as a positive, neutral, humorous, political, or identity-affirming expression.
Vulgar Register: Crude, Explicit, and Socially Taboo Language
Vulgar register is a highly informal style containing crude, obscene, explicit, or socially inappropriate expressions, including many terms related to sex and bodies.
Community-Specific Language: Identity, Belonging, and Shared Vocabulary
Community-specific language is vocabulary used mainly within a particular group to describe shared identities, experiences, relationships, behaviors, or social meanings.
Stigmatizing Language: Words That Reinforce Sexual and Gender Stigma
Stigmatizing language uses words or framing that create shame, blame, prejudice, or social exclusion around sexuality, gender, health, behavior, or identity.
Coded Language: Hidden Meaning, Identity, and Sexual Communication
Coded language uses words, symbols, or expressions whose deeper meaning depends on shared knowledge, often helping people communicate identity, attraction, or sexuality indirectly.