'Oh, I don't know how to feel about that,' adds Alanah Crytzer of South Side. I don't think they should be used,' says Molly Rubenstein of Swisshelm Park. It's just too easy to be misunderstood, especially with social media. Also feeds are very public and that’s great if you wanna met or date other boys to chat or even to have sex that night. 'Let's talk about the younger generation,' says Bryan, 'and it's used in a hurtful way and that child might now have the wherewithal to be able to withstand that bullying.'īottom line for anyone using that GIF on Snapchat or Instagram, says Bryan, 'Dignity and respect are two really important words, and you don't have to agree with things, but you just need to treat people as you would like to be treated yourself.'īut social media is everywhere - and often crosses the line. US men prefers to share and trade nude on Snapchat then Facebook or Instagram because it’s easier to use and because all the cool features like stickers and filters. While these words may not be offensive to some, they can be really hurtful to others, especially to the young who use them against other adolescents to ridicule, to out, and to offend each other. (Bishakha Datta works at the intersection of gender and sexuality, runs Point of View in Mumbai, writes and films non-fiction, and is perennially interested in what's not freely expressed.'I think if a person is comfortable using that word and that's how they identify, then they should be able to use that.' But what should we call these unending attacks on words and images themselves? Paranoid? Grotesque? Dangerous? Or in the parallel universe we now inhabit, where words can be mutated and mangled to mean almost the opposite-obscene? Looks like obscenity is the new kid on the censorship block. Guess what they booked him for? Obscenity. In yet another instance of the post-real, the Mumbai cops last year booked a man who posted a photo of the Maharashtra chief minister's family relaxing on a yacht. Outercourse is intercourse, which is how 1++ billion of us have been born. Unless one lakh Indians support keeping the word. Oh, and of course, 'intercourse', which is to be removed from the film Jab Harry Met Sejal.

These fly high in the roll-call of words dubbed dangerous in the last two years.

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