> @GIMP it kills me to get a reply from or mention this account with the name i am not ok rn
It's hard to take someone serious when they are so scared of some particular word. This is not how a normal person acts. Outliers shouldn't have that much impact on a name that was established 30 years ago
They also mention it’s a Pulp Fiction reference, which used it in the context of bdsm, not as an abilist thing.
Lots of words are mildly offensive in at least one language.
Even if you buy that the creators didn't know it was an ugly term for disabled people (but why did they think the Gimp character was called that in Pulp Fiction?), naming your potentially mainstream software after a imprisoned, tortured, and eventually murdered sex slave maybe isn't the best idea either?
If you want your project to remain niche and repel some users, then I guess it's a fine choice, however.
Honest question: Why?
The Pulp Fiction context is a [imo, poor] defense of the name from the original team - saying that's where they picked it from, as opposed to the ableist slur. It was the mid-90s at the time, after all, and there was an Uma Thurman Pulp Fiction poster in half the dorm rooms in the damned country at the time.
So, now we're back to the comment you're responding to: even if it is genuinely just about Pulp Fiction, is that any better?
Pleading ignorance here... When I saw Pulp Fiction as a teenager, and they refer to the BDSM guy as "the gimp", I thought that's what they called that outfit. I feel like it was a not-uncommon understanding in the US (even if an erroneous one)... All my friends and I at school referred the the character Voldo from Soul Calibur as "that creepy guy in the gimp suit":
https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/ssb-tourney/images/f/fb...
We didn't mean it in the sense that he was crippled (he's actually quite agile), we meant it in the sense that he was wearing tight leather with bindings and zippers.
I am not from a region that uses the name as a slur, but even the reference to an unsavory scene in Pulp Fiction and the overall negative connotation make it awkward at best and with the fact that it is a slur I run the risk of being downright offensive for no good reason. I just recommend Krita and explain that it's not an exact photoshop place in and that there are other options out there as well.
Problem solved.
Use GNU Imp to edit sprites. Works for me.
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