Still blows me away that *thirty years* of pushback hasn't been enough to convince the community maintaining GIMP that naming their software after a common ableist slur - for no good reason - was a bad idea that severely hampers its growth, engagement, & accessibility, not only back then, but even now & ever onward.😮💨
I hate that the discomfort of admitting they were wrong matters more than the pain their choice caus[ed/es].😞
@GoodNewsGreyShoes @dallo @Khrys
Must confess I wasn't aware of the term as an ableist slur - I thought the list compilers were just bashful about its BDSM meaning.
@only_ohm @GoodNewsGreyShoes @Khrys same here. learned something
> A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
@GoodNewsGreyShoes @Khrys @dallo
Looks like the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has that definition starting with the 8th (1990) edition, but doesn't label it as derogatory until the 10th (1999) edition. Somewhat oddly, the 7th (1982) edition has a definition of "gimp" as "courage".
(There are digitized copies of all those editions on <archive.org>.)