To me, "becky" is a term that is played out. It's derogatory for sure, but not racist at all. It's annoying as hell for the same reason if any ethnic person is called a generally used name like "abdullah," It's intended to be insulting. But as I said, seems to be old and tired. Just makes me roll my eyes any way it's used. Unimaginative and tired. I'm fully aware of where it came from, but that is really not hire it's used anymore. Just fucking old and tired. Use something new
Petty? He told her he'll punch her in the eye, he escalated the argument to a warning to her that he'll get violent if she said that. IMO she was justified.
To refer to a white female as "Becky" (or "Snow Queen") is somewhat of pejorative based purely on race! Black people know what the term refers to. Just as Tyrone or Ray Ray refers to black males and Sha Nay Nay or Shaqueta refers to a black female. But does it fall in the highly toxic Class A category of names like "spic, nigger, kike, chink, gook, mick, whop, et al"? No. I don't think so. Not in my opinion...
It's pejorative term, but I wouldn't call it racist. For something like that to be deemed as such, the word would have some history where it dehumanizes (psychologically) and being in a position where they lack any influence.
There's no h in the word wop. Wop is a derogatory term for an Italian immigrant who is in the U. S. "without papers."
I think with any word, if depends on how the receiver takes it and who the messenger is I have been called an n-word lover repeatedly by my father. For him, it is an attempt at an insult, for me it shows his insecurity about himself. But as a teacher, every year, kids whose butts I stay on to to graduate tell me that I am mean and not nice and don't love them. My reply is that if I did not care, I would send you out to the world unprepared and a detention is a small thing compared to job loss, and that teachers who are "nice" are not giving you the picture of reality. It is rewarding when they come back a couple years later with a hug and being a success in college or carrer and thank me.
Ginger does refer to redhead, but it refers to "natural," WHITE, redhead and eventhough there are blacks/other races that are redheads...that term was created for whites and applied to whites. At one time, redheads were not all that popular. Since I'm not white, but was raised in a majority white city/neighborhood/school system, I know that. They were assumed to be pale, freckled, hot tempered and a few other things. Do you remember when the kid referred to Lindsay Lohan as a "firecrotch" and Paris Hilton chuckled along? He was throwing shade at her for being a redhead. Becky did refer to a white woman. Not a mixed woman or other race woman that had straight hair. It has been twisted like the term, "DL" which meant down low or to creep around. For 2 years that term was used to refer to sneaking around with the opposite sex. It didn't have jack shit to do with homosexuality until that ding dong Oprah (and her gay buddy) got ahold of it. All of the sudden DL/down low was introduced to White America and instantly meant "A black, STRAIGHT male who was sleeping with other black GAY men and keeping it a secret." It was used to purport that black men where the reason black women had a high percentage of AIDs. I don't like Oprah. She and her show had/have a huge impact on the continued negative myths spread about black men (gay, jailed, abusers, users, uneducated, etc, etc, etc). It's easy to get a disgruntled black woman or gay black male to use her show as a platform to spread this BS to the masses. ...let me get off of my soap box (I very much dislike Oprah and Tyler Perry - sorry). Anyway, Becky was a term that referred to white women who, again, where easy to walk over, take advantage of...they like to spend money on black men, slap around and sexually exploit (give head all the time, allow cheating, etc., etc., etc.). ...Sometimes it makes me wonder where us black men get all of these dickmatizing skills? Probably the same black women who came up with the term, "Minute man?"
I know, it was a word boys in school would use when they tried to hurt my feelings though, Ive never been called becky in that way (or at all really)
From my experience ginger is only negative for men not women. Most men especially black men think red heads are smoking.
