On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 04:31:38PM -0700, Brett Cornwall wrote: > On July 12, 2020 12:51:26 PM PDT, toki <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2020/07/10 12:59, Kev M wrote:
>> I might be hypersensative right now, due to the riots in the United >> States, but I suspect every HR department seeking to reduce >> "hostile work environment" lawsuits would flat out bar the use of >> any product that contained the word "vanilla" in it, due to both >> its racial, and its sexual connotations. > As a U.S. citizen I find this puzzling... I've never heard the term > vanilla to ever be remotely controversial. "Vanilla" is a term most > often used to describe something as "boring", which may provoke > sexual connotations as much as the word "fun" or "weird" does. 1) What is being sold as "vanilla ice cream" is white / cream / pale yellow. That association is strong in people's mind, so much that I've seen several people, on several occasions, in Europe, call plain, unflavoured, ice cream "vanilla ice cream". If "white hat" or "whitelist" can be controversial, I wouldn't be surprised that "white ice cream" (which "vanilla ice cream" is equivalent to, in people's minds), would be, too. 2) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_sex; it does not quite mean "boring" in that context, but, well, it is a well established expression. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
