not a metaphor for anything
not a metaphor for anything
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It’s like when I lived in Miami and everyone called me “gringo” or “flaco.” When I asked them to stop they would say it was endearing. But imagine if I called them “removed” or “fatty” what their reaction would be.
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I mean it's very common for fat men to be nicknamed "gordo" ie fatty. Of course it's ignorant but definitely not meant offensively.
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Fatty? Is that a slur for something? Or was everybody there just overweight?
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Translating is always perilous. My dad said never do it. But I wouldn't translate Gordo to fatty. It's not old slang, it's not out of date, and it's not culturally offensive. It's more like calling your son ''bread ball'' or ''Lil biscuit'' or something you'd lovingly call a chubby baby.
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Flaco means skinny
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Ohhhhhh.... That took me a second to understand.
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I assume you mean Gordo and not gringo. Gringo for anyone interested literally means Greek, and in Spanish it is slang for anyone who doesn't speak Spanish. It's really not an insult, at least in US Spanish there we offensive terms for white people, so. There's that. But I know people really freak out about ''Gordo'' and it really isn't like calling fatty, it's a lot more like calling someone Bubba. Bubba isn't a slur, it's southern slang meaning bubble, and it's for people who have roundness. They don't even have to be tubby. We called my youngest brother Gordo and Goose. Idk why Goose. But Gordo was because he was a fat baby. He's in his 30s now, tall, pretty muscular, in the military. Still call him Gordo. No one calls me flaco anymore. They don't call me Gordo either. I think I'm too fat... they call me papi, because I look a lot like my grandfather now and that's what we called him.
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Yeah this post is about you.
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