[bherms]

I love stuff like this... I'd also like to get away from using the term "pimp" to mean to make something cooler. Pimps take advantage of and often force people into sexual slavery. Nothing about that should be glorified and turned into a colloquial term to mean something positive.

[dragonmost]

Sometime words can mean multiple things. Pimp to mean cool as been established for atleast a few decades at this point.

[blamazon]

Doesn't colloqializing it defang the term? Why should the word be gatekept within the harsh domain it came from rather than allowed to transcend alongside culture? Earnest questions, I don't think about this stuff much.

[singingfish]

I agree. I use the word “retard” (as in ‘Tony Abbott was the retard we had to have’) from time to time for similar reasons.

[bherms]

Yeah that is a good point I guess. I see this spawned a talk on the word "retarded" as well. Words probably should be allowed to grow and change over time (we see it all the time).

[Apocryphon]

It’s also quite dated slang. Pimp My Ride is decades old now.