Comments on: squick http://www.waywordradio.org/squick/ A lively radio program about words and language, broadcast on many NPR stations and heard by podcast around the world. It's more than grammar! Sat, 18 May 2013 23:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ribbon http://www.waywordradio.org/squick/#comment-1365 Ribbon Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:32:10 +0000 http://www.waywordradio.org/?p=6216#comment-1365 Sometimes there aren’t reasons, just personal tastes. I’m familiar with the word from fandom circles (used for a good 15 years) to describe fanfiction tastes. I fail to see how morality has anything to do with whether you prefer Spock topping Kirk or the other way around.

]]> By: StavinChain http://www.waywordradio.org/squick/#comment-1364 StavinChain Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:51:51 +0000 http://www.waywordradio.org/?p=6216#comment-1364 What squicks me is the idea that there is not a REASON for disgust.  No, it doesn’t squick me, it disgusts me.  There are right and wrong actions, and to ignore the morality or immorality (yeah, I know; many of you think it’s a dated concept) of a certain action, just because it “feels good” to the person participating in it, denies our basic humanity and reduces us to animal level.  The term “squick” is a way to attempt to get around that disgust at immorality, and it’s nothing more than a ruse.

]]> By: Oedipus McGillicuddy http://www.waywordradio.org/squick/#comment-1363 Oedipus McGillicuddy Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:12:37 +0000 http://www.waywordradio.org/?p=6216#comment-1363 Unlike some near synonyms, “squick” does not suggest that the activity in question is morally objectionable or that the disgust is universal—merely that it is decidedly not to the squicked person’s taste.

(Bad porn squicks me. Rapists disgust me.)

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