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Re:My Family’s Slave by pfooti on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @11:13PM (#14355348)
"Lola" was the name her owners called her. Affectionate is a complicated word here, considering that affection didn't change the fact that a woman was held in servitude to the Tizon family. The least we can do in this situation is try to stop erasing her real name.
Re:My Family’s Slave by wyclif on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @11:32PM (#14355430)
I think you're reading far too much into my comment — of course it's deeply disturbing and troubling that this woman was a slave. I was not suggesting at all that calling her "Lola" in any way mitigates the horror of that. I'm only stating that in standard usage, that is what the word means in Filipino.