>> "I've never heard that word used for anything else than the software."
There are a lot of words I didn't know were common slurs, or at least inaccurate or otherwise not okay until someone told me. For example: Eskimo (colonist nonsense), Gypsy (name given to Romani people based on mistaken belief they came from Egypt), Indian (some native people use it, but not all).
There are two common ways to see gimp beyond what its defenders put forward:
1: A kink thing.
2: What the kink is based on: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gimp -> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cripple
Neither one is great for adoption.
>> "I've never heard that word used for anything else than the software."
There are a lot of words I didn't know were common slurs, or at least inaccurate or otherwise not okay until someone told me. For example: Eskimo (colonist nonsense), Gypsy (name given to Romani people based on mistaken belief they came from Egypt), Indian (some native people use it, but not all).
Learning is great.