I've been seeing it in older articles for around six months.

 

Don’t do that.

It has the same connotations as “immature man baby”.

 

Kidult is a dumb word. And it's not like people haven't been collecting toys, figurines, and the like for ages.

 

I can see why people may take offense to the word "kidult."

But, at the same time, there's a portion of that group who needs to take into consideration how they feel about the term "kidult" the next time they're about to go off about the triceratops being called "Slug" now.

 

Lots of kidults around here getting rowdy about being kidults...

 

Wait...we're supposed to consider how a fictional robot dinosaur feels about being named after molten metal?

Slag may be a derogatory term for women in the UK, but I've never understood how the term would be construed as such, seeing as Slag is neither female nor a human...and literally breathes molten slag out of his mouth.

Kidult is a semi- derogatory term aimed at actual humans with the intention of using it as it sounds. Kidult doesn't mean something completely different in practical terms...like a spring mechanism in a clock for example.

This example is not on the same playing field as the other. Hasbro can call Slag whatever they want but he'll always be named after molten metal to me. Fans can call him Slug in the UK, if that's an issue to them.

EDIT: Or even better, the UK populace should probably consider removing the slang term from their lexicon rather than project the linguitic deficiency onto a toy industry. I'd ask the same of media in regards to kidult.

 

Not the connotation at all. I don't think it's negative at all.

I do think some here are projecting their own feelings about themselves onto that word.

 

Slag is one of those words can be either used in a derogatory way in such a context, or it can be used in a non-derogatory way in regards to something entirely different and unrelated.

Whereas the term for a female dog is thought of as being derogatory even when referring to an actual female dog. The derogatory definition has taken over the non-derogatory definition.

 

No you're supposed to think about how people who may be offended by the word "slag" may feel seeing it slapped on a kids toy.

Well yeah, it's easy to claim that when you're offended by one but not by another.

That is...not how words work.

Man, lotta kidults telling on themselves right now.

 

Kidults shall declare themselves as a minority group.

 

Things is ... I think Kidult pretty much starts and ends with the kids of late 70s to early 90s, which was the prime era of toys marketed to kids.

 

I have never seen a prostitute hanging out in the toy aisle. Is it different in Vegas or something?

 

It's a silly thing to get offended about and not really difficult to parse what the intent at Hasbro was.

"Hooligan" is an ethnic slur against the Irish as its original definition and yet we still have a Transformer by that name.

 

Well if that's the argument then why should anyone be offended by "kidult" unless they're a manchild?

... and if that's the argument then kidult is a silly thing to get offended about because it's clear what's meant by the term.

Yup. Buncha kidults continue telling on themselves.

 

You know, this is so ironic.


If you call some groups of people certain words they get offended by, it is considered bad, because it’s mean to call people words/labels they don’t like.


But then you also have people who think it’s okay to label/call groups of people they don’t like anything, because they personally don’t like said group, and they use their own personal bias and whatever strawman excuses as a justification for their actions despite the hipocrisy.

I don’t know, why does anybody get offended by labels that insult them? One would think you would see that, but instead of that, your just namecalling. Your saying anyone who doesn’t like or gets insulted by a demeaning term has is an immature person.


You go around telling other groups of people that they are *insert insult here* if they don’t agree with labels they find insulting or demeaning?

 

It's absolutely how words work. You stop giving them power when you start using them correctly. And in the case of Slag, there's nothing about him to imply a derogatory use of such word. The only people bringing derogatory usage are people in the UK, since they collectively decided slag should be the term for a prostitute. Thankfully, no one in the Western Hemisphere uses that word that way.

BTW, a slug is a derogatory term used for fat, lazy people across the nations who use the English language. But I don't see Hasbro bending backwards to change THAT name because it's "fat-shaming". Probably because the term is being used appropriately, as in a "slug of metal" or the unit of measurement for mass.

So, how far should a toy company go to walk on eggshells for a vocal minority versus the vocal minority accepting "that's not what you think it means" and "maybe we should look at our society before projecting our insecurities onto a toy company"?

 

God damn bunch of kidults in this dang thread. Are you seriously gonna compare the term “kidult” to actual derogatory terms? Being an adult collector is NOT some oppressed minority.

 

You are exactly right in that “kidults” is not a proper derogatory term, and you are also right that adult collectors are not an oppressed minority. But what I was reffering to in my post is namecalling and prejudice, something that is wrong no matter what how large the issue it is applied too.


If someone does not like a name/label, and you call them said label because you don’t like them, and then blame them for being upset over it, the mentality and viewpoint you are expressing is no different then the ones practiced in towards much larger social issues.


If people don’t like being called a kidult because of their interests and claim they find it offensive, and someone calls them that and then tells them there is something wrong with them if they don’t agree, they are practicing that same sort of prejudice you find everywhere else.


It’s bad, but just because it might not be on the same “level” as something else much more serious, doesn’t make it right.

 

LOL

Back when I use to tag, my moniker was KD "kidash." Now I can aptly use KD as KiDult.