The art of the Innuendo

Innuendos are a way of life. To become a master of the innuendo is to become fluent in the language of the gods. This is a crash course on how to use innuendos, when to use them, and when not to use them.

Firstly, it is important to understand that innuendos are not always meant to be a come on. They are any allusive or indirect comment. However, the most important ones are the sexual ones. They help us to satisfy our carnal desires and to further propagate the species.

To use innuendos you must:
-Have taken Health 1, to deepen your understanding of the ins and outs of intercourse.
-Place emphasis on key words in a sentence to really get the point across.
-Realize that words are only part of the message, expression and body language also matter.

Use innuendos when:
-You're with close friends who understand your mastery of the innuendo
-You want to really weird out some normies
-The time has come for you to seal the deal with your significant other

Don't use innuendos when:
-Trying to make a good first impression. Most people don't have an appreciation for them.
-You're talking to someone stupid, as asking them to "come up for coffee" will go right over their heads.
-With the parents of your significant other. They won't appreciate it.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

Prejudice. A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

We make sense of our hectic world by quantifying and categorizing everything. This includes people. If you saw someone on the street, before you can even interact with them, you have already formed an opinion about them based on skin color, clothing, gait, and a multitude of other factors. And it's not just you who has formed an opinion, the other person has also formed an opinion of you. From that point onwards, your interactions are dictated not by individual character but by prejudice. 

How do we reduce prejudice? To figure that out, we must first examine why prejudice occurs. Take for example, the prejudice against Africa Americans today. They were horridly mistreated and oppressed in the early 1900's and that sentiment towards them carries over today into mainstream culture. As a result of the prejudice they experience and in retaliation to their oppressors, they took the n-word, which was used to verbally abuse them, and made it their own. Black people use it colloquially, however, it's considered an insult should another ethnicity use it. This isolation of the n-word makes it racially charged. If everyone was able to use it without social backlash, it wouldn't be a word that is exclusively used to insult blacks. This phenomenon of reducing tension around a word has happened throughout history. Some of the words that we think are quite innocent today would have raised some eyebrows in the past.

Take for example the word "fascinate". Today it means to draw irresistibly the attention and interest of (something), but in the past, it meant something much more promiscuous. In ancient Rome, fascinate meant to hypnotize someone with your penis magic, which is done using your big metal erect penis charm. Another great example is the word "occupy". In the 17th century, it had the same connotation as the words "penetrate" and "enter" have today.

These examples of common words used today that once had vastly more negative definitions shows how the continued use of a word alters its meaning over time. As Michiko Kakutani says, "blacks...want to use the word 'nigger' to strip the term of its racist connotations." This is how we reduce prejudice. Through the continued use of a racially charged word, we can eliminate its racist undertone and thus make a word that is used colloquially by everyone.