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@smolchlo Some people just don’t know the value of what they have. You’d do better being auctioned on eBabe.

Trying to keep and modify “giant” seems futile. In English the suffix “-ess” is how a generic noun is “marked” as female. It’s a deliberately sexist construction, assuming the default person is male.

I think we’d be better off using another synonym altogether or even inventing entirely new words.

@smolchlo Firebugs get stamped out.

@DFP said:

I’d toss in my opinion that ANY sexual fantasy, sizey or otherwise involving a real person that you don’t know is inherently fictional because you don’t know them. I used to think I had a crush on Gillian Anderson because I’ve always been attracted to both redheads and very intelligent women. Years into the X-Files I saw her interviewed on a late-night talk show and was crushed because it turns out that she’s not very bright in person and I realized my crush was actually on the fictional Dana Scully. Fantasizing about a public figure who makes their living BEING a public figure isn’t just harmless, it’s the cost of doing business.

This seems correct to me.

@GiantOmar said:

Thats why i think men are the pervy and creepy gender women are more pure and innocent

ROTFLMAO

@smolchlo Sigh. [grabs fire-extinguisher] 🧯

@Giganto82 They’re afraid of catching Teh Gay.

@mrgoblinging7 [Jabba-the-Hutt chortling]

I think there’s room for people just ever so slightly unnaturally large. 7-footers are rare but they’re not unheard of. What most people expect to see when they look at a 7-footer is someone who is seven feet long. That’s markedly different than, say, a 5’9" dude proportionally enlarged to 7’0" in height. That person is going to get double-takes from everyone, but no one will be able to confidently say “that’s unnatural.”

Bigger than that and you have a guy who will have real difficulty navigating the built environment and will provoke people to call the authorities.

@bigcuddlygiant OMG I’d suckle those thighs for dessert!

I was expecting her to be hiding under his toque, directing him by yanking his hair.

@i-am-insane This is what I think of when I hear She-Hulk being called “the Jade Giantess.” Weird how no one calls The Hulk “a giant,” huh?

@phoenix09 Perhaps she’s just playing her part.

German, another language with gendered nouns, has Riese and Riesin for male and female giants, respectively. Oddly, German uses the same word, Zwerg, to refer both to IRL people with dwarfism and to imaginary people who are Tom Thumb-sized. And yes, a female “dwarf” is a Zwergin.

(Tom Thumb is Daumling (Thumbling) in the original German Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm)

@size_master Just what I want on my plate.

Provocatively, when Rebecca Sugar wrote her Sizey song for Steven Universe, she didn’t write “All I wanna do is see you turn into a giantess.” I don’t think we need to limit ourselves to a single-word term for “male giant” or “giant man.”

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