Originally Posted by
surviva316
Well, "attention whore" is a pretty derogatory term. Denotation isn't everything, and not everyone can guess what your own specialized denotations are anyway for such a colloquial term.
It's like calling someone a niggerfaggot. You can't just be like, "What? They're black and they're gay. I'm not saying those are bad things. If you're saying it's bad to be a niggerfaggot, then you're the racist homophobe."
Completely different scale, obviously, but the same logic applies.