For me it’s saying, “we can’t joke about anything anymore”. Sirens go off immediately 🚨
Anyone who uses the word “elevate” seriously in a conversation not about elevators or construction.
I hear it more from people I’d consider pretentious, usually involving food or decorating.
I feel elevated by your comment.
But I like Rush’s “Vital Signs”.
“Everybody got to elevate from the norm.”
I have seen the word chud used but the context never made it clear what it means.
It literally stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller but is used colloquially for any people considered sub-human or monstrous because of their negative/predatory attitudes toward other people.
I mean I know the name from the movied it was more its modern usage. Honestly your def difers enough from another persons that now im less sure.
I’d like a definition too, I’m an old dude and don’t get the new fancy words.
Calling them fancy is a stretch.
Get out of my lawn!!
How old? Because C.H.U.D. came out forty years ago.
A chud is a vicious sub-human monster.
well I mean some you can sus out from context and I sorta used that word intentionally because from context I used it like I did above to figure something out but I also have seen it used to mean something is suspect. chud though I have generally just seen it thrown out as some degrogatory noun which is really hard to figure out in context .
I view it as the right wing equivalent of a soyjak. A derogatory name (and drawing) for someone who’s terminally online and politically obsessed.
I read that as politically obese, and I think it still fits.
Now see I did not know it was right wing and now I apparently know what a soyjak is even though its the first time I have seen this. Kinda funny that anyone moving in social media circles has a name for folks who are online all the time and politically obsessed and are not themselves. Its feels like one of those things in a cartoon where the clearly nerdy character is yelling nerd at a nerdier character.
“Freedom of speech”
Especially when they’re using it as a defense to use racial slurs in a Wal-Mart on a Saturday afternoon.
The first and easiest is always the pho-militaristic active wear. Its like adidas trainers on a guy squatting. When you know you know. If its an aiport, their bag has just an abusurd number of places to velcro things and a place to put a fake unit patch. Also, chuds mostly travel in packs, so the probability of them actually being a chud increases at a rate of 1- e1/N chuds per unit area.
See also lifted yota’s tacomas with a bunch tac gear, and a big-ol’ floor jack the think they need to carry around., none of which has ever been used, see also the F-350, and of course, the all-to-obvious “one dude in a cyber truck”.
I saw a guy with a military style duffle bag the other day, but it had the words “emotional baggage” on the side of it, and honestly, that passes the vibe check.
i actually saw a guy with someone else in their cybertruck the other day, first time for everything i guess
Maybe they were being trafficked. Did you call it in?
I take it pho-militaristic is Vietnam-era stuff.
pho-militaristic
Yeah, the tactical soup culture is really out of hand these days.
(…it’s “faux,” by the way.)
fixed but i’d rather pho
Hey! I’ve been wearing camo and pseudo-tactical shit on the daily since long before it became fashionable. It used to be back in the good old days that military surplus gear was the cheap way for broke motherfuckers to get vaguely performant and moreover highly durable outdoor wear, plus it’s always full of pockets. Bonus points if you were also some kind of airsoft/paintball nerd.
There’s an excellent podcast about fashion history and design called Articles of Interest by Avery Trufelman, and she did a season about the deep connections between outdoor wear and military clothing, with a lot of talk about surplus. I recommend it highly!
That was indeed fascinating. Thanks for sharing it!
You remember when the US switched to digital camouflage in the 2000s, then realized it was a terrible idea and switched back?
Any idea why you didn’t see cheap digital camouflage jackets around? Did they just nit make to milsurp stores?
In no particular order:
- ACU/UCP is pretty irredeemably ugly for casual wear. Maybe it will find a niche following among cyberpunks in 20 years or something, who knows.
- It may still have a connotation to official US Army uniforms that people looking for casual wear don’t want to make. The classic “woodland” camo is far enough removed from this.
It is in basically every surplus store, and it is cheap…because hardly anyone wants it.
Any idea why you didn’t see cheap digital camouflage jackets around?
It’s working
They were suplussed very cheaply. They’re just ugly as sin.
I have three sets of digital camo BDUs. Two sets of MARPAT, and one of some generic grey “urban” coloration. I didn’t find them difficult to source at all. Insulated jackets, though, I don’t know about.
Insulated jackets, though, I don’t know about
Yeah, that’s the one I’d expect to see around, since you know, cheap jackets that go to -40F. I saw quite a few of them in cold parts of China and even Kazakhstan and it made me curious why I didn’t remember any in America.
Do many pockets.
I miss my combat pants. They were comfy by the time I had to give them back, and they had so many pockets.
pho-militaristic
You want the French faux, not Vietnamese soup.
“Female” instead of woman or girl.
it helps if you read females like tamales.
Where’d you get that bag?
Oh, it’s a shemale
Hey, I always do that when it’s used as a noun!
Oh man, that’s gonna stick in my brain. Great, thanks.
I’m forced to read “spectacles” like a Greek because of a post like this.
Oooh, my testicles sound so much fancier now!
And how did they get dusted with glitter?!
Although with the distinction between gender and sex continually becoming more prevalent in the zeitgeist, I find myself using the terms “male” and “female” more often than I used to.
I found myself using female and male a lot after visiting a certain e621
spe’fy what show (in Dm if you prefer)
I might specify more often to clarify, like “All the female medalists/athletes,” but that’s quite different from when you hear someone say “Oh, you know how females can be.” It’s like their vocalization process includes a filter that converts “bitches” to “female” at some point between the first thought and actual speech, because they finally got the memo that not everyone is a misogynist like they are. You can hear the disdain in their voices when they say the word female.
This one has bitten me in the ass. Male and female are incredibly common terms in the medical community, but I try to limit my use of female to work only, if at all. On the plus side, I’ve learned I rarely need to use it at work. It literally only matters if we’re doing a deep dive into what’s potentially going on and need to branch out to figure it out
So the authors of these books?
- The female
- Females
- Single Black female
- Females and Harry Potter
- Fierce females on television: a cultural history
- Warriors, witches, women: mythology’s fiercest females
- How Can They Tell If I Am Male Or Female? Gender Stereotypes in Disney Movies
- Mistress, mother, muse: an exploration of the female in modern and contemporary Mediterranean literature
- Gender and identity in Franz Grillparzer’s classical dramas: figuring the female
- Livy’s women: crisis, resolution, and the female in Rome’s foundation history
- A heritage of her own?: Allusion and tradition in female-authored poetry of the Hellenistic age
- African American females: addressing challenges and nurturing the future
- Gender, supernatural beings, and the liminality of death: monstrous males/fatal females
- Women who fly: goddesses, witches, mystics, and other airborne females
- A house full of females: plural marriage and women’s rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Or of various feminist book titles featuring the noun?
Or the vast amount of people who use the noun self-referentially in dating communities (eg, “F4F/M”), classifieds (eg, “need a roommate […] females only”), or natural communication? In conventional language, it’s an acceptable word.
Maybe you have this wrong, and instead it’s those who in effect (which may defy intent) stigmatize an entire gender by claiming their noun is wrong instead of embracing it as a word of pride.
This analogy fits language policing self-saboteurs.
Imagine online activists started condemning usage of the word dutch as a slur. It’s bizarre: there is nothing wrong with the dutch, yet they’re acting as though we should think so & resist that urge? Why are they propagating problematic presuppositions we don’t have about the dutch? Why are they trying to make this official? Are they some special breed of stupid?
Continuing this analogy, they drag you into fights by claiming you’re a racist for using the word when you’re not actually saying anything offensive about the dutch. You & the rest of society know the word dutch isn’t offensive, yet these activists insist it is by pointing to some fringe online community spewing vitriolic propaganda about dutch inferiority specifically using the word dutch. You repudiate their claim by asking why some fringe group irrelevant to wider society gets to decide the meaning of words, but they condemn your “hurtful” language and say you’re as bad as them or one of them. Don’t be an asshole & use another word like Dutchperson, Netherlander, or Hollander they say: it’s the right thing to do & shows socially conscientious, moral rectitude.
It’s so weird how they flip both of those words around. Like, they’ll say “females” instead of women, but then, they’ll say “a woman doctor.”
Woman doctor is much older, and makes grammatical sense under the assumption that doctor is an exclusively male title. Female doctor implies that male and female are both ordinary categories of doctors.
I think it would be “Doctrix” in older versions of English.
The -trix suffix was dead long before there were many female doctors, only surviving in dominatrix.
When my grandparents died, my mother kept referring to herself as the executrix while handling the estate. People would visibly cringe every time she did, until I got her to stop.
Executrix is still common when dealing with estates tho?
Perhaps it varies regionally, but even the lawyer cringed, and didn’t use it himself.
Yeah, I only discovered the word when I read “doctoress” in a translation I was proofing and knew there was something going on there.
I tend to drive more when my family goes on trips, while my wife acts as navigatrix.
Then we both cackle while the kids ignore us in the back.
Cool word, it’s fun to put the emphasis on different syllables. I like it on the I.
That’s such an American take.
Here in Australia female doctor makes grammatical sense, and woman doctor sounds ridiculous. Woman doctor would have the same assumption as it also has an opposite in man doctor, which sounds equally as ridiculous unlike male doctor.
Now you could say my doctor is a woman and that makes perfect sense whereas my doctor is a female is ferengi.
Woman doctor and nan doctor are just gynecologist and andrologist
Isn’t a “nan doctor” a grandgynocologist?
Or a gerontologist.
I only noticed it now and it was a hilarious typo
But only if you look around and then covertly gesture at your genitals while saying it.
Every time I see the word used outside of a biological context, I imagine the person looks like this:
Non-native speakers in shambles. On the other hand, even males are not safe from us
Female is a great adjective but an inappropriate noun.
is it just grammar or just incels ruining that word?
A bit of the second one, but not fully? I don’t think using “female” as a noun when talking about a person sounded good, but it’s appropriate for animals. I imagine incels chose that because it wasn’t the way people spoke, but was only weird at worst, so it wasn’t that suspicious initially.
Keeping up with this bullshit is almost a full time job.
That’s a good way to put it.
I hope that you can extend some grace to people born in different eras. When I hear something like “woman employee,” I hear my Greatest Generation grandparents, and believe me, neither “woman doctor” or “woman driver,” nor any similar construction was complimentary.
I think it was the Boomers who started to use “female” as an adjective, because it sounded clinical, descriptive, and non-judgemental. So “female employee” sounds much better to my ear. (But, FWIW, the use of “female” as a noun is total cringe.)
Yeah, inceldom has coopted the word, and now I hear that “woman doctor” is preferred, but it’s not always easy to remember that on the fly when you grew up with the opposite connotation.
how much I hate the euphemism treadmill.
Yeah, inceldom has coopted the word
Only if we let them, and anyone who does is an incompetent advocate choosing to let sexists decide the meaning of words for everyone else when everyone else has at least as much power to do otherwise. It’s complacent cooperation with the enemy that purports ethical superiority while being the opposite.
Older activists who understood the pitfalls of establishing their own stigmatization in the language at least had the sense not to cooperate with their enemies. They’d more creatively reappropriate or reclaim words or embrace them as terms of pride. That lesson seems lost here.
“Cry more 🤣🤣🤣”.
My man, you might have just hurt my feelings for no good reason, why are you so happy about it?! I’ve only seen it in YT comments, TBF, so they might all just be bots. Hopefully.
lol cry more nerd
Bit of an older one, had it come up recently and it reminded me of when I was younger: “bleeding hearts/bleeding heart liberals”. lol okay, sandbrain.
My heart doesn’t BLEED, that’s only for pussy bitches. Real men’s hearts are DRY.
Tangent: this is like “is water wet?”. Do our veins bleed? There’s definitely blood in them.
It’s not particularly wet, which is why fire fighters add a wetting agent to make wet water to extinguish fires more effectively.
“I’m not political” almost always really means “I think Hitler did nothing wrong”
One time I said “oh I don’t get involved in politics” by which I meant, “I don’t organize with any particular party” (which was the context). But I think about that all the time and hope they did not think what I always think when people say they are apolitical.
I’m very political, I just generally prefer non-partisan work.
“I tell it like it is” Proceeds to be bizzarly racist/ sexist/ homophobic and then gets offended at everyone when they tell them to knock it off.
Good lord, this thread.
Does anybody else like to get angry over petty bs?
Some of the stuff here is pearl clutching worthy I’ll admit
“I’m a patriot!”
Okay so, 1) I wasn’t questioning your patriotism until you said that. And 2) with zero exceptions, everyone I’ve ever heard say that turned out to be a Christian nationalist.
“im apolitical, or dont like to talk about politics” or instantly saying " anti-woke stuff", or when you say your supporting a nazi, they respond with" you have stop reading the news, or saying something to delfect/.
I think “patriot” is one of those titles that should only be given, and that ideally happens to someone who’s done something especially heroic or monumental for their country. I think of myself as patriotic, because I care a lot about my country despite its enormous, gangrenous flaws. I want to help it realize its potential. But to say “I’m a patriot” these days – I agree with you – really only connotes blind nationalism.
Fits pretty neatly with the word “humble” - it should only be said externally.
“Israel has a right to self defense.”
Insofar as any country does, sure. You’re right that it seems to be only ever said in reference to Israel by absolute garbage people, though.
Yeah. Same energy as ‘why are you making me hit you?’
And then it turns out that they know less about the conflict than my senile grandmother.
This dude’s giving “chud” at best. I can think of worse names.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64810156
Netanyahu’s son ‘highly vulnerable target’ while living in Miami as he dodges IDF reserve
Someone who uses the word “chud?”
* not that I’ve ever heard it before
Hehe i downvoted you too ;)
Cheers! 🥂
Like someone else said, the stuff made to make someone look militaristic, or more like a strong/scary dude, at least in their eyes.
Gun rights themed stickers on their phone, thin blue line patches or hats, way too much camo, having a massive, overly expensive truck with blacked out windows, and honestly at least in my community, just having anything with an American flag prominently visible on it tends to mean you’re a person that’s… not that nice to be around. Also sometimes common with people that’ve got way too much Christianity themed items, though that’s more of a higher likelihood than a strong certainty.
To give you some examples of what people with any of that have said/displayed to me:
- “I want to be a prison guard so I can boss around the inmates and make them clean the floors while I watch. I might get to taze them too!”
- “I wish those people (homeless woman and her children) outside would stop begging and get a job, I don’t like being asked for money…”
- Deliberately misgendering my coworkers (after being directly verbally corrected by them)
- Preaching so much to me and my coworkers (about specifically hyper-conservative christian values. She goes to a church where women aren’t allowed to be pastors or preach at all) that one of my Christian coworkers who had a cross necklace had to hide it because the woman got so excited from seeing it on him that her nonstop preaching made him have a panic attack
- A cop telling me I’m doing my job wrong, after I showed him the state law saying I was allowed to do that (he proceeded to do nothing about what he was called there for, and leave after chatting with the security guard for 10 minutes, on the clock)
- Sexually assaulted one of my coworkers
I’ve never had any experiences even remotely close to that from people who just… didn’t feel the need to compensate for their masculinity with guns and big trucks, or justify their actions with Jesus and “patriotism.” Sure there’s always some general rudeness or people just being ignorant or inconsiderate, but nothing on that scale.
Whenever someone I talk to is surprised by the behavior of cops, I always remind them to think back to highschool and remember the kids that claimed “I’m gonna be a cop”, and how they thought of those kids. That’s why ACAB, it’s a profession that attracts the wrong folk, and even when it does pull in decent people they either get pushed out or become one of them to get by.
