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Comments

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking anything a little risqué is "creepy" or "gross". OK, grandma.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

Do you think that there's anything that actually is creepy or gross? What do you understand as legitimate uses of that word?

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

No, I can't think of anything that I'd call creepy or gross. Guess I'm that fucked up by my life experiences.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

What do you understand other people to mean when they talk about creepiness or grossness?

Sorry, I hope this isn't the third degree, it's just an interesting topic to me.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, that something makes them feel icky?

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

So, like

The issue that you have is people calling things you consider reasonably normal icky? Is that a fair summation?

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Stalking? I'd consider that creepy/gross.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like you're misreading the current trend of using "creepy" and "gross" as informal words denoting really troubling and bad stuff (ie: men getting obsessive about the friendzone is "creepy," X mildly racist phrase is "gross", etc.).

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

How am I misreading it?

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

Well, in that it's not just labeling 'anything even a little risque" as "gross." It's not about prudishness or childishness, it's actually a language trend that's attaching more force to those words (I guess it's an ironic use? Take that as you will). So even though taken at face value, I can see how it could be read that way, the spirit of the trend is much more critical and serious.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

SA

To put it differently, it's literally about using the words "creepy" and "gross" in a new way, with a slightly new meaning.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

NA
And man do I ever hate the propensity of that new usage. Not so much creepy because I still feel like it's pretty accurate for the way its used, but I feel like gross is way overused to a ... gross degree.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

the spirit of the trend is much more critical and serious

I think that's my beef with it. People with this attitude seem dead set on stomping out any sort of humor or playfulness or fun in the world for the sake of their high moral aspirations. And I just don't want to live in that super serious world, you know?

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

I think generally people take things seriously because they are thrown into confrontation with its seriousness, not because of some kind of pretense to moral probity.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[diet_poison]

Some of that stuff is creepy. Totally depends on context. I wouldn't call all risqué stuff creepy, and I don't think I've seen that as a huge trend?

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[sparrow_lately]

IAWTC--risque and creepy are different things entirely.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[sparrow_lately]

Eh, I use gross as shorthand for "risqué things that are also creepy and carry remnants of harmful or abusive power structures." So, like, men hitting on women in the service industry is gross, for example.

Also, people are gonna use words to describe how they feel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

I don't want to jump to conclusions but are you blitzwing

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

No, but I agree with a lot of blitzwing's opinions.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting.......

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

Are you sure this isn't like The Matrix, and you haven't been Agent-Smith-cloned into a copy of Blitzwing?

Incidentally, I'm watching The Matrix right now. Good flick.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, I'm sure.

Where is Blitzy, anyway? Haven't seen them around lately.

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

THE MATRIX IS A GOOD MOVIE

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

lol

Re: Current trends that annoy you

[feotakahari]

It's a mistake to assume no one had a problem with something just because people who had a problem with it lacked the power to change it. When O. Henry joked about pouring gasoline on black people and burning them alive, that was never a humorous joke for black people. Black people simply weren't among the audience Henry cared about.