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⌈ Secret Post #4065 ⌋

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[Grace and Frankie]

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[Gillian Anderson]

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[Actress Martha Higareda as Kristin Ortega in Altered Carbon]

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[Supernatural S01E09, "Home"]

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[FX's Legion]

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[Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey]

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08. https://i.imgur.com/846oK7X.png
[The Shape of Water; linked at OPs request, it's a dildo]

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Queer. Everything about about the culture around it is exactly the type of people I want to avoid, at least in a fandom setting, despite not being straight myself.

I'm basically gay but will, once in a blue moon, be interested in guys, too. I feel closer to "gay" than "bi" because of the 50/50 implication, but I loved the simple elegance of "queer" as "Not straight". Now every SJW teen is "queer", even if they objectively are in no way homosexual. Seriously offputting now..

+1

And also "sapphic."

Words that rhyme with jump are almost always gross sounding.

Thumpity-thump-thump.

And whump is interesting.

INDECENT!

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(Anonymous) - 2018-02-20 00:46 (UTC) - Expand

Icky Thump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OjTspCqvk8

Live at home to mean still lives with their parents. Everybody lives at home except homeless people, ffs.

Haha yes! I've been saying this for so long but have never come across anyone who shares this opinion.

I only hear it from young people who haven't had any other home, but yeah, it's silly.

It's the same in German, too. "Ich wohne noch zuhause" means "I'm still living with my parents". And even around people my age, who have been living in their own homes for about fifteen/twenty years, "are you going home for the holidays" means "are you going to visit your parents for the holidays".

I had to explain to somebody in a class I'm in AT LENGTH that when I was visiting my parents who live 2000 miles away from me that that wasn't "going home" for Thanksgiving because I didn't live there and my parents weren't even living in the same state that they lived in when I was a kid and still lived with them. I don't think she ever got it.

Vape

A fair bit of derogatory sexual slang: gash, slash, gape, carpet muncher, fudgepacker, etc..

There's some "discourse" terms on tumblr that I don't take seriously anymore.

"Problematic"

"Smash the patriarchy"

"Punching up"

"Kill whitey"

singular they

i get that it's for a cause which is fine enough but HOLY SHIT is it clunky

It's not for a cause, well, not JUST for a cause. It's just how English works now when referring to a person whose gender we don't know or a hypothetical person of any gender.

"You said you invited a friend. Are they coming?"

"I'm just going to leave this extra water bottle here for whoever wants it. They can take it if they need it."

It's how people already talk. My problem is that the singular they is typically used in impersonal contexts like the above - i.e. to refer to someone you haven't met - so it feels a bit wrong to use it to refer to someone who is standing right there. Still, I think it's the best option because it's already in the language.

It's really not that clunky IME

some wonk once edited banksy's wikipedia article so that every reference to "he" or "him" was changed to "they", because "he was anonymous so nobody could confirm his gender and it was wrong to imply he was male", or some shit

the result was just agony to read

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(Anonymous) - 2018-02-20 19:52 (UTC) - Expand

"friendly reminder that..."

Because it's not really friendly, and it's not really a reminder. It's more like a passive aggressive callout and everyone knows it, but we're all going to pretend that wrapping in faux bff terms changes everything.

I was going to say exactly the same thing.

"fair enough"

Because it always feels like when someone answers that way what they're really saying is more like, "that sounds fake but okay."

See, I've always used it in a, "Didn't think of it that way and that's fair"

Maybe it's just the people I'm around?

I mostly use it in situations where something is just a matter of taste, or preference, or viewpoint, and I don't agree with what the person is saying because I don't share their point of view, but I also don't really disagree with it or dispute their point of view. To me, all it's saying that the point of view is fair even if I don't personally share it.

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