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problematic

white women tears

step on a lego

also, if this counts, purposeful lack of pronunciation and good grammar to sound... I don't even know, more internety? For example

i hate white girls, srsly they are so problematic i hope they all step on legos ugh

Ugh, problematic doesn't sound like a word to me anymore because it gets thrown into every conversation now.

"male tears" "cis tears" Really, anyone's tears. What the fuck is the point joking about someone being so upset they cry?

I think the joke is more. "their misery is delicious because they deserve it"

But yeah...I agree with the sentiment.

The things that bothers me about the "[whatever] tears" is that it assumes that all the people described with the tears are vehemently opposed to those who are unlike them.
I saw a comment about "all the het tears" on an article about yet another corner of America finally getting around to legalising gay marriage. The comment basically says that all heterosexuals are so opposed to gay rights that they weep when something progressive happens. And while it might be true that a rampant homophobe is most likely het, it only goes one way.
Clearly, there are enough pro-gay voters in America to decide to legalise gay marriage, but there are far far more het people than non-het people, and all the "tears" logic falls to bits.

Another tears coment I saw was "fangirl tears" and then went on to describe the fangirls in question as stupid and teenagers. The topic in question was a the prospective death of some well-liked character in a TV show. The commenter really wanted to see it happen because "lol the fangirl tears" and it just rubbed me the wrong way because I was just about to say something about how killing the character at this point would make for clunky storytelling and a necessary change in tone, and I'm not a teenage fangirl.

"Step on a Lego" is actually the only currently popular phrase that I actually kind of like, as opposed to mostly ignoring it.

Maybe it's because stepping on Legos was kind of a recurring event turned inside joke in my family when I was growing up.

I still like it because I enjoy seeing these little things replace violent imagery. But I'm a bleeding heart who is disturbed by the casual violence used in language all over the place. I don't expect most people to agree with me.

I'm the kind of person who is actually amused by cartoonish violent hyperbole in casual conversation (if it's good-natured or not being said directly to the person, telling someone to "GO DIE" or something is just rude and often an overreaction), but I just like it because I think stepping on a Lego is inherently funny. XD

For a while, my go-to "curse" was to wish that someone's favourite hat turned into a raccoon and ate the entire contents of their fridge. I'm wishing ill befall the person, but it's more funny than violent and points out that I don't like the person without making me a villain.

I've also picked up on some of the Blackadder curses:
Dear Enemy, I curse you and hope something slightly unpleasant happens to you. Like an onion falling on your head.

Dear Enemy, may the lord hate you and all your kind. May you turn orange in hue, and may your head fall off at an awkward moment.

God, I saw the best nonviolent curse-rant once, and now I can't remember even half of it. It started with "May you be short-changed while making a small purchase, and may that short-changing make you unable to wash your clothes at the laundromat" and spiraled beautifully.

I find the "step on a lego" thing annoying because I love Lego.

Do people ever remember that "Lego" is the brand name? I always think of them as "Lego bricks" or "Lego pieces", as "legos" (which also makes me think of a [Australian?] pasta sauce brand, Leggos).

I also allow for "Hobbit Lego", "Space Lego", "City Lego", etc, because it's specifying specific lines/types in the brand, and remembering to capitalise the brand name as well.

Ugh! I hope I don't offend anyone when I say "My Lego issues! Let me show you them!".

When I was a kid we had a LOT of Lego, and stepping on Lego was a common occurrence. When I first started seeing the line on the internet, it was funny, but now the joke's kind of played out.

And I use the word Lego as a collective noun (like "wheat" or "cattle") and you always capitalise it -- a bucket of Lego, a pile of Lego, a few pieces of Lego, a Lego time machine, a Lego airplane wing that somehow managed to stab me between the toes when I got up to pee at 3AM.

Edited 2013-11-19 20:51 (UTC)

Yes, that is the way I use it as well.

"Problematic" doesn't bother me when it's used correctly. It's a lead in, it states that there is a problem and y=then you go on to explain what the problem is, why it exists, how we can solve it, etc. A statement that something is problematic reads like the first line of an argumentative essay.
Too many people just say "Thing is problematic" and leave it at that, and it's almost as bad as "I can't even" and "this is a thing that happened". Finish your thoughts, people!

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