Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

y'all must REALLY hate social media

Holy shit, just discovered that the publishing industry has apparently adopted "pbook" to mean "printed book". Fuck that shit

Jesus

make my book the pbook

"Adult Beverage"

― p.j.b. (pj), Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7

I've been fighting this battle for years. It's my Antietam.

"a drink" referring to that is so perfect that i don't know why anyone would use anything else

"A bridge too far"--CNN must have used that 15 times in two hours yesterday in connection with Spicer's resignation (basically, "After all the humiliation, why was Scaramucci's appointment a bridge too far?").

The media generally are lazy like that. We had 2 Greens senators resign within a week due to dual citizenship fubars, and no joke, about 15-20 media outlets quoted Wilde's "To lose one [senator] may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” in the space of 24 hours on TV, print and twitter.

'mansplaining'

an ugly portmanteau that's getting overused and just means condescending.

Perhaps you need someone to womansplain it to so you can manderstand.

Wait theres a mansplaining now?

I find most uses of the term 'mansplaining' are themselves condescending. I suppose the user of it could say they are only fighting fire with fire. my own feeling is that doing the exact same thing you say you despise is not a good way to stop that thing from happening.

"mansplaining" has been so oversaturated for a long time now, I was in a coffee shop and a woman was correcting her coffee order and explaining it (politely) to the female employee. after she was done, she said "sorry for mansplaining to you." ............

haha

A true mansplainer never apologises.

How do you drown a mansplainer? In a "well, actually..."

(Companion joke: How do you drown a hipster? In the mainstream.)

lmao

Hear about the hipster burnt his tongue etc etc

admittedly

I will confess that I like that one.

'On here' to describe participation in a social media platform, rather than 'here'.

Mansplaining mainsplaining - from the archives:

Mansplaining is when men explain things for women, instead of letting them have their own agency and explaining things themselves. In that sense Sherlock's final summation was a perfect example of it, because it was inexplicable why the women couldn't explain their scheme and motivation themselves, and this being inside Sherlock's dream is no excuse, because Watson still had plenty of agency there... Unless the point of that scene was to expose Sherlock's inner sexism, but it didn't really read that way.

Also, Aimless' "what if the genders were flipped" excuse doesn't really work, because mansplaining is about the difference in power positions of genders, so a woman can't mansplain, just like a white Westerner can't be a victim of racism.

― Tuomas, Monday, 4 January 2016 20:14

Can I just get a steer on yr purpose for posting that before I reflexively fp

itt: old white men shout at language for having the audacity to change

Old!

emil.y otm

Not only are they WHITE, they have also lived too many years!

from what I can observe/have been told by ppl in my life who are not cis men, "mansplain" caught on because it is useful and described/crystallized a real thing that they had repeatedly experienced but for which there was not a word. so that seems like a good expansion of the language to me. but I probably seem like a bot on this thread at this point. and yes I recognize the potential irony of this post possibly constituting mansplaining itself. and also I have no idea of abanana's gender! but c'mon, this word is a functional one.

Why would you seem like a Bot?

Might be restricted to my family and our circle of farmers but so many of them use "doubt" to mean "probably".

re: Botness, I just feel like a few months ago the thread's tone/priorities shifted a bit and i am now almost weekly on here defending some neologism associated with the young left, tumblr feminists, gender nonconformity, "SJWs" or whatever other shadowy figures of how The Politically Correct Kids Are All Too Sensitive, But Really I Am Just Offended Because Words Have Precious, Precious Meanings, Honest That's All That Bugs Me etc. to be fair to ilx I am bringing a lot of baggage to the table from dumb shit I see in comments threads elsewhere on the internet. and I probably seem like a broken record, or a bot.

I'd have to check, but I think most of the whining I do on here has to do with internet-specific language.

I'm pretty miffed at how the definition of mansplaining has changed since Shakespeare's time.

so many of them use "doubt" to mean "probably".

I've never heard of this. How is it used?

I think most of the annoyance here is about words and phrases (and memes) used endlessly on social media that may have been clever or meaningful the first hundred or so times but now seem like the sped-up equivalent of someone at work saying "Well, Isn't that Special" or "Not that there's anything wrong with that" everyday for ten years and still thinking it's hilarious.

JMM- "I doubt it's going to rain today" means "it's probably going to rain today".

Has the alt-right changed mansplaining and now feminists are afraid to use it for fear of looking misogynistic?

If you gave a million sensitive young ppl a typewriter and ten years they'll ultimately produce the works of tumblr.

@ President Keyes - I could understand that I guess, just all the experience I have with "mansplain" is in situations like a friend on facebook venting about some asshole customer that was mansplaining how to do their job. like the actual reason the word caught on. i have seen two, possibly three posts like that this week from friends, and none of the "well isn't that Special?" variety so maybe I am in some weird bubble but idk.

Emancipatory complaining.

sigh

JMM- "I doubt it's going to rain today" means "it's probably going to rain today".

Come again?

i was irked by this recent piece https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/goops-misogynistic-mansplaining-hit-job/amp/ which uses it despite no obvious sexism from the man, just idiocy and greed.

it goes beyond condescension into "how dare you threaten my money, FLAME ON"

Suddenly I never want to hear "adjacent" or "-adjacent" ever again.

I think most of the annoyance here is about words and phrases (and memes) used endlessly on social media that may have been clever or meaningful the first hundred or so times but now seem like the sped-up equivalent of someone at work saying "Well, Isn't that Special" or "Not that there's anything wrong with that" everyday for ten years and still thinking it's hilarious.

Used to work with someone who when you asked him how are you, would reply "not three bad". Unfailingly.

x post dmac

For my own entertainment mostly in revisiting a slightly ludicrous meta-example of mansplaining.

I think there's a thing where 'masplaining' is used in twitter(and other social media) to basically means something like "no backsies x infinty", as this way of preemptively categorising any and all disagreement with your position as illegitimate - and this is part of why it can irk? (I think this technique of constructing elaborate reasons why all disagreement with you is automatically bad and wrong is something all "sides" do on social media, it's not specific to social justice language, but a lot of people's exposure to social justice jargon comes primarily from when it's being used in this way, maybe?)

"think there's a thing where 'masplaining' is used in twitter(and other social media) arguments" that should say

JMM- "I doubt it's going to rain today" means "it's probably going to rain today".

Come again?

― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:38

When my family members or people who work with them says "I doubt those pipes need changed" it means "those pipes probably need changing".

I don't know how far this extends.

Dr c is a good poster and not a bot and I say this as at least a member of the perceived sjw haterz on ilx and itt

Luna that is a good clarification and ftr I will now not fp that important cultural post