A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Absolutely.
A few years ago, there were two phrases being kicked around. Black Lives Matter, and All Lives Matter.
To many white people, All Lives Matter sounded like a positive message, but the black people understood it for what it really was: "Fuck your black lives."
I heard a good way to call out that bullshit.
The next time the person says something about their particular god, say “All Gods Matter”. It throws them into a tizzy because how dare you. Yup, welcome to what it feels like.
i explained the concept to my gf like this. so you say: increase wages of female workers? naah, increase wages of all workers!
immediately she was like huh... damn, you right.
Well, it’s more often biased against them, and with fewer resources, they’re more affected by it.
I probably agree, but I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean that people who are in a disadvantaged group in a society are more sensitive to language that is biased against their group? So women notice (and can be offended) by phrases like "you throw like a girl" while men might not care, or even notice, that it's sexist.
Or do you mean people in disadvantaged groups are, in general better at detecting bias in language? So, poor people are better at spotting politic bias in reporting?
The first interpretation. I'm not sure whether or not it is true.
I 100% agree with your point of view then, it seems very logical.
Let's say I'm immune to mosquito bites. I wouldn't even notice one or two buzzing about. But I'm very reactive to bites, and get itchiness that lasts for what feels like hours, so as soon as something buzzes nearby, I'm panicking.
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You mean like slurs and deogratory terms?
I mean obviously.
You have no idea how often I got called "ching chong" while in the US.
Or how often I get called a “廢柴” by my parents.
I'm just so tired and broken.
Like, if I was like independent and rich , I could just ignore that like "fuck you I'm rich", I can fuck over people who use those terms against me, or like... just ignore them, since wealth means I can afford protection against those threats anyways.
I should hope you get 0 downvotes as that is an unambiguously true statement
What was the original Chinese?
「弱勢族群對偏見敏感。」 "for good reasons" is added to clarify intent.
You should not "correct" the post by pasting this into a translator.
「弱勢族群對偏見敏感。」
Wow, the original sounds like something my mom would say to me. Feels so much worse.
The 族 feels really... idk it feels very insulting for some reason. Like you know as in the so-called “啃老族”, the 族 feels so... like it "others" you. Like, it uses other people's failures as a reference point, like "see those losers are the [X]族, you don't wanna be like them do you?"
Then anytime your parent wanna insult you, they throw you into that category of people. To make you feel bad because "you now part of the inferior group", because your parents said so.
Lile that sounds so toxic you cannot even fix the phrase by adding "for good reasons", I mean, its literally using 弱 "weak" as one of the characters.
Like parents always tell you to 堅強 or some shit, if a boy cries, you aren't a 男子漢大丈夫，流汗不流淚 anymore, you are a "懦夫", "弱者". Showing expressions is not allowed. Emotions is weakness.
I mean of course I'd feel vulnerable and sensitive to insults. Because its literally an attack from within.
Like... there's a power dynamic at play. The parent is always more powerful, so in this case, the child is literally 弱 "weak". Of course their parents opinions are more sensitive to them.
Not only I have to handle bullying and racism, I also have to handle my own birthparents using toxic language against me. Attacked from both sides. What the hell.
The 族 feels really… idk it feels very insulting for some reason.
確實，用「弱勢群體」會比較好聽，因為「群體」一詞還沒有遭受汙染。「族」字通常用來表示外加分類，^[來源請求]^所以複詞褒貶全依 [X] 決定，如「草莓*族」一詞就十分刺耳。不過，通勤族、開車族、家族等詞就沒有負面意涵。
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Off topic, but 作为大陆来的人，那传统字体 hurts my brain for some reason lol.
Like sometime I'd change the keyboard settings to traditional and use it for fun, but actually reading it makes my brain spin 头晕 lol
Yeah, as a 看得懂汉字的 native English speaker, seeing 族 used to describe both ethnicity and things as mundane as e.g. 开车族 always hits in a weird way. Reading 弱势族群 there would have struck me as the speaker looking down on them. I wouldn't have got the "for good reason", not because it's not literally there, but rather because I probably would have instinctively interpreted the writer as not being sympathetic - something like "all those damn poor people" as if he were to continue on in an ignorant rant about his taxes going to undeserving people on welfare or something. 弱势群体 definitely doesn't have that connotation.
Anywho, thanks for sharing.