please educate me what "brick" means here
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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brick is also used as an insult in drag, i.e. “she looks like a total brick. her makeup and outfit are obviously terrible.”
but they meant it as in brick like in basketball as to miss a shot, i.e “you totally bricked that shot, you scrub”
to further explain: it specifically hails from street ball courts, often wedged between urban apartment buildings, which were often brick buildings. "bricking" is shooting a shot so wild as to miss the backboard completely and hit the brick building behind the court.
I always thought it was because the shot was thrown like a brick, meaning with a poor arc to the basket. The ball can't make it through the hoop easily without a high arc on the shot.
Can people stop making up new words! My decrepit 30 something ass can't handle it anymore!
Both of these usages of "brick" are more than 30 years old...
I was going to say being 30 years old puts you about as squarely as you could be in the target demo for yelling "brick" at a bad basketball shot
I’m way older than that and didn’t know either one. Is antisportsball male a gender?
Basketball was never strongly male coded in my youth in my country so you're welcome here
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im going to start a motion banning all comments that contain those words
HexBear, always teaching me stuff i definitely did not know. I thought it was a joke about mansplaining.
That’s what I thought too lol
Like, toxic masculinity resulting in gender affirmation
I just learned I am a brick darn
it's okay, as long as you keep showing up to the court and keep practicing your free throws, you'll see improvement.
a brick is a trans woman who doesn't pass*, but he meant it in the basketball sense as in "you fucked up that shot"
*primarily used by self hating trans women in ny experience, so it makes sense that he wouldn't know it
a brick is a trans woman who doesn't pass*
Changing my name to Attila the Brick for the next 18 months
Thanks,
Now days it's being used as an insult to TERF women. They say they have trouble passing, many such cases.
I don't know either the basketball or the traphobic term 😭. Too much of a himbo to have any xontext for this
"I'm not homophobic, I'm just a hater" energy.
Gender-affirming mansplaining?
a brick is a trans woman who doesn't pass*, so he was apologizing and explaining that that wasn't what he meant. idk if that's mansplaining?
*primarily used by self hating trans women in ny experience, so it makes sense that he wouldn't know it
all i had to do was scroll a little bit further to see that someone thought the same thing I did.
Thirded
"BRICK CIT—"
"NO NOT LIKE THAT!"
Never heard the term brick. Learned a new thing.
just realized tttt terms came from somewhere. or did they develop in parallel like carcinisation