Soggy

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't put too much stock in the weird shit Johnson says without a second corroborating source, personally. He's an old Marine with some cliche drill sergeant characterization because he started as a throwaway side-character.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Plenty of people who were diagnosed, or just grew up, before ASD replaced Asperger's as the preferred nomenclature don't see themselves as in the same bucket as someone who is nonverbal or otherwise severely impacted.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Sounds like you don't know very much about ecology. Outliers are very often punished in nature.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'd say that most people don't mask as well as they think they do, it's just that people also don't pay attention to others very much.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I don't think it can ever be that thin. There's too many constraints: needs to block other light, needs to be at a comfortable focal distance, needs power and a processor, not to mention the input and audio components...

Augmented reality glasses, yeah I can see that.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

It's just pointing out that your position isn't consistent and seems to be related to how close the subject is to your own experience, while providing examples of the phenomenon of turning a derogatory generalization into a broadly understood concept that isn't necessarily attached to its root. (Barbarian is a fun one since the word was making fun of the way foreigners talked. I don't know of a direct contemporary comparison because people would rightfully point out that "chingchonger" is wildly offensive.) "Mansplaining" is a behavior specifically called out as a self-assured-man-assumes-ignorance-in-woman-and-condescendingly-explains-a-thing. It's not just dudes talking, it's not all men, and it doesn't hurt men that the behavior is identified. Mansplaining is a particular tone and context, it's hyper-specific language critical of one facet of patriarchal dominance and the assumed value of masculinity.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Alright well the key difference is that males are not a historically disadvantaged class and that makes a big difference.

Do you rail against "Karen" as an insult? What about philistine, Luddite, or barbarian? Do you fight this hard against "eat the rich" or ACAB?

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The word is formed from an experience common enough that the word caught on overnight. We don't need to get #notallmen about this.

(Also, "I'm struggling to think of examples": thinks of several examples)

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm sure that will be very comforting to all the people who still live in places where they can be executed for crimes like "sodomy" or "heresy".

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

He didn't even have to be a shit person to get rich! Just turned out to be one anyway.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

"Language changes and evolves over time, so we could also make a new word for this phenomenon."

We did, you just don't like it.

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