The way I explain this idea is, if a non-native English speaker hears someone use the word in its common but prescriptively incorrect meaning & asks you what it means, it’s not helpful for you to only tell them what it’s “supposed” to mean. It’s helpful to tell them how it’s actually used.
One time I was on the subway and a fellow passenger sprayed pepper spray into the subway car as he disembarked. But I am constantly told that anyone who has safety concerns about public transit is just racist and classist.
I used to have intrusive thoughts about calling a colleague a slur, precisely because I was so horrified by the idea of doing so.
when people are like “oh so you just block everyone who disagrees with you?” I’m like “no, I also block people who agree with me but are really annoying about it”
the greatest millennial novel is Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
It is very deliberately, very precisely, very vividly about what it was like to be alive in a particular place and time. They talk about the ozone because that’s what people were talking about in 1985! That it feels dated now is a feature, not a bug.
It’s not even just nebulously set in the 80s; it explicitly opens in Oct 1985, spends most of its time in late 1985 & early 1986, and ends in Jan 1990. The main character literally looks at the camera (in the HBO version) and says “It’s January 1990.” Kushner wanted us to know EXACTLY when it’s set.
The ozone references make the play feel more optimistic, because we know that problem got solved.
Also, it is a period piece!!! It’s not supposed to feel timeless, nor is it supposed to feel like it could be set in the 21st century.
I recently watched Angels in America with a friend who suggested they should change all the ozone references to climate change references, and my whole body went “no!!!!!!!!!”
Watched Heated Rivalry with some friends who don’t read fanfiction and am now watching them invent RPF from first principles
I prefer queer.
-It’s shorter.
-I’m tired of arguments over how many letters the acronym should have, what order they should go in, what they all stand for, etc.
-I like that it’s vague & expansive. I like not having to specify exactly which letter(s) I am (bc I’m not 100% sure).
oh no
hello I am the target audience for this
-Love Story by Afsana Mousavi
-Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
-Aviary by Maria Dong
-What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed
-Pretend You’re Dead & I Carry You by Julián Delgado Lopera
-Carrying by Samantha Josephs
unfortunately for me this is neurofibromatosis, the disease that I wrote a report on for 9th grade biology
yes.
I always find it obnoxious when people say they’re taking a break from social media, but I got an app that enforces a 20-second delay when I try to open BlueSky, and it immediately made me use this app way less, and it’s great.
They don’t like it when too many people agree with them, because their whole identity is built around being outside the mainstream, and if too many people agree with them, then by definition their opinions become mainstream, and that embarrasses them.
I once recommended this book to a friend and only subsequently learned that she does not like sad books 🙃
idk, not sure we really want 18-year-olds to do chem labs at home with no supervision
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
-Language Disorders
-Marine Mammals
-Linguistic Field Methods
-The Lesbian Novel
-[language redacted for being so rarely studied it’s potentially identifying]
something about a corset
I do understand it, but no one has ever told me what the next step is. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with that understanding, since I don’t work in a health care setting and no one I’m close to is an antivaxxer.
In all fairness, I think there are a lot of people who remain married even when it does not in fact benefit them
Right, you kind of *have* to say that politicians are out of touch or else you seem like you’re a naive rube and/or out of touch yourself. Of course I do think many politicians are in fact out of touch…but if I *didn’t* think that, I’m not sure I’d want to admit it.
I think I could say jerk the fuck off, it’s just hard to think of a pragmatic context for it. Like, I’m horny but mad about it?
Last Night in Nuuk
Angels of the Get-Through by Andrea Gibson
my friend who works at a library told me that librarians have to put locks on dumpsters when they throw books away, because otherwise random people will “rescue” the books and donate them to the library, thinking they’re doing a good deed
dick pics plus captions like “How hard I get when I think about abolishing ICE”
