Being woke
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
Ring, Ring..."Hello birthing person. It's the person you birthed calling to wish you a Happy Birthing Person Day. I gotta go now because another birthing person fucker wants to use the phone. Bye".
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“The team had 2000 man hours on this project” - offensive
“Wal-Mart wil be closed for Christmas” - offensive
“Eldetly” is offensive
“Recent graduate” is offensive
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Queer used to be bad. But now it’s good. Homosexual is very bad. It’s gay. Except now some younger folks find gay offensive so it’s LGBTQ+
Wonder if they know what the “G” stands for ?
in the lunchroom a coworker asks a guy if wants to eat out for lunch. guy replies," no. today i brown bagged it" and goes to the refrigerator to grab his lunch. woke HR cunt is also in the lunchroom and points out to the guy that he will be be subject to disciplinary action while he's holding a brown paper bag containing a box of pink lemonade and a tuna fish sandwich.
“Wheelchair-bound” is prohibited but “Confined to a Wheel” is the recommended replacement
That’s an excellent point that I’ve tried to suggest to my more progressive fiends
After George Floyd it seems the left pushed too hard, too fast, and too far on every issue. Now the right is pushing back equally as hard.
Now yes, there are some things that aren't acceptable today that might have been 30+ years ago. But that has been the case for most of my 25+ years of professional work. In most places, simply avoiding politics and religion and not getting too personal is a winning recipe. In mixed company, talking about things like kid activities, vacations and similar topics are always safe ground.
And yes, it seems that some employees in a handful of companies (mostly CA based) have been pushing their employers to wade into state-level political issues, but I expect that to be short-lived. Ron DeSantis recently made an example of Disney when it tried to interfere in FL educational and social politics and it was an object lesson for other companies to stay in their lanes. I also strongly suspect that CEOs with "woke" employees won't be as susceptible to pressure from their workforces once the labor market rebalances.
These things all come in cycles and rarely gain serious traction in the mainstream. I'm not going to get worked up over flash in the pan stuff normally residing on the fringes.
But getting rid of right to work aka right to fire laws. Paid maternity and paternity leave. Living wages. Etc are more pressing issues.
That's how words like "Latinx" get used, even when most Latinos/Latinas/Hispanics think it butchers the beautiful, gendered Spanish language.
Or announcing their pronouns, which I've never heard done outside of Twitter, or Kamala Harris pandering in a presidential debate.
Or woke universities, and only woke universities, pandering that they're on stolen Native American land (that the "acknowledged" tribe probably stole from other Native Americans, LOL).
Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, when they're not.
Similarly, adapting our language in a manner that assumes gender fluidity has powerful implications that go far beyond accommodating a very tiny % of the population who may truly suffer from gender dysphmorphia. When we make the default assumption of "gender" disconnected from biology, it has other ramifications, like causing potential gender confusion in the developing minds of young children who are often already very confused and discomforted by the changes their bodies are undergoing. It also by default buttresses arguments for other extreme policy positions, like allowing biological males unfettered access to female safe spaces and to compete against females in physical sports.
As a father to young girls, I'd much rather a tiny % of the population feel less accepted than for my girls to be subjected to everything I've outlined above. So you'd better believe that I'm holding the line on the language usage because it does not exist in a vacuum. If I have to choose between the safety and wellbeing of a generation of girls vs. a tiny percentage of boys who feel (and maybe even even think) like girls, it's not a hard choice for me to make.
Maybe Fathers Day will be Sperm Donors Day? Or Ejaculatory Partners Day? I’m sure that will look good on a card!
This is my view. Why change everything for a tiny percentage of the population?
It would also be nice if boys weren't allowed to compete against girls in sports - especially contact sports where the risk of injury exists. Right now it has been limited mostly to swimming and track, which has been bad enough, but sooner or later some boy who feels like a girl is going to want to play girl's soccer or lacrosse and then all hell is going to break loose.
I guess one person's definition of "bigotry" is another's definition of common fucking sense.
Here is how Brents described it after the fight:
“I’ve fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can’t answer whether it’s because she was born a man or not because I’m not a doctor. I can only say, I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right. Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn’t move at all in Fox’s clinch."
I think you're right, this is part of the progressive overreach that triggers conservative backlashes. That said, language is always moving and its usually old people that get the most irate about the lastest shift. 5000 years ago, some proto-Italic grandpa was surely complaining about how every noun has to be male or female now, and what the fuck is the matter with these kids.
Not just conservatives. They are losing a lot of the Independents and even some Dems are changing their voter registrations. They have driven the train to crazytown on so many fronts, including inflationary economic policies; renewables mandates driving up the cost of gas; educational policies that are causing many parents concern about what their kids are being taught in school; social policies including transgender protections which are causing concern among many parent with girls...
I could go on. It's a shit show on all fronts. They are losing parents in particular in droves, especially after elongated school closures and parents actually seeing the curriculum being taught to their kids. Republicans' message to parents nowadays is simple and powerful: We won't let them sexualize your children in elementary school, we won't let boys hurt your girls or take their spots on the playing field and, oh yeah, we'll give you greater power to choose your kids' schools if you don't like what's happening in the ones they attend.
But it's nice to see you want to shield them from any thoughts of social equality.
If your pimp and love affair stories are any indication, the only person who preys on desperate hookers is you. Just ask the crack whore who you pimped out for 5 years before she finally escaped. 😉
Even today MA is tops a number of rankings lists for its public schools. But nowadays if I lived there now and put my kids in public schools I would be worried about what they were being exposed to re: social policies.
I try very hard to be respectful to everyone and be thoughtful with the words and terms I use. I think most people try to be that way, regardless of their political views. And sometimes over the years I’ve learned better terminology and I’m happy to use it if it makes sense. But I don’t spend one second worrying about what the miserable and the mean have to say about anything. I own my thoughts and my words and if I objectively fuck up, I apologize. And sleep just fine that night.
Would you teach your daughters to take care of their appearance coz one day soon a man like their dad will give them a lit of money to fuck?
And they better be safe coz abortions are immoral
You can be right up there with shadowcat bragging about fucking hookers younger than his granddaughter
But all they were doing was buying, refurbishing, and renting out real estate. And burning through money on weed and lavish parties. It was a great example of how some people want to be fooled.
Oh, and as far as Minneapolis police, I'm laughing at the idea of my 75-year-old therapist responding to a distress call. dEfUnD. Lulz.
https://youtu.be/HVAESeO7dgc