Would someone brave care to investigate the use of "adult" as a verb?
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It means "act like an adult."
Would someone brave care to investigate the use of "adult" as a verb?
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Would someone brave care to investigate the use of "adult" as a verb?
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That last line is basically Tumblr's motto.
Misogynoir: Misogyny against black women.
Person of size: Fat person. They don't use POS for it like they use POC for person of colour though, lol.
This "word" is even on Wikipedia.Misogynoir: Misogyny against black women.
Queer Coded/Queer Coding:
Pretty sure Patrick Bateman (i'm assuming that's what she meant when she said "the murderer in American Psycho) is not gay, unless I'm forgetting something. He dresses/acts like that because he's a rich yuppy boy.
Misogynoir: Misogyny against black women.
That sounds like fancy wine. Can't they just call misogyny specifically towards black women "black misogyny" or something?
And to me, "queer coding" just seems based on stereotypes of gay people. "Oh this character is kinda effeminate. OBVIOUSLY GAY!" I thought LGBT activists were trying to break down these stereotypes.
Latinx: Gender neutral term for people of Latin heritage.
Even though transphobes don't think trans women are women and therefore wouldn't be misogynistic towards them.
Spoon -- an idiosyncratic metaphor for "physical and/or mental effort". To understand it you have to read a long-ass story. The gist is that people with chronic physical or mental illnesses often feel they have a fixed daily "allowance" of energy. They have to plan their lives so that they would not "run out". To them, having to deal with contingencies is mentally taxing and might provoke emotional outbursts -- Spare me! I don't have the spoon for that! -- Proper Tumblr usage include that time when you are too lazy to do the laundry, and when you pretend you have depression or autism.
Great. So tumblrinas are abusing the Spoon Theory now? Fucking hell.
I know Christine Miserandino from a now-defunct forum she and her friends used to run, and her long-ass story has actually done a lot to help people better understand the physically taxing nature of chronic illness (in general, not just lupus). If you can find any tumblrinas actually using spoons as an excuse for laziness, please point me to them so I can tell them how completely and utterly triggered I am.heh
Pomosexuality: When you're sexually attracted to being a pretentious piece of shit
gynosexuality: Attraction to women (includes Straight men and Lesbians, as well as the 6 gorillion other genders)
androsexuality: Attraction to men (Gay men, Straight women, you know the drill)