These guys are my age and I can't put into words how embarrassing it is for any man in his 40s to try to reclaim the edginess of his youth by gleefully bringing back the slurs of his high school years. Grow up already. It's long past time to stop being a man-child. - ThreadSky

maxkennerly.bsky.social • 35 days ago

These guys are my age and I can't put into words how embarrassing it is for any man in his 40s to try to reclaim the edginess of his youth by gleefully bringing back the slurs of his high school years.

Grow up already. It's long past time to stop being a man-child.

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I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.

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aplindurrrr.bsky.social•35 days ago

As I've gotten older (mid 30s now), I've noticed this in my group of friends too.

It's like a weird side effect of their mid-life crisis. A yearning for their youth, even the really dumb and bigoted shit.

bchadhill.bsky.social•35 days ago

But that's not even what they're doing! That word wasn't a slur back then. We had to *learn* it was offensive and then we had to *learn* not to use it.

So I don't think this is an attempt to reclaim adolescent edginess. I think it's something worse.

dondechert.bsky.social•35 days ago

If they figured that out, they wouldn't be able to look themselves in the mirror.

murseratched.bsky.social•35 days ago

I once wrote a speech for a public speaking class on why people shouldn't use that word. Pretty pathetic

goodcitizen.bsky.social•35 days ago

The only place that word belongs is on sheet music and only in Italian. Jfc

americanadianto.bsky.social•35 days ago

Seems to be becoming even more common, by both genders and both political spectra. Ugh.

datadrivenmd.social•35 days ago

I had both blocked on Twitter before it became X. I should write a handbook about identifying clout-chasing Nazis

webrant.bsky.social•35 days ago

It's about normalizing hate speech as the well-paid enablers they are.

blandphilosophy.bsky.social•35 days ago

can't imagine being a parent and getting a rush out of calling someone a slur solely because "you get to"

wormeguy.bsky.social•35 days ago

It's fun to relive your youth. Have a night of hanging out with friends from then, playing some Golden Eye, eating some crappy pizza, and talking about those days. Reliving your youth is a good reminder of where you came from and how dumb you used to be.

Remaining there is 🤡

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•35 days ago

No oddjobs

vangelinaspuddy.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's so weird that they watched two recent Netflix stand-up specials that made this point and hitched their wagon like they're automatically part of the edgy in-group.

mrcrouton.bsky.social•35 days ago

This has been a concerted and coordinated effort for some time. Virtually any post on twitter remotely political you will see this word many, many times in the comments.

dvgeebees.bsky.social•35 days ago

yglesias drawing a stussy S on his backpack trying to impress his colleagues

bioturbonick.net•35 days ago

Don't you dare bring the cool S into this.

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ninacoutinho.bsky.social•35 days ago

Seriously. Why is uninspired trolling and the R-word the highest form of comedy for Gen X dudes? Like they learned comedy from Ed The Sock (🇨🇦) or Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (🇺🇸) and stopped there.

doubleboomer.bsky.social•35 days ago

A handful of the biggest man-children on the planet are currently running the entire US government. All of their heroes are man-children. What incentive do they have to grow up? There are no social consequences for this behavior anymore. Like, genuinely asking. What incentive do they have?

realmaplesyrup.bsky.social•35 days ago

I think they're hoping for a big, scolding response. No, dude, I'll just stop associating with you.

djbennyc.bsky.social•35 days ago

But but but Max they like to be edgy centrists!!! Don’t make them call you a slur, ironically!

darthburkie.bsky.social•35 days ago

I’m so glad I grew out of the person I was in college. I said some vile shit, and cringe when I think about it. I’m not saying I’m a virtuous paragon, but I try not to be shitty to people

neureka.bsky.social•35 days ago

We’re three months away from the F words return, aren’t we

darthburkie.bsky.social•35 days ago

The rate this train is going it should be next week.

whipsley.bsky.social•35 days ago

My former coworker who swore up and down that trump never lies, should be called retarded. People that believe in the flat earth, the mud flood, etc. They should be called retarded.

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•35 days ago

Gen Xers really aren't ever gonna live down that whole "brain damage from all the lead" thing, huh?

Just call them stupid, this isn't difficult

whipsley.bsky.social•35 days ago

Serious, if Hilary Clinton would have looked at donald during the debate and said "are you fucking retarded?" She would have won. Instead, we have the dumbest person on earth leading our country.

Ps. Did you just say gen x was retarded?

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•35 days ago

No, I implied that *you* are a moron, and making your generation look bad

whipsley.bsky.social•35 days ago

Because i used the term retarded ? Its offenseive and thats wrong? Yet you are insulting a stranger. You are trying to be offensive. Is that not wrong? What is the difference? Wait, i am starting to get it, are you retarded?

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•34 days ago

Insults and slurs are not the same thing. This has to do with the historical context of their usage. This is extremely basic stuff that even you should have learned as a child if you hadn't been so busy eating paint chips

whipsley.bsky.social•35 days ago

Naw man, when somebody sees musk do a nazi salute and then denies it, thats not stupid, thats fucking retarded. Flat earthers, also retarded. Trump won because people were afraid to call him what he is, RETARDED.

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•35 days ago

Lead eater

whipsley.bsky.social•35 days ago

So true! Anti vaxers who believed the pizza gate conspiracy are just differently abled, not retarded! Just kidding, they are retarded and should be called such

dormantpride.bsky.social•35 days ago

Also, good use of this observation:

dormantpride.bsky.social•35 days ago

At this age, you're supposed to adopt the lingo of your kids to cause them great embarrassment.

cripdyke.bsky.social•35 days ago

Seriously. You wanna recapture your transgressive youth? Go shake a bottle of your dad's Pepsi and wait for him to open it. Throw some water balloons off a balcony. Touch a dead rat in front of your friends to show how brave you are.

This shit is ableist AND cringe.

premiumsteve.bsky.social•35 days ago

Careful, if you make them feel bad for being pieces of shit they’re liable to become even bigger pieces of shit in response

jimfrank.bsky.social•35 days ago

You are on to something here. This is the best explanation for why anyone pays any attention at all to what these assholes say.

monicadlc.bsky.social•35 days ago

This word has such a crazy hold on the elder millennial-X cuspers specifically. I don't think I've ever heard my boomer parents say it, all the younger millennials I know left it in high school, but that 40-49yo crowd won't let it go

luckydoghotsauce.bsky.social•35 days ago

GenX-er here. I had to work to remove it from my vocabulary, but it’s gone. Well worth the effort. Grosses me out that I used to say it so casually. Awful.

hvs.bsky.social•35 days ago

The thing is (I’m in my late 40s) it wasn’t really “transgressive” when I was young, it was in common usage. Once I was older and understood how it hurt people, I stopped saying it. Using it now is simply malicious.

mel-33.bsky.social•35 days ago

It’s not unusual for people to go to therapy as adults and tell you that they were mean jerks in middle/high school and it embarrasses them and they feel guilty about it now. Of course, this assumes the person is maturing and actually capable of feeling shame.

truebleu.bsky.social•35 days ago

Best advice of the day!

david.williamsons.net•35 days ago

If you're going to do the man-child thing, go hard into something innocuous, like model trains or something. Leave the slurs in the past. Sheesh, it's not hard to do.