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Priapic immunity. Gotta love it. (You don’t actually gotta love it.)

Safari Archetype, Lawrence of Bourdainia, etc.

Academic wokery tended to focus on nontenured women rather than the old tenured white guys they were rhetorically positioned against.

Misogyny Dave doing his usual "good leftist" thing.

I vaguely think you’re right that it’s some kind of early Scots-Irish immigrant thing but I should look it up

I adopted yall in 2015 as a gender neutral institutional pronoun–y'all is how I refer to a store when speaking to an employee, etc

Go for it. The more, the merrier. /Texan

Second person plural y’all

it's like, yeah. I think it was that it was in the ballpark as a blaccent? and just...

I have a 13-year-old so I still have to hear some of these hot takes at home.

A real waste, and an underlying implication that everyone should stay in their assigned cultural category is even worse. Of course acknowledge influences, inspiration, don't claim undue credit, but almost everything moves around the world and gets remixed.

at least in my social world, I’m not seeing a retreat from social justice, but I am seeing a pretty encouraging degree of “perhaps we should focus less on being right on the internet as a way to fight bigots, and more on actually doing stuff”

Yeah. I think the real lesson here was about the power of self righteous bullying and I hope we really did outgrow it no matter how righteous we are

Woke 1 at its worse (nowhere as bad as conservative authoritarianism) "became a vehicle for social climbing and in-group recriminations. Want to declare someone persona non grata? Invent some social justice grievance. Want people to think you're a good person? Say slogans." bsky.app/profile/whst...

I have faith that they will be back. Unless something worse happens.

well, in K-dramas themselves everyone addresses each other by their "connection name" e.g. brother, sister, uncle, grandma more than their given names. this might have to do more with the K-drama culture rather than English slang.

I've observed multiple different women addressing each other as "bruh", so apparently? In some contexts at least?

Don't forget mayo discourse. Only white, conservative people eat mayo. Lol

I mean, just from a pragmatic perspective the fact that English doesn't have a standard second person plural pronoun, and there are a lot of situations where one might want such a thing. "Y'all" is certainly more intelligible than "yinz."

my secret identity once had a south african white girl on twitter claim she was appropriating aave for using "y'all" nope, kid, just texan

look, the english vosotros is too useful

Didn't we have one of those on this very platform just the other day, though I'm not entirely convinced everyone here got the message

Suppose it's your culture to appropriate culture? I don't wanna be a romebro, but to my understanding that is a huge part of why their military did so well for so long. Just copy the stuff that works well from everyone you meet.

Yeah, "liberal white women with cosmopolitan cultural sensibilities exist in a state of inherent moral debt" was kind of an unspoken undertone of a lot of this nonsense. Weirdly more common than bashing conservative white men.

Oh yeh. White women still aren’t allowed to cry without it being considered manipulative.

Well yeah, of course. Cultural appropriation is a long-standing tradition among white men, and appropriating cultural appropriation is basically spitting in my face.

Yeah…it was a really weird consistent pattern that the most rabid bullshit was saved for women

Culture can’t be appropriated or stolen. Culture is influence. The purpose of culture is to influence — to change art, fashion, food, language, music, etc. Cook, wear, play what you want. Take ideas from other cultures and create new things. Give props to creators and don’t be an asshole. Simple.