Newspeak terms you hate

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I have grown to despise the singular “they.” It’s gotten to an extent where someone will specify whether the subject of his sentence is male or female before using “they” every time a pronoun is required. It’s one of those things where, once you’re aware of how clunky and uninformative it is, it becomes grating on one’s mind. If a writer doesn’t know whether the subject of his sentence is male or female, and feels men are over represented in writing, he can still default to “she” as a goto pronoun. This is compounded by whenever “she” is used it’s invariably in reference to a troon.
 
Adult men have used the term "gyatt" to refer to women in general.

"You like gyatts? Are you gay or do you like gyatts?"
 
''Fighting intergenerational trauma''

We get it, you did not actually experience any difficulty yourself, let alone anything traumatic in your life, but someone 100 years ago allegedly did by belonging to an oppressed minority.
 
i'll bring this thread back from the dead

usage of the singular they, especially in the context of: "we don't want to offend this person just in case we correctly clocked him as being male without knowing he identifies as female"

cops are the worst offenders of this - they go so far with this that it impedes searches (e.g. they won't say the race of the suspect or the gender of the suspect when that helps narrow it down)
 
Rootless Cosmopolitan said:
“AuDHD”

Like no fuck you bitch you’re just an antisocial asshole who also likes Adderall
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Based on my personal observations, it actually does exist, even tho severe spergery and annoying scatter-brainedness might seem unreconcillable within one person.
It presents itself by the person getting easily instantly obsessed with an idea, but being chaotic and concentrating on the wrong aspects, the result will be an absolute clusterfuck.
One of those men strongly denies any sperg allegiations. The other one is a troon (of course)
 
I'm probably overlapping with other people but I don't care this is my personal list off the top of my head:
Migrants - just say you're an illegal
Sex worker - just say you're a prostitute
POCs - just say you're a nigger
Latinx - just say you're a beaner
MAGA - the GOAL of the party has changed, it's still the same party. You're still Republican.
Indigenous peoples - I was fine with native American.
Using the word partner to describe someone in a straight relationship.
Gender fluid - just say you're a freak
Substance addiction - just say you're a drunk or a druggie
On the spectrum - just say you're half a retard
Between jobs - just say that you're lazy
Socialist/Communist - just say that you're lazy
Alpha male/Sigma male - just say that you're a pussy
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Semi related, but one that I can't stand that I have taught myself my whole life NOT to say is "mate". I hate that word because it's fake and phony. To any American reading this, when someone abroad refers to you as mate there is a 95% chance they think you're a twat.
 
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