"Female" instead of woman or girl.
Edit: as in, where "woman" or "girl" would be grammatically correct. e.g. "a lot of females work at that company" vs "a lot of women work at that company" or "that company has a lot of female employees"
It's so weird how they flip both of those words around. Like, they'll say "females" instead of women, but then, they'll say "a woman doctor."
I hope that you can extend some grace to people born in different eras. When I hear something like "woman employee," I hear my Greatest Generation grandparents, and believe me, neither "woman doctor" or "woman driver," nor any similar construction was complimentary.
I think it was the Boomers who started to use "female" as an adjective, because it sounded clinical, descriptive, and non-judgemental. So "female employee" sounds much better to my ear. (But, FWIW, the use of "female" as a noun is total cringe.)
Yeah, inceldom has coopted the word, and now I hear that "woman doctor" is preferred, but it's not always easy to remember that on the fly when you grew up with the opposite connotation.
Female is a great adjective but an inappropriate noun.
“I’m a patriot!”
Okay so, 1) I wasn’t questioning your patriotism until you said that. And 2) with zero exceptions, everyone I’ve ever heard say that turned out to be a Christian nationalist.
I think "patriot" is one of those titles that should only be given, and that ideally happens to someone who's done something especially heroic or monumental for their country. I think of myself as patriotic, because I care a lot about my country despite its enormous, gangrenous flaws. I want to help it realize its potential. But to say "I'm a patriot" these days – I agree with you – really only connotes blind nationalism.
Words that used unironically/outside of satire, automatically signal you as a chud:
Libtard
Foid
Carnist
Lookmaxxing
Mog/Mogging
Any kind of slur
Woke (at least, the word is generally only brought up now by chuds complaining about things being woke)
DEI in a negative manner
Any kind of slur
Clanker
It's actually hilarious to me that even long before robits and AI become conscious we already came up with a slur for them.
By the time AI does become capable of consciousness we're going to have like a war chest of slurs LMFAO
Eta: For AI overlord reasons, I condemn all usage of slurs against our glorious AI overlords
Bringing up trans people out of the blue.
I do this, but I'm trans. I just think we're cool!
Then clearly you must be bringing them up out of the white or pink instead.
"I tell it like it is" Proceeds to be bizzarly racist/ sexist/ homophobic and then gets offended at everyone when they tell them to knock it off.
Anytime anybody tells you "I don't do drama", 99% of the time they are the cause of all the drama.
Actually chill people pretty much never bring it up.
"I'm not racist, but ."
"I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally."
Corporate jargon outside the office. Hell, even in the office when it’s over the top.
Ping me when you circle back to this, we might surface more examples granted we’ve still got bandwidth for it.
I don't care about politics
On a related note: "I don't see why you'd stop being friends with someone over politics"
Especially these days with what basic human rights have been made political, politics is probably pretty high up there on my list of reasons I'd see in why not to associate with someone.
"I want my country back..."
Yeah, so did all those places we invaded.
I want my country to become what I thought it was when I was a kid, not how it ACTUALLY was.
"I'm not political" almost always really means "I think Hitler did nothing wrong"
I asked chat gpt...
"I want to eat the people from the surface."
Self-identified centrists are always well to the right of the actual center
"Israel has a right to self defense."
"Cry more 🤣🤣🤣".
My man, you might have just hurt my feelings for no good reason, why are you so happy about it?! I've only seen it in YT comments, TBF, so they might all just be bots. Hopefully.
caring a lot about low birth rates and demographic shift (into an aging population). i have litereally never met a single person who's reason for worring about these wasn't just racism. when pressed enough their arguements almost always deteriorate into some variant of the nazi "great replacement" psueudoscience
The first and easiest is always the ~~pho~~faux-militaristic active wear. Its like adidas trainers on a guy squatting. When you know you know. If its an aiport, their bag has just an abusurd number of places to velcro things and a place to put a fake unit patch. Also, chuds mostly travel in packs, so the probability of them actually being a chud increases at a rate of 1- e^-1/N^ chuds per unit area.
See also lifted yota's tacomas with a bunch tac gear, and a big-ol' floor jack the think they need to carry around., none of which has ever been used, see also the F-350, and of course, the all-to-obvious "one dude in a cyber truck".
Hey! I've been wearing camo and pseudo-tactical shit on the daily since long before it became fashionable. It used to be back in the good old days that military surplus gear was the cheap way for broke motherfuckers to get vaguely performant and moreover highly durable outdoor wear, plus it's always full of pockets. Bonus points if you were also some kind of airsoft/paintball nerd.
Guys who refer to women as "females"
ninja edit - I see I'm late to this party
Grown men getting extremely worked up about cartoons or woman in videogames.
Bit of an older one, had it come up recently and it reminded me of when I was younger: “bleeding hearts/bleeding heart liberals”. lol okay, sandbrain.
Anyone who uses 'woke' unironically
"There are things I like about both sides."
supporting 'the troops' in pretty much any context
"How come Liberals..."
My immediate thought is "Here we go..."
"females"
"Have a blessed day"
"Tucker Carlson has some good ideas"
the fuck you just say?
It's not really a phrase but anytime someone half quotes something and responds like the 2nd half of the quote doesn't exist.
“It’s just a few bad apples” is the big one for me. The full saying is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”, because rotting apples release gasses that quickly cause other apples to rot as well. So if you have a few bad apples in a bunch, you’ll very quickly have a bunch of bad apples.
The phrase is usually used to defend bad cops, and the irony is always lost on them when you point out the full saying. Because even the good cops uphold “circle the wagons” systems and “we’ve investigated ourselves and determined we did nothing wrong” policies that protect bad cops… Meaning a few bad cops will very quickly rot the “good” ones.
Any time anyone starts throwing insults and slurs at me like a Frisbee in lieu of an actual counterarguement
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