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Jan. 6th, 2011 09:22 pmSo! One of the traditions that I see occasionally is the idea that, with the new year, we shall ban particularly egregious traditions and customs from the old year. This can include terrible word choice, particularly painful pop sensations, or actions and behaviours that have just outgrown their usefulness. I am looking at you, Macarena. It's been well over a decade, no one should remember how to do you anymore.
I support this general idea, and as such, I'd like to present a short list of things that I have encountered too often in the last years, and would like to see diminished in the upcoming ones. Please do your part.
1) The phrase "man up". I totally stole this one from Liss, but she's right: it's a bad phrase, and it needs to leave the lexicon.
2) Teaching theory professors who say things to imply that learning disabilities are analogous with special needs. Yes, there is overlap, and yes, particularly severe LDs can be thought of and treated like more traditional special needs. But the implication that no mainstream student could have a learning disability is damaging to those students who won't get the help they need, insulting to the special needs students who *don't* have learning disabilities, and unhealthy to the classroom as a whole, which would benefit from a wider variety of teaching methods, to accommodate the certain wide variety of learning styles.
Learning disabilities happen. They generally mean the brain doesn't process certain information delivery systems well. Don't have a whit to do with the rest of the brain's ability to be smart and clever. For example, I can learn just about anything you want me to, so long as you don't try to give the information to me in a solely auditory fashion.
3) The concept of small-penis-as-insult. I've been guilty of this too, in the past, but I mostly got over that nonsense, oh, in high school or so.
See, penis size has very little to do with sexual satisfaction. I mean, I know I'm just a stupid prudish virgin who doesn't know what she's saying and won't at all know the joys and importance of a huge cock until she's been properly deflowered, but in all seriousness, I've encountered a fair number of boys, and of varying sizes. If they were into the whole pleasuring me thing, I generally got pleasured. Hoo-boy, did I ever get pleasured. If you know what I mean.
(I mean sex. In case that wasn't clear.)
And in my experience, size hasn't seemed to have much effect on my ability to pleasure them either. So, if you want to call a dude an ass, or insult his sexual prowess, try "lousy in bed" instead of "small dick". Because the two aren't anything close to the same thing.
3a) The idea that a huge cock is somehow an amazing thing, and if you land a guy with one, you have clearly Accomplished Something.
Especially since, unless I'm also dating him, I don't ever need to know the size of your boyfriend's package. Ever. Or, if you're the guy in question, the size of your package.
What's next, bragging that your boyfriend is tall? Fan-fucking-tastic. You must be so lucky.
4) Not apologizing for hurting marginalized people's feelings. Or, at the very least, even if you really do think you are absolutely one hundred percent right, and whoever it is is overreacting, not going and listening and learning and thinking about what you did.
5) Ke$ha. I've never heard her music (small joys) but there seems to be an awful lot of talk abotu someone who doesn't provide any actual use, as far as I can tell.
6) Any question asked by someone with access to the internet that could best be answered by the phrase "JFGI".
ETA: 6) People who don't know how to use the xkcd Tech Support Cheat Sheet and so therefore ask me stupid questions that involve me wasting *my* time solving *their* problems.
Also, people who think that I'm a COMPOOTER GEENUS! Hint: I'm not. I just understand google and the merit of pushing buttons and reading menus until it does what I want.
(See j7y's comment for further explanation of why I changed this)[/ETA]
7) People who don't know the meaning of JFGI. It _is_ the twenty-first century. Here, I'll give you a leg up: The first word is "Just". The third and forth words are "Google It".
8) Me not ruling the world. Seriously, it's been like twenty-one years. Why hasn't this happened yet?
What do you wish to have banished now that it's the far-off future of 2011?
~Sor
MOOP!
I support this general idea, and as such, I'd like to present a short list of things that I have encountered too often in the last years, and would like to see diminished in the upcoming ones. Please do your part.
1) The phrase "man up". I totally stole this one from Liss, but she's right: it's a bad phrase, and it needs to leave the lexicon.
2) Teaching theory professors who say things to imply that learning disabilities are analogous with special needs. Yes, there is overlap, and yes, particularly severe LDs can be thought of and treated like more traditional special needs. But the implication that no mainstream student could have a learning disability is damaging to those students who won't get the help they need, insulting to the special needs students who *don't* have learning disabilities, and unhealthy to the classroom as a whole, which would benefit from a wider variety of teaching methods, to accommodate the certain wide variety of learning styles.
Learning disabilities happen. They generally mean the brain doesn't process certain information delivery systems well. Don't have a whit to do with the rest of the brain's ability to be smart and clever. For example, I can learn just about anything you want me to, so long as you don't try to give the information to me in a solely auditory fashion.
3) The concept of small-penis-as-insult. I've been guilty of this too, in the past, but I mostly got over that nonsense, oh, in high school or so.
See, penis size has very little to do with sexual satisfaction. I mean, I know I'm just a stupid prudish virgin who doesn't know what she's saying and won't at all know the joys and importance of a huge cock until she's been properly deflowered, but in all seriousness, I've encountered a fair number of boys, and of varying sizes. If they were into the whole pleasuring me thing, I generally got pleasured. Hoo-boy, did I ever get pleasured. If you know what I mean.
(I mean sex. In case that wasn't clear.)
And in my experience, size hasn't seemed to have much effect on my ability to pleasure them either. So, if you want to call a dude an ass, or insult his sexual prowess, try "lousy in bed" instead of "small dick". Because the two aren't anything close to the same thing.
3a) The idea that a huge cock is somehow an amazing thing, and if you land a guy with one, you have clearly Accomplished Something.
Especially since, unless I'm also dating him, I don't ever need to know the size of your boyfriend's package. Ever. Or, if you're the guy in question, the size of your package.
What's next, bragging that your boyfriend is tall? Fan-fucking-tastic. You must be so lucky.
4) Not apologizing for hurting marginalized people's feelings. Or, at the very least, even if you really do think you are absolutely one hundred percent right, and whoever it is is overreacting, not going and listening and learning and thinking about what you did.
5) Ke$ha. I've never heard her music (small joys) but there seems to be an awful lot of talk abotu someone who doesn't provide any actual use, as far as I can tell.
ETA: 6) People who don't know how to use the xkcd Tech Support Cheat Sheet and so therefore ask me stupid questions that involve me wasting *my* time solving *their* problems.
Also, people who think that I'm a COMPOOTER GEENUS! Hint: I'm not. I just understand google and the merit of pushing buttons and reading menus until it does what I want.
(See j7y's comment for further explanation of why I changed this)[/ETA]
7) People who don't know the meaning of JFGI. It _is_ the twenty-first century. Here, I'll give you a leg up: The first word is "Just". The third and forth words are "Google It".
8) Me not ruling the world. Seriously, it's been like twenty-one years. Why hasn't this happened yet?
What do you wish to have banished now that it's the far-off future of 2011?
~Sor
MOOP!