A Boring Dystopia

9651 readers

413 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks

269

Dead Internet Theory is Correct in More Ways Than One (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Eximius to c/aboringdystopia

145 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Kill me now.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lady does sound like an older woman. Gal, woman or chick would probably work, but that's all besides the point, it's very common to use girl as a search term: biker girl, skater girl, ring girl, bikini girl, racer girl, etc. It's just dumb to automatically assume any search with "girl" means "child".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe because I'm older idk, but boy and girl make me think of children.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe because I’m older idk, but boy and girl make me think of children.

I'm so old that I don't sprinkle my comments with kid-pidgin like 'idk', and I don't equate 'girl' with 'young girl'. Bat Girl, Girl Friday, Ring Girl, "I married a girl right out of college"; it's about context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's more a problem because people don't really do it for men.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Idk, I'm 31 and my girlfriend is 27. I don't call her my woman friend or lady friend, and calling her my girlfriend doesn't really make her sound underage to me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Especially since "woman friend" and "lady friend" specifically mean "friend who is a female, no romantic entanglement" or "I'm specifically NOT using the word girlfriend here."

Which does expose kind of a scar on the language; the terms we have for unmarried romantic partners are inherently juvenile, which puts 50 year olds who are dating in the awkward position of calling each other boy and/or girl. Or you get to spit out all ten chapters of the phrase "significant other."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Easy solution:
"Hi, have you met Elaine? We fuck."