machiabelly [she/her]

  • 1 Post
  • 65 Comments
Joined 6 years ago
cake
Cake day: November 1st, 2020

help-circle
  • I spent my childhood feeling more comfortable around adults than peers. I spent my late teens and early-mid twenties spending a lot of time with my brother and his friends, who were all 6-8 years older. I’ve become good friends with some housemates that are the same age gap but reversed. There is a certain ease with people more my age but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy mixed age friendships.

    I feel like people making so many friends online where you can cast such a heavy filter really messed with people. Like, just because they’re the wrong age for dating doesn’t mean we can be platonic. In real life its normal to hang out with different kinds of people.

    Being online emphasizes theory over praxis and it means that opinions are untested. Telling someone to touch grass is challenging them to apply experimental rigor to their hypotheses. In this essay I will…



  • You realize there is a difference between derragatory and slur right? Boomer is meant to be an insult. That doesnt mean it should be put in the same category as words like the F, N, or T slur.

    Boomer is used to point out an outdated mindset or way of thinking in an insulting way. Slurs are usually a way of drawing upon a history of oppression or pain to hurt someone. They arent comparable.

    All someone has to do to avoid being called a boomer is to not say some boomer ass shit. By comparison Fa---- and tr---- are slurs that will follow me no matter how successful I am or how insightful and well meaning my words are.