“Woke”

[d4m10n]

Look harder.

It's been awhile since I've seen someone unironically exhorting wokeness, but I wasn't terribly surprised that Dr. Teetus Deletus would fire off that particular flare. Intersectionality encompasses all possible axes of oppression, after all.

 

[Darat]

The phrase was already quoted in the post d4m10n linked to. It is 'stay woke'.

In this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/health/top-surgery-transgender-teenagers.html ?

I also can't find "woke" nor "stay woke".

 

[Elaedith]

It's been awhile since I've seen someone unironically exhorting wokeness, but I wasn't terribly surprised that Dr. Teetus Deletus would fire off that particular flare. Intersectionality encompasses all possible axes of oppression, after all.

An intersection with yeeting the teets is certainly implied.

 

[theprestige]

Found it. Dead easy, once you know it's not coming up in a word search.

 

[wareyin]

Found it. Dead easy, once you know it's not coming up in a word search.

I'm going to guess that it was in an image? Which doesn't show up when you're dealing with paywalls?

Of course, the coy way d4m10n and Elaedeth are avoiding the answer does suggest that there may be a bit of misdirection to the claim.

 

[d4m10n]

For those having trouble with the paywall: https://archive.ph/oGu15

An intersection with yeeting the teets is certainly implied.

Teets are heavily oppressive to some, massively liberating to others.

Dead easy, once you know it's not coming up in a word search.

Possibly there is weak antimemetic shielding involved.

 

[Elaedith]

For those having trouble with the paywall: https://archive.ph/oGu15

Teets are heavily oppressive to some, massively liberating to others.

Possibly there is weak antimemetic involved.

I am being a bit slow today, it only just clicked that these slogans are positioned to hide where the scars would otherwise be.

 

[theprestige]

I'm going to guess that it was in an image? Which doesn't show up when you're dealing with paywalls?

Of course, the coy way d4m10n and Elaedeth are avoiding the answer does suggest that there may be a bit of misdirection to the claim.

The coy way you neglected to mention you were trying to find it through a paywall suggests there might be a bit of misdirection to your claim of not being able to find it.

Once you find it, it's pretty clear there's no misdirection from damion and Elaedith, though.

 

[wareyin]

The coy way you neglected to mention you were trying to find it through a paywall suggests there might be a bit of misdirection to your claim of not being able to find it.

Once you find it, it's pretty clear there's no misdirection from damion and Elaedith, though.

I mentioned it being behind a paywall in my first post. I didn't realize that would have been confusing to you. My apologies, I won't expect better next time.

Can anyone read the rest of the slogan in the picture? I can't zoom in on d4m10n's archive link to make it out.

 

[d4m10n]

The other slogan from the original photo reads "YEET THE TEET."

(Pretty damn woke, it you ask me.)

 

[wareyin]

The other slogan from the original photo reads "YEET THE TEET."

(Pretty damn woke, it you ask me.)

I'll have to take your word for it, because I can't make that out at all.

When you say it's woke, is it the "black little mermaid" woke, the "would vote for Obama a 3rd time" woke, the "offering plant based sausages in addition to regular sausages" woke, or some other version?


eta: silly me, I should have realized that you were stacking 2 definitions. The doctor in question is using the definition offered in the 2nd paragraph of the OP, while you're using it more like the first paragraph of the OP. Never mind, carry on.

 

[d4m10n]

Marketing mastectomy to kids strikes me as fairly woke in either sense.

 

[wareyin]

Marketing mastectomy to kids strikes me as fairly woke in either sense.

As much as I love seeing you guys import the trans talk into every single other conversation, yes. On the one hand we have a Dr. who is trying to be welcoming to trans people (2nd paragraph woke) while on the other hand we have the right wing slur against anyone who doesn't hate "the other" enough.

 

[d4m10n]

As much as I love seeing you guys import the trans talk into every single other conversation, yes.

Don't blame the messenger; you can thank Dr. Teetus Deletus for helping us understand that elective mastectomy is now part of wokeness.

ETA: To the extent that "wokeness" relies on intersectionality, no one should be surpised or upset when all the various axes of oppression come up in a thread about being woke.

 

[arthwollipot]

Empathy and decency is one thing, but being supposed to no longer say "girlfriend" or "wife" or "mom" about your own is a whole new level of stupid.

That's not what's being asked for. As usual, someone has taken a general set of guidelines and tried to apply them to a specific situation.

Look, I have specified my pronouns, right there under my avatar. You do not need to use they/them when referring to me, specifically. But if you are speaking about the general public, groups not individuals, then I think you ought to be inclusive. This is why they remove "ladies and gentlemen" from train station announcements. Because announcements are public and are referring to everybody, not a specific named individual. When referring to an individual, you do the very first thing on the slide - you ask if you're not sure, and you respect their wishes.

 

[Checkmite]

According to Damon Young at the WaPo, "woke" is now a dog-whistle for Black. Which is hilarious, because to me it's patently obvious that White liberals are actually the standard-bearers of the successor ideology.

As I have pointed out several times in this thread already, the word "woke" stopped applying to any specific ideology long ago; it is now used instead as an indiscriminate shorthand for various unrelated things conservatives don't like.

 

[wareyin]

Don't blame the messenger; you can thank Dr. Teetus Deletus for helping us understand that elective mastectomy is now part of wokeness.

ETA: To the extent that "wokeness" relies on intersectionality, no one should be surpised or upset when all the various axes of oppression come up in a thread about being woke.

The Dr. isn't posting in this thread. The Dr. certainly isn't linking to their own posts in that other thread and thus demonstrating full knowledge that their opinions on trans people belongs in the trans thread and not here, there, and everywhere else on the forum.

 

[Stout]

As I have pointed out several times in this thread already, the word "woke" stopped applying to any specific ideology long ago; it is now used instead as an indiscriminate shorthand for various unrelated things conservatives don't like.

That's one definition of it for sure however if ideas like authors shouldn't write outside their race/religion/sexual orientation/gender identity is a conservative value then...we have a hella lot of conservatives out there.

 

[bluesjnr]

Is this where we're headed

 

[d4m10n]

The Dr. certainly isn't linking to their own posts in that other thread and thus demonstrating full knowledge that their opinions on trans people belongs in the trans thread and not here, there, and everywhere else on the forum.

I don't recall posting any opinions on trans people here; possibly you've confused me with someone else.

As I have pointed out several times in this thread already, the word "woke" stopped applying to any specific ideology long ago; it is now used instead as an indiscriminate shorthand for various unrelated things conservatives don't like.

I think it is really weird that people keep handing conservatives words and phrases which they used to openly use, forcing them to come up with new words to describe the same phenomena. "Woke" and "cancel culture" come to mind here—since they both originated from AAVE—but there are plenty of others as well.