• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    A while back I was standing in line behind a few people when one of the people at the head of the line mentioned something about a “bum leg”.

    The smooth brain behind them immediately seized on the opportunity to start a super sarcastic to the point of being aggressive spiel about how “you can’t say that anymore, that’s not politically correct” and then continued his butt hurt tirade calling out “liberal snowflakes”.

    However, the grand finale and pièce de résistance of his rambling was a comment along the lines of “there’s only 2 pronouns, male and female”.

    Anyway, this comic from 1994 kinda reminded me of that hilarious but also horrific little nugget.

    • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      I have a buddy that’s older than me, today he started complaining about people walking around “glued to thier phones!”

      I told him look, cellphones have been around for twenty years. Time to get over it.

      And he said yeah, and moved on. But that kind of mindset reminds me of the written-in-stone pronoun people.