Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Good cartoon in Private Eye a while ago. Woman says to man: "I think you're gaslighting me." Man replies: "Don't you mean 'gaslighting'?"Seen it again already since I wrote that. Can't even remember the context.
Good cartoon in Private Eye a while ago. Woman says to man: "I think you're gaslighting me." Man replies: "Don't you mean 'gaslighting'?"Seen it again already since I wrote that. Can't even remember the context.
The same thing's happened with the language of "self-care" and therapy, lots of people using terms like "gaslight" and "trauma". Trump was "gaslighting" the American public.
I saw something a while back along the lines of loads of abusive people go into therapy now and just come out with a whole new vocabulary and toolkit they can use to that end.
Included in the set of people who feel that they're being excluded?I did think that story about a politician's daughter coming out as demisexual recently was kind of ridiculous. Apparently it's the term for people who are only attracted to people they have an emotional connection to, which, to me, just seems like a standard healthy relationship for anyone and not really the same as being gay or trans. She said something about how it was uncool or boring to be cis or straight in her friend group, so I can't help feeling it might be a term constructed by and for straight cis people desperate to be included.
I did think that story about a politician's daughter coming out as demisexual recently was kind of ridiculous. Apparently it's the term for people who are only attracted to people they have an emotional connection to, which, to me, just seems like a standard healthy relationship for anyone and not really the same as being gay or trans. She said something about how it was uncool or boring to be cis or straight in her friend group, so I can't help feeling it might be a term constructed by and for straight cis people desperate to be included.
That's almost certainly the most cringemaking one.it's not as bad as sapiosexuality, which sounds like eugenics with a woke label
The common notion that language and linked words are important only as a means of expression he found a little ridiculous; as if electricity were to be studied solely with the view of “wiring” to people, and all its other properties left unexplored, neglected. Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself. Here lay hidden the secret of the sensuous art of literature; it was the secret of suggestion, the art of causing delicious sensation by the use of words. In a way, therefore, literature was independent of thought; the mere English listener, if he had an ear attuned, could recognize the beauty of a splendid Latin phrase.