Since a lot of women have started to call their female friends “girlfriends
That was the original meaning of the word before it ever had romantic connotations.
From Wikipedia…
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest meaning of the word “girlfriend”, from 1859 on, was to designate “a female friend; esp. a woman’s close female friend”. In the late 1800s, it took on the meaning of “A female with whom a person has a romantic or sexual relationship”.
Well I get in, plug in my phone and put on my belt. That’s maybe 15 seconds. Then I turn the key and wait for the glow* plugs to warm up, so that’s another 5-10 seconds.
EVERYTHING done/said by conservative politicians is TERRIBLE. Even if this thing is okay, THEY WERE BAD THAT TIME and that’s what we’re going to talk about NOW. COMMENCE THE AIRING OF THE GRIEVANCES.
I don’t entirely disagree, but do we need to do the rage thread every time?
I think it would be more helpful for knowledgeable conservatives to stop engaging in bad faith campaigns like “Wokeism” whatever the fuck that is. Its called
Don’t be a fucking [raging] asshole, be a decent neighbor and person and all concern from every side regarding wokeism will evaporate.
Edit: also, drop the stupid “War on Christmas” horseshit. Donald Trump formally won that war, so sayeth him and Fox News. Move out, boys, that task force/cultural narrative can be safely put to bed. Fuck
But does that carry a contrived angle to it? Like when you genuinely love something someone else does or likes…
My favorite example is on Workaholics where their in therapy together and Adam’s like:
I know you’re trying to hurt my feelings right now with that but I LOVE IT and Imma say it all the time now
Maybe a bit intense but I love that idea of simply
I love it and Imma do it ALL THE TIME now
But like, positive and authentic cuz youvlove it and even in the absense of a subject to mirror, like that basketball thing how you play like nobody’s watching or something as the nexus to greatness and fullfillment/self-love
Edit: are there any legs to the mimesis keyword in the context?
“Mirroring” isn’t an insult, or necessarily manipulative. It is literally built in to us humans! Our brains have specific portions dedicated to imitation and empathy called “mirror neurons”.
These neurons help us feel what others around us are feeling. It’s why you feel sad when you see someone else being sad. Or why it can make us smile to see someone else having a great day!
The behavior of mirroring someone is a form of social bonding (“See! I’m like you!”) which is the basis of building human relationships.
Having in-jokes and picking up particular quirks of people around us probably has a special jargon to psychologists.
I simply meant mirroring is more episodic/acute as opposed to someone changing and adopting that change either in perpetuity or for something a bit longer term
Edit: but now I think about it, my examples were more like that whereas the larger idea I was reaching for was that of whatever the root concept of memetic is
Thats funny someone said it, i almost wanted to include that with my mimetic/mime thing but i wondered if memetic, too, likes to be an existent concept
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