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Vanessa · 2 answers · 6y

Is there a current trend that annoys you?

There are a few. I'm not a racist or a homophobe, but I don't like seeing people lose their careers over racist or homophobic remarks or other types of expression.. that should be totally separate from their jobs, and this behavior is effectively the same as eliminating free speech. Which is another trend that scares me: a lot of millennials literally don't believe in free speech.

Another trend that I think is silly is all this gender-fluidity, transgender ops, anti-gender-essentialism, etc. It's just an overreaction to the oppression of gays, bisexuals, people with gender dysphoria, etc. of the past. It's not really progress per se, it's just a current social craze. Speaking of that, using the term 'woke' bothers me because a lot of the things that one is supposed to be 'woke' to are just memes, which is why the term itself, 'woke,' is a meme, as opposed to something more grounded like 'awake.'

I also hate the new meaning of 'literally.' It's based on a really dumb take on what 'literally' means, taking the emotional connotation of it and ignoring the structural/analytical denotation. It's the essence of stupidity or anti-intellectualism.

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