Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[almostheathen]

Anyone over 13 that follows wrestling is a lost cause.

[Jansen]

I only watched wrestling in the 80s early 90s during the Hogan vs Randy savage years

[DocWager]

Anyone over 13 that follows wrestling is a lost cause.

Wrestling is cool. Anybody playing Nintendo over age 13 is a registered sex offender.

[Jansen]

I just wiped my ass with a paper towel

AMA

[Alpacx]

I just wiped my ass with a paper towel

AMA

Why do you hate your city's sewage system?

[DavidCroquet]

I've always been of the opinion that if you use slurs when you're wasted, they're probably already in the chamber somewhere. I tend to believe he's remorseful but I hope he does more to make amends than just words.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/haley-joel-osment-sora-kingdom-hearts-apologizes-after-using-antisemitic-slur-during-intoxicated-arrest.1168026/post-138707757

But... isn't his offense also just words?

Never a fan of these vague "make amends" demands

And to whom…the jews? Surely an Eran would never suggest such hasbara.

[Jansen]

I just wiped my ass with a paper towel

AMA

Why do you hate your city's sewage system?

Was out of TP in the bathroom and it was too late to go back in time. plus I was high and forgot to grab more before heading to the throne

[Boredfrom]

I never liked to watch wrestling. Maybe as a kid I liked the concept of it, but  .

[Jansen]

I never liked to watch wrestling. Maybe as a kid I liked the concept of it, but  .

You watch anime so you can't throw no shit mister

[Boredfrom]

I never liked to watch wrestling. Maybe as a kid I liked the concept of it, but  .

You watch anime so you can't throw no shit mister

Fair enough.

[DocWager]

With every post I suspect that Jansen is Melody.

[Potato]

Janssen is actually disabled and retarded though

[Jansen]

With every post I suspect that Jansen is Melody.

Sometimes I wish cuz I'd like that extra income 

[Jansen]

Janssen is actually disabled and retarded though

Wow so mean for like no reason 😭

Oh wait, I forgot I frequently insult nintendies and you're upset. It's okay, I won't invalidate your feelings!

[Jansen]

😭😭😭

[Jansen]

knifesosharp

[Rendle]

Leave famke janssen alone

[Taco Bell Tower]

Someone remembered the Uighurs genocide!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ps5-price-to-rise-in-europe-australia-and-new-zealand-due-to-%E2%80%9Cchallenging-economic-environment%E2%80%9D.1163349/page-18#post-138591525
TheCat who got a one day ban for this:

User Banned (1 day): Console wars, history of similar behavior

Not everyone is interested in GenocideBox with Bombpass.
Glad Europe for the most part never cared for Xbox.

brawndolicious

I really don't think you're allowed to say that.

Do you remember that thread a few years ago warning about how Nintendo, Xbox, and Sony hardware was likely being directly made with Muslim slave labor? All as part of a process of genocide/cultural cleansing that the Chinese government was putting them through.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/our-gaming-hardware-is-linked-to-slave-labour-concentration-camps-and-genocide-heres-what-to-do-about-it.386693/

It was a really, really slow moving thread compared to the more recent BDS one so I don't blame you if you don't remember. But the lesson is that if a little genocide is helping build the toy that the majority want, then you're kinda obligated to express your disapproval a little more diplomatically.

Of course no one else in that thread remembers because they didn't reply to brawndolicious.

[jooseloose]

"Bombpass"

[Jansen]

I keep my genocidebox in the closet.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rfk-jr-claims-there-are-no-adults-with-full-blown-autism.1168176/page-3#post-138719733

User Banned (1 Week): Mocking a medical condition / Ableism

Wild that a dude whose speaking voice sounds like a bunch of pebbles thrown into a Snoopy Sno-Cone Maker is out here casting stones on people with developmental disorders.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-and-el-salvadors-president-confirm-they-will-ignore-supreme-court-and-not-return-kilmar-%C3%81brego-garc%C3%ADa.1163862/page-22#post-138680487

User Banned (1 Month): Inflammatory comments towards other members

A hearty "fuck you" to everyone who baselessly suggested Kilmar was dead. I always saw it for what it was: preemptive surrender and nothing more than an attempt to absolve yourself from our collective responsibility of bringing Kilmar back home.

Thank you to Senator Van Hollen for taking action. This is the energy we should be demanding from the rest of our elected officials. Very proud to call him my Senator.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/italy-slams-door-on-people-hoping-to-claim-citizenship-through-great-grandparents.1167456/]

Well, fuck. I was just looking into this. I guess I might as well just jump in the ocean then.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/italy-slams-door-on-people-hoping-to-claim-citizenship-through-great-grandparents.1167456/#post-138677343

It really sucks. My only other option is fucking Quebec and I'm way too old to learn enough Quebecois French to live there. :|

https://www.resetera.com/threads/italy-slams-door-on-people-hoping-to-claim-citizenship-through-great-grandparents.1167456/#post-138677898

You're gonna be fine with any sort of French lol, it's also not unlivable in English while you learn French and there are many programs to help learn.

Also, I don't know your situation but if one or your parents is Canadian, you can get your canadian citizenship recognized, and whether or not they're from Québec, you have the Canadian citizenship.

My dad's family line literally traces back to one of the original founders of Quebec. My family hasn't lived there for a couple generations, though, so it's probably harder than it would've been to claim Italian citizenship through my great-grandmother, who actually came here from Italy as a two-year-old.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/italy-slams-door-on-people-hoping-to-claim-citizenship-through-great-grandparents.1167456/#post-138700236

Uh why are you locked to only one province?

Ok like that's not an option at all then. Outside of traditional immigration

Yeah. Shit sucks. I'm probably not making it through this administration alive if I can't get out of the country.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/italy-slams-door-on-people-hoping-to-claim-citizenship-through-great-grandparents.1167456/page-2#post-138702522

Why only Quebec?

It's the province closest to where my family is and the one where my ancestors are actually from.

It's all a moot point though if I have to go through normal immigration channels, because there's no way in fuck anywhere in Canada is going to want me on a work visa as someone who just mostly has an employment history working in nonprofits and doesn't even want to work in nonprofits anymore.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/italy-slams-door-on-people-hoping-to-claim-citizenship-through-great-grandparents.1167456/page-2#post-138702981

Not sure if it could be a possibility but I remember reading about job offers in France (2027 is close and the current government is not that much better that what someone like Le Pen would do anyway) who were only for native English speakers, so depending on what your job is, maybe other non English speaking countries could be also an option this way.

I work in technical/systems support (not help desk, more complicated than that) for a major national healthcare nonprofit. It's not exactly the most...mobile job type, and it's also something I desperately want to stop doing, because spending all of my time basically being an underpaid therapist for people who don't know how to use computers is dragging my mental health into the abyss.

It's a shame I can't just go to Europe or Canada and focus on my writing. That'd be far more ideal than trying to suffer another office job.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/describing-women-as-a-female-is-weird-right.1168371/page-6

A lot of ppl here are pointing out use cases to split hairs about whether it's a noun or which regional culture or subculture is "allowed" to say it this way cuz... they already do?

Nah. You're just missing the point. The thing this question should make clear to everyone is that there are a lot of instances where dehumanizing women is considered "ok" and because it is said, because as one dipshit here put it, "it feels right", people continue to do it and cyclically claim that doing it a whole lot is why it's okay.

This same logic is used to justify every slur and every dehumanizing word in our collective lexicons, thank you English. This same phenomenon occurs with the word "pussy" which should never be used to refer to a person, it's inherently debumanizing and misogynistic, but where pop culture and dipshits everywhere might get the memo about some slurs, they will happily pivot to others and do the whole routine all over again.

Every single dehumanizing word, from the N word, to the R word, has this exact same debate made about it and the people trying to make it ok, let alone ignore it, are wrong pretty much fucking always. "Female" used in a colloquial sense, as a noun, is not exclusively a slur and I am not claiming it is.

But that's the case sometimes, right? Innocuous seeming words getting coopted as cultures tee up a new round of catastrophic dehumanization. Sometimes this is even intentional, as we've seen repeatedly with words like woke, acronyms like CRT and DEI.

The bigot, the oppresser, is the one who invents the new dehumanizing code. The people who use it are on their side, never mine. I work really fucking hard to drive dehumanizing words out of my language and it's not easy but so fucking what? Cry me a river about how sometimes the best path ain't the one with the least resistance.

Amazing post

I don't bookmark many posts, but this one is going straight on the list. Thank you.

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Have any of the No voters had the balls to post in this thread and explain why?

Side eying the 150 people saying "no".

I bet none of you use "males" like that.

161 people need to have a word with themselves, bloody hell

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what happened to the poll? It was like 97% then it did a chuddive lmao

So not finding it weird makes someone a chud? What a ridiculous assertion. Depending on the context and setting, using the word female is perfectly normal. People have already pointed that out. That doesn't make someone a chud. I think people should stop letting chuds paint their perception of the world. People keep letting terms get co-opted by lunatics as if they have the right, with very little resistance in response.

Not finding it weird in the contexts provided is weird, yes. People's daily lives are constantly being subverted by bad faith actors and stuff like this can matter a lot. It feels dehumanizing and creepy, so I'd say it makes someone either a chud, or chud adjacent.

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I'm just going to call all men males from now on.

Since it's OK the other way around, apparently.

(Don't call women females)

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"I know black women who are okay with it" is just pointing out how fucked and normalized bad habits are within that 'social sphere". The only context is people being ignorant to the connotation.

Not black women who are okay with other people saying it, black women who say it themselves. Am I supposed to be the better knowing person that corrects it?

In practice, I have no issue talking to my work managers for saying the R slur in the office. But these moments don't play out like those mandated HR videos corporate jobs make you watch.

Me telling women how to refer to themselves just seems like a dick move regardless of intent. Is all I'm saying.
Another example, if I'm sitting on a train and overhear a bunch of teens talking and a really really lightskinned one you're not even sure is black one says the n word once or twice and the group is okay with it. Are people gonna keep that energy or lean back and go "well, I don't know, and they seem cool with it, so ..."

Whereas at another job, my coworker goes on a rant about Indians after some customers leave. I don't have to say anything in the moment, but I can quietly mention it to my boss next time I see her.

I think those social spheres and context matter, otherwise where's the line? I've seen people here not have colloquial understanding of things and completely get words wrong. I get where the thread is coming from, but some people are a little weirdly absolute about all of it while just thinking of it under one context. No, I don't feel comfortable labeling it a red flag to be corrected when coming from women.

Some things I just chalk up to New York City and the north is just like that. Same mindset for groups. Asian friends calling each other things I wouldn't repeat. Women calling each other the C word was a regular thing in college. I've always chalked that up to "that's between them".

I'll even point to an example where someone felt the need to correct my language. I made plans with a friend to go to the movies later and we were texting each other at work. She says, "meet downtown at 7?", I respond "sure". She read that as sarcasm and went off on me about how I don't have to go to the movies with her if I don't want to, and I was vented to my friend about it to which I said "I love her, but she's crazy" (a statement based on 7 years of experiences, including a summer we lived together which was a disaster), another coworker heard that and then went off on me about how he hates it when people call women crazy (and I know him and the way he talks about women, so this was completely performative on his part). Does me venting about my best friend in that moment translate to me calling all women crazy or portraying women as crazy to make me seem like the good guy. If I regularly talked like that, his rant would've made sense, otherwise he was clearly just repeating something someone said to him. So I don't want to assume the personality of every phrase I don't like.

The point gets a little muddled going between race and gender, but hopefully that came across well. OP is giving hyper specific examples to paint a picture and tone, I'm just broadening the use case I've come across it.

[Jansen]

[Jansen]

PlanetSmasher the whitest white dude in existence isn't going to make it y'all

[DavidCroquet]

they’re acting like a buncha females in that thread

[HaughtyFrank]

Using "females" as a noun is grammatically weird and not something I'd do but I'm not a fan of how RE instantly ascribes malice to it. 
Doesn't help that every once in a while you see women use it that way too.

Once again the "language is fluid" motherfuckers get pretty mad when it's about something they don't like

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/star-wars-zero-company-official-announce-trailer-2026-for-pc-ps5-xbox-series.1168416/page-4#post-138745728

Super surprised it's not coming until 2026 (want to avoid gta?), thought for sure it would be this year. I'm also gonna take this to mean Jedi 3 isn't coming until 2027 since a lot of big names from respawn are working on this. if Jedi 3 isn't coming until 27, than that year is prime for true chud Armageddon because intergalactic is also supposed to be release & we all know how much they hate Disney Star Wars & naughty dog, so get some popcorn ready because it's gonna be quite the fucking meltdown.

Call me weird, but when I hear about a game that interests me, I’m more worried about how it will turn out, and not about how random online dipshits are gonna react to it

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-admin-now-says-might-not-be-possible-to-end-russias-war-on-ukraine.1168119/#post-138710781

They can fuck off with that. Not just Putin and the elites, but the Russian population at large needs to be treated coldly and with disdain until they're repentant for the bloodshed and misery they've inflicted.