Words/phrases that piss you off

[Nukekitten]

'It's legal!' used as an excuse for scumbag behaviour. It might be legal, but as measures of character go, 'Not so terrible that I'd be arrested for it,' is a pretty low bar.

'As you know...' then why are you telling me, rather than providing a brief reference to the thing? It's condescending.

Swearing when used as punctuation. It doesn't offend me, it bores me. Besides, if you do it all the time, I won't be able to distinguish when you're annoyed as compared to punctuating a sentence as easily. I'm one of the best swearers I know, not because I'm inventive about it but because I do it so rarely that it shocks people when I do.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

Reverse Sexism and Reverse Racism.

Whyyyyyyyyy?
I don't even know what to say when people use those two phrases.

Feminazi.
It's just a way for people to decry feminism.

Misogyny.
Seeing as 90% people using the word apply it wrongly I can barely take it seriously anymore.

 

[L. Declis]

Well, I'll try and apply it to her.

Let's take the idea that gaming is largely a male hobby (Come on...). Anita is trying to force the majority of male gamers who may be apathetic to the female minority and force them to be equal; so rather than the male game industry cater for the male audience, she wants them to cater equally to the male and female audience at a rate of 50:50 or more.

She also dislikes many very male aspects of game culture; trash talk, "guy saves the girl", "girl being kickass is co-opting the man", reliance on violence and so on. By forcing her feminist views on a large un-feminist hobby (or to be more accurate, a large apathetic audience), she is implying that there should be an equal field even if the hobby is not really equal between men and woman.

Plus, some people just don't understand the phrase and throw it around willy-nilly, see "misogyny" for the example from the other side.

You keep using the word "force" when Sarkeesian has precisely zero power to impose her will on gamers or game developers, and that undermines your entire claim. She can't force, she has no power to do so, so instead she's talking about what she wants to see. That's not cultural Marxism by any definition you've given, that's simply expressing an opinion.

So now I'm more convinced than ever that it's a made-up thing that doesn't actually exist.

Maybe it might benefit you to reanalyze your base assumptions [http://chezapocalypse.com/episodes/s4e7-gamergate/].

I said "trying to force". If she had power, she simply would.

Also, you say she has no power, but she has been invited to several large universities to spread her ideas, she been to several video game studios to help them develop their game ideas, and she has become the poster-girl for the movement.

So, that's some power.

She may be expressing an opinion, but she is also going to conferences to explain her opinion to others, which will affect a change on some of them and make the industry closer to her ideals. Would you like a "for example"? Anita has recently become very good friends with Christopher Poole a.k.a. Moot. After they publicly met, Moot has changed a lot about 4chan, including hiring more feminist mods and encouraging a more liberal atmosphere instead of the previous freedom of speech atmosphere. There is something she has changed for other people whether they liked it or not.

But if you'd rather dismiss the entire thing out of hand because of a single word I used, that is your choice. Nice conversation.

Also, I tried to load the video you sent me, but it wouldn't load due to the Great Firewall.

EDIT: No, I see where I said "force" by itself. Would like to think you'd be able to still see the point I was trying to explain.

One more thing: I tried to apply it to her. I don't think she's a cultural marxist, personally. I think the entire movement is, I just think she's a very poor academic. My base assumptions are fine, thank you very much.

 

[Angelblaze]

"No offense but,"

No, stop right there, the entirety of what you say is doomed to offend me.

'No offense' before what you are going to say tells me that you want to say whatever it is you want to say, without needing to treat me like a human being and therefore escaping the consequences of wording things in a less offensive manner, IE: being called out for being a jerk.

and also, the word 'Inclusive'

Specifically when used in a negative context referring to video games/other forms of media having gay/non-normative characters.

It implies that;
1. No one involved with the said piece of media WANTS to put in a gay/non-normative character
2. Said character(s) were not in the original piece of work.
3. That people are only creating non-normative characters begrudgingly.

And all of the above are false.

 

[Azure23]

-Agenda
Apparently means caring about things now.

-censorship
I swear to god a few hundred people on these forums don't what what this word means or how to apply it properly.

-Ending sentences in prepositions! Really just unnecessary prepositions in general.
For fucks sake people say the sentence in your head and if it would function exactly the same without an "at" at the end, DONT FUCKING SAY AT!!!
Example:
-where are you? Acceptable, good, gold star.
-where are you at? FUCK RIGHT OFF THE EDGE OF MY DICK ************

-where were we yesterday? Fine, great.
-where were we at yesterday? HHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRNNNNGG

Edit: "of" and "to" are situationally excepted, because modern English can be weird.

 

[Lilani]

I hate people who are my age or younger calling me "hun." It feels kind of condescending.

Also, a lot of common grammar errors from people who either don't read enough or don't pay attention enough: could of, should of, would of, irregardless, and the frequent bastardization of the word "literally."

ALSO, I hate how people in America use the word "liberal." Smartass morons use it as a stand-in for "rational" and hyper-conservative morons use it as a stand-in for "anybody who I disagree with." Neither really understands what it means and are just showing how idiotic they are every time they use it that way.

 

[imperialwar]

Political Correctness: nope sorry you can leave the room now thanks, it's my opinion and I will express it. If that offends you, then you can express that too. Doesn't mean I will change my opinion or the way I present it. Not everyone has to agree on everything.

The "C" word. I used to hear it so much at my former work from the indigenous population here, that I used to get down eye to eye with them and tell them it was against my religion to even hear that word. You'd be surprised how effective that was.

Can I just...

So, you're free to express anything you want, from racist to sexist to unpopular decisions, but if someone says "****", you have a problem with that?

Seems a bit contradictory.

That said,

"Swearing is the sign of a small vocabulary"

I fucking hate it when people spout this crap; for fuck's sake, swearing can be used for dealing with many shitty situations; like when you're dealing with a ****, someone is being a twat or an absolute shit, or when you're just dealing with the cum-stain of humanity.

Don't bloody act like you're the shit because you don't swear; bad vocabulary is not fucking swearing, bad vocabulary is when people say "Yeah, bruv, like, tots, yeah, I tots respect ya, blud, bruv, you know." That's fucking bad vocab, now piss off.

While I value your input into that word being an opinion, my problem lay in the AMOUNT of times I'd hear it a day.
I too understand the value of swearing in language. It wasn't until I was a bouncer that I used "fuck" as much as I do now. It's such a flexible word in that environment / work place.
A lot of things that fall under the "PC" banner have already been covered by basic manners in my opinion.

One more that popped up just now flicking through some of articles here: Is "so and so" over rated. Sorry ? When's the last time you did anything worthy of the annuls of history ? Yes, I know, it's your opinion, sigh..

 

[144_v1legacy]

Agree to disagree.

I hate that one. I bet a lot of you do too.

 

[Artaneius]

I would have to say that the word that pisses me off the most is "tryhard". Probably the absolute most dumbest word ever made in the history of gaming. Where actually being good in games and doing what it takes to be good is a "bad" thing. Sad world we live in when work and effort is considered "bad". Makes me wish that all online games except fighting games and arena shooters were dead and force people to actually have respect for those who are "tryhards".

 

[Tiamattt]

It's been said before but Weeaboo always seems to grinds my gears, especially since it's always used wrong. Preferring to hear animes in Japanese over English apparently means you're obsessed with the entire Japanese culture, or at least that's how everyone that I've seen use that dumb word seems to think. Like seriously if you're going to use a stupid sounding insult you could at least use it correctly.

 

[FPLOON]

"We're all in this together".

Given how I previously made a positive comment about High School Musical today, that phrase is now stuck in my head as well the dance that's associated with said phrase...

OT: I think my past self can explain this one for me...

"It was my destiny to [insert action here]..."

I kinda hate this worded phrase more than the "God made me do it" just on the ground of adding more questions than answers, in my opinion... like who told you that was your destiny in the first place? And, if it was God, for example, then why didn't you just say that "God told you that was your destiny"??

Another phrase that's actually slowing starting to piss me off is "I've lost/losing all faith in humanity..." mostly because the person who's usually saying the phrase isn't really helping the cause of restoring humanity's faith in themselves as a whole... It's almost a contradictory just waiting to happen afterwords...

Thanks, past me... Other than that, the word "****"... Sure, the word is used in a title to a song I like called <link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUY74IqiaWs>Inside Pikachu's ****, but I really do not feel comfortable saying that word vocally...

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

"You haven't done the research"/"You're just mis-informed"

I don't talk much. I as such, I tend to do some flippin research. I've always reserved a special place in a furnace near my heart for these phrases, so unless you're gonna supply some math pretty damn sharpish piss off.

The fact that the last two months have been followed up by "evidence" in the form of rambling, 40 minute youtube videos that are trying to kill the very concept of logic certainly hasn't helped my mood.

 

[Emanuele Ciriachi]

I hope the title is fairly self-explanatory, just share some words/phrases that piss you off. Here are mine:

-"Racial Realism"
-Feminazi
-Social Justice Warrior
-Anything that refers to people with autism in a derogatory manner
-Anything that refers to LGBT people in a derogatory manner
-PC Police
-"Cultural Marxism"

What can I say... judging from your choice words I'd say you are a member of the PC Police yourself. "Political Correctness" is pretty much the only word that pisses me off. For what it represents.

 

[Batou667]

I'm increasingly turned off by a lot of the social justice buzzwords that get thrown around, seemingly in lieu of actual discussion, logic or evidence. Just say enough of the magic words, and anybody who disagrees with you will be a troll or cyber-bully who you can condemn or ignore at your preference.

"Privilege" used as a shorthand for the liberal version of Original Sin.
"Troll" or "harasser" or "cyber-bully" used to mean "somebody who disagreed with me"
"Power dynamic", "patriarchy", "cultural norms" - all invoked in the exact same way that a few centuries ago people would be earnestly invoking the names of gods to explain away complex phenomena.
"Slur" - for some reason this one really grates. "Slur" is what I do after ten beers. If you mean "insult", say "insult"; don't use needlessly academic or prissy language to try to appear more authoritative.
"X-face". Originally just used in the context of "blackface", this has turned into yellowface, redface... I even saw "blindface" unironically used to describe a cosplayer who was dressed as a blind anime character. There's a point where this needs to stop, and we passed that point some time ago...
"X-gate". Watergate. Dianagate. Gamergate. JUST STOP.

Also, it enrages me when people (often American) just say stuff with no regard for whether it stands up to a second's grammatical scrutiny. They just out and say it and reason, "hey, they knew what I meant, no need to be pedantic". No, you idiots, you don't get to invent your own idioms, what you're saying is just incorrect. E.g.:

"I could care less"
"I got to thinking" - how does this make grammatical sense? "I got thinking" just about works. "I started thinking", that's fine. You wouldn't say "I was hungry, so I got to eating", would you?
"The hammer fell on your foot? Be lucky it wasn't your head!" - Jesus wept. Consider yourself lucky [it wasn't...], *or* be grateful [it wasn't...]. You can't just mash the two together into a bastardised pseudo-sentence.

...and so on. Rant over. (for now)

 

[Uriel_Hayabusa]

''Don't judge me.''

It strikes me as rather hypocritical. From my experience people judge others every day. Be it about things big or small.

"Privilege" used as a shorthand for the liberal version of Original Sin.

I agree with you. I'm all for making (young) people aware of how bad institutionalized racism was at certain points in history; but I don't think white people should be made to feel guilty for crimes from a very long time ago, simply because they were commited by other white people.

 

[Twintix]

It's been said before but Weeaboo always seems to grinds my gears, especially since it's always used wrong. Preferring to hear animes in Japanese over English apparently means you're obsessed with the entire Japanese culture, or at least that's how everyone that I've seen use that dumb word seems to think. Like seriously if you're going to use a stupid sounding insult you could at least use it correctly.

And sometimes, even expressing an interest in anime, manga or anything Japanese makes you a weeaboo.

You know, since liking American media means that I desperately want to be one./sarcasm

(Funny how it never applies to media from other countries, huh?)

 

[Uriel_Hayabusa]

And sometimes, even expressing an interest in anime, manga or anything Japanese makes you a weeaboo.

More often than not, ''weeaboo'' is only used to refer to those who are obnoxious about their penchant for Japanese stuff and/or those who get overly defensive someone else says they don't really care for anime.

That defensiveness is one of my biggest issues with anime-fandom. That and the fact that the line between ''I appreciate this medium'' and ''I'm using this medium as something to make myself come off as cool, different and interesting because it's niche.'' can get really blurred, especially to outsiders.

Some examples of the aforementioned defensiveness:

https://twitter.com/AdamSessler/status/525152979855224832
https://twitter.com/devincf/status/487024328064516096

And some recommended reading for not falling into the same trap:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2014-08-22/.77818
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2014-08-29/.78050

Just so you know, I'm really into anime, manga and other types of Japanese pop culture. I'd love nothing more than to introduce more people to parts of it. That said, it's never going to be liked by everyone. Some people just don't like anime, and that' fine. Other people just don't like super hero movies, others still just don't like musicals, others just don't like ballet. I could go on but you get the idea.

I will concede that certain people who don't like anime can be real dicks about it, but that's life,and it shouldn't deter anyone who does from enjoying it.

(wow, that post turned out longer than expected)

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

I hate people who are my age or younger calling me "hun." It feels kind of condescending.

Oh true? I call one of my female friends 'hun' all the time and never thought anything of it. Maybe I should stop.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Oh true? I call one of my female friends 'hun' all the time and never thought anything of it. Maybe I should stop.

What if SHE doesn't find it condescending and takes it in the spirit it is meant? You could ask her?

 

[Slitzkin]

In the context of football (soccer) the terms 'false-nine' and 'double-pivot' drives me tatas. Fucking stupid terms.