I’ve seen some people getting genuinely uncomfortable at the recent discourse. Just wanted to point out there’s more than one kind of weird.
Depressed. Depressed weird
That sucks. I’m sorry to hear that. As a life long vet of the Depression Campaigns, i can relate. I don’t have any magic words that i can drop that’ll magically make things better, but i wish i did. If you don’t have someone to talk to, you can bend my ear.
Prozac (no srs SSRIs changed a lot but ymmv,)
I tried that once. It made my emotions so dead, even the depression was missed.
I know this is anecdotal, but when I was first diagnosed with depression they put me on medicine that made me devoid of feelings like your explanation. Well fast forward a few years and a new doctor. Turns out I’m bipolar, and being on the right medication has been SO helpful and such a night and day difference.
yeah you kinda want to feel something again(?)
Had to go trough several drugs before hitting the jackpot, although I’m also on other meds.
totally get it though
The different kinds of weird get lumped together in the media though
And that’s why i hope to clarify.
I bet Austin TX is having a blast with this shenanigans.
I guess when I hear people derisively calling someone gay, I just think to myself, “They mean the bad kind of gay, they’re not talking about me.”
Yeah, kinda like that gay pride image of Putin. It’s mocking him and his draconian views of gay people, not gay people themselves.
Kinda like that ONE time someone called someone gay and nothing like the billions of other times. Got it, how could I have ever been confused.
Has it occurred to you that maybe I object to that, too? It’s not okay just because it’s Putin.
Object away. That’s your prerogative. I am not so vain as to think everyone will pick up what I’m putting down.
Like, uppity gay?
No. There is not a distinction. We’ve been working for decades to make weird okay. Fuck them for throwing us under the bus.
Weird is okay! It’s them freaking out at being called weird that’s actually, well, weird.
If you’re a grown adult who isn’t getting offended by tampons or solar and aren’t absolutely obsessed with other people’s sexuality preferences, then Id say you’re in the clear.
As long as you’re not bragging about how great your daughter would be to sleep with.
I think there is disgusting/cringe weird and then there are people who are simply different.
People who aren’t trying to follow the standard template are awesome because they’re rare and they have unique experiences to add.
These guys however are all trying to follow a template, and went everyone else to follow it. And they’re trying so hard in a way that is so illogical it’s ridiculous because they want to be “alphas”
Some of both I guess.
Are you fascinated with the menstrual cycles of strangers? You want to look into the underwear of everyone before letting them into the public bathroom? You so grossed out by other people’s consensual sex practices you want to take away their civil rights? You want trans children to cower in fear, and all the children to be surrounded by guns? You want women to know their place and shut their mouths? And black people to stick to menial jobs so you can kick all the brown people out of the country?
Or are you normal weird, i.e. partly fun weird and partly sad weird?
Erm, the latter, thanks.
Love your kind of weird.
May the weirdness help you navigate the sad days and increase the buoyancy of the cheery days.
And may it repel the creepy weirdos.
That entirely depends on YOU
All I can say is I’m not a bad person (I’d like to think)
If you like the word you’re the good kind. If it offends you, well, you’re weird.
Ding ding ding! That’s how i see it too.
Weird just means unusual (with slight negative connotations already) . So to use “weird” as an unqualified insult is to say that being unusual is a negative thing in itself. Which echoes the sentiment behind things like xenophobia and such. That’s why people are uncomfortable with this line of political attack, imo.
To say “there’s good weird and bad weird” doesn’t say much more than that there are ways of being unusual that you view positively and those that you view negatively. But that’s obvious and doesn’t resolve the issue I mentioned before.
I disagree that weird automatically carries negative connotations. “Keep Austin Weird” comes to mind.
Also Weird AL or Hanson playing the song Weird.
I could see Weird Al answering the Witch of the North this question and being undeniably good. But why stop there? Great Weird!
The Great and Powerful Weird Al
Al, the Weird and Wonderful!
Yes
I suspect it’s related to USA current affairs and have no clue what it’s referring to. Any hints for us outsiders?
The Dem VP pick, Tim Walz, started referring to the Repubs as “weird,” to which they responded by having conniption fits. Terrorists, rapists, pedophiles… all manner of names have been levied against the right, but a simple schoolyard taunt has them in tears. It’s pretty interesting.
Boo Radley weird vs Bob Ewell weird
There are those who sing “I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo,” and those who claim to be “the opposite of weird.”
Imo, the neat thing about this current “weird” discourse is that only right-wingers could ever find it genuinely insulting. Any sensible, self-actualized human being who isn’t obsessing over the sex and genetalia of others is like “haha, yeah, I am kinda weird”.
But the right wing is built on the misconception that they are “normal” and everything else is a problem. They’re the only ones that could ever be bothered by being told they’re weird, because it deconstructs the very foundation of their beliefs. Without the core of “we are normal and everyone else is causing problems in our normal society” backing up their every decision to threaten others over the religon, sexuality or life choices of others, they instead have to face reality: it’s normal to be a little weird, and it’s normal for some of that weird stuff to take root and become normal. And to refuse it and obsess over it is, in its own way, kinda weird.
Exactly, exactly! To keep it going, I think their whole worldview is based on what’s “natural” and how their shitty behaviour and policies and ideas are normal and natural, because they view stereotypes about human nature (esp re sex, gender roles, race, family structures, etc) like these unshakeable institutions that they’re powerless to influence in any way.
When really it’s like, nah it hasn’t always been like this, and it will continue changing, forever.
Further, we can do the very difficult work of trying to change it in a way that benefits more of us!
Hear fuckin’ hear!
The unease doesn’t come from the word itself being a grave insult but, for example, from being bullied for being “weird”.
I just hope I’m a decent weird. I know I’m weird, because I use Lemmy, after all.
As the hatter told Alice, “we all weird here.”
I like this tale.
