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What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by T0rrent01 to c/asklemmy

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Me personally? I've become much less tolerant of sexist humor. Back in the day, cracking a joke at women's expense was pretty common when I was a teen. As I've matured and become aware to the horrific extent of toxicity and bigotry pervading all tiers of our individualistic society, I've come to see how exclusionarly and objectifying that sort of 'humor' really is, and I regret it deeply.

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[–] Anubis 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

"Rule of thumb" I quit using this one after learning that it referred to a rule where you could legally beat your wife with a switch no wider than your thumb.

"Getting gyped" Learned this one is about associating gypsies with getting screwed over, so people started saying they got gyped because something bad happened.

Stuff I thought was completely innocuous but turns out has really bad connotations, so I dropped them.

[–] JGrffn 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man what the fuck, "rule of thumb" sounded like the most innocuous and random shit, why must you do this to me.

[–] omnibelt 26 points 1 year ago

Take a look at the Wikipedia page. It really is innocuous, it actually originated as a form of measurement like feet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb

The top comment is using false etymology that was propagated in the 1970s.

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