Growing up with a severe stutter (now largely gone) I was in constant pain of humilation and sought to compensate by drawing attention to my intellect. I would take every chance I could to display how smart I was, and later I hated myself for doing things like that and made a point of always choosing words for accuracy, never to impress.
Growing up with a severe stutter (now largely gone) I was in constant pain of humilation and sought to compensate by drawing attention to my intellect. I would take every chance I could to display how smart I was, and later I hated myself for doing things like that and made a point of always choosing words for accuracy, never to impress.
And as many here doubtless know, we tend to despise most in others what we despise about ourselves; Wm. F. Buckley probably had the most dog-eared thesaurus in history, and on Firing Line his eyebrows would shoot up every time he managed to work in an unfamiliar word. I hated him.
But don't think this dumb-as-hell name change is to sound smart. I think it comes from the same moronic "inclusiveness" that gives us gems like "euronormative phallocentricity" and "cisnormativity."
Idiots. Idiots. Idiots.
I will defiantly go on using the generic "he" to compensate.
My mother couldn't stand Buckley either, and always referred to his "$64,000" words. She was no dummy either, she read a lot and had a much better vocabulary than most Americans, but she wasn't a pretentious ass about it.
Growing up with a severe stutter (now largely gone) I was in constant pain of humilation and sought to compensate by drawing attention to my intellect. I would take every chance I could to display how smart I was, and later I hated myself for doing things like that and made a point of always choosing words for accuracy, never to impress.
And as many here doubtless know, we tend to despise most in others what we despise about ourselves; Wm. F. Buckley probably had the most dog-eared thesaurus in history, and on Firing Line his eyebrows would shoot up every time he managed to work in an unfamiliar word. I hated him.
But don't think this dumb-as-hell name change is to sound smart. I think it comes from the same moronic "inclusiveness" that gives us gems like "euronormative phallocentricity" and "cisnormativity."
Idiots. Idiots. Idiots.
I will defiantly go on using the generic "he" to compensate.
My mother couldn't stand Buckley either, and always referred to his "$64,000" words. She was no dummy either, she read a lot and had a much better vocabulary than most Americans, but she wasn't a pretentious ass about it.