Fun Times At The Intersection

Given the nature of the scolding, one’s mind tends to wander and so I found myself entranced by the uniform of intersectional super-wokeness – the body language, the eyeroll, the tilty-head, piercings, etc.
Reproduced wholesale in order to seem radical.

Why are they always telling people to shut up?

Look at me.
LOOK AT ME!
LOOOOOOK AAAAAAAAT MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
There has got to be some more constructive way for young people wanting attention to get it. This kid is obviously motivated. That makeup/safety pins required considerable time, effort, and pain.

Neurodivergent
For thinking that my love could hold you
I’m neurodivergent for trying
And neurodivergent for crying
And I’m neurodivergent for loving you
-Patsy Cline (updated)

the bass player… someday will discover there are three strings besides E, and frets actually have a function
But, but… they have so much to teach us.

For readers who may be confused, it generally helps if you think of what we’re seeing as a status game.
It’s called My Pronouns Are More Complicated Than Yours™.

Despite it being presented as self-evident and warranting faintly exasperated eyerolls, I’m still not sure why feeling somewhat alienated from societal norms, or even from one’s own sex, would make a person adopt pseudo-pronouns suggestive of cartoon animals.
Perhaps I’m missing something.

The ‘nounself’ fad, together with the identification with an animal (like a child insisting that he’s really a dinosaur) is very suggestive.
It’s also curious how the term neurodivergent has been eagerly seized upon and is being expanded from covering, say, shades of autism or dyslexia to almost any kind of neuroticism and tedious self-involvement. Maybe it’s an attempt to sidestep responsibility and strip away the moral component of being chronically obnoxious.

Anyway, I wonder whether the rejection of pronouns in favour of nouns is symbolic…
That is a fascinating suggestion. I had only assumed (without much thought) that it was because it is much easier to use existing words in new ways than to invent and use an endlessly increasing number of pronouns. But of course these people very childish, so yours seems like a fruitful observation.

Perhaps I’m missing something
As others have pointed out, it’s for attention. Not just bog-standard attention, either, but the need to stand out among literally millions of other mediocre young people who live online.
And, on that front: mission accomplished.

Perhaps I’m missing something
Me too, as I am not at all sure what is happening in this crisis of intersectionality.

[ Fetches Stool of Shame. ]

To adapt a lyric from the illustrious Half Man Half Biscuit:
Are you neurodivergent – or are you perhaps a twat?

“Sir, pointing and laughing at purple haired land whales is not allowed”
The only name for a land whale is Moby Dirt.

Too bad about the cut, I understand Hubbard was top seed of the jerks.
Hahaha!! Landlord a drink on me for Muldoon here – I’ll fetch it over to where he is enthroned upon the Stool of Shame.
Bit o Schadenfreude here that the guy who couldn’t hack it as a male weightlifter couldn’t hack it on the world stage in the women’s competition – the only one to not complete a lift! I guess he beat out the New Zealand women though, like that McKinnon chap who beat out local women in bike races (or was that world class racing too?).
As to the original post – I’ve run out of rat’s arses to give. I’d declare my pronouns to be Highness/Excellency but that would get me blackballed faster than Gina Carano’s beep/bop/boop. Somehow their ridiculousness is to be bowed down to, but opposing ridiculousness must be canceled.

I’ll fetch it over to where he is enthroned upon the Stool of Shame.
It’s not that kind of stool. It comes in a flimsy paper bag and we tape it to his face.
Hey, I don’t make the rules.

“When I see monkeys I think of black people, and that’s mean. So…this is racially insensitive. Not me though. No xher, not me.”
-Some Twat at the University of York

Ahem…
I read and remember all of your posts, Sir David of Rickety Barge. I swear. Please tell that ex-Olympic weightlifter you’ve recently hired to stop eyeballing me.

Hey, I don’t make the rules.
Too true !
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical stool ceremony.
Now, about that invitation to the special bi-weekly meeting….

“Neurodivergent” sounds much more important than “nuts.”

Few people at 19 have many accomplishments of note. They haven’t made it on the olympic team or started a business. But ANYONE can act crazy, so they do, and the crazier the better.
As a bonus, you are not only unique, you get to bully people. hooboy, fun times!!

“Neurodivergent” sounds much more important than “nuts.”
Which reminds me of the split in the English language thanks to Willy, who brought his Frenchy words over so that we have the Saxon words and the higher-class, vaguely more intellectual-sounding Latinate words (see / perceive; break / respite; shot / injection).
This leaning toward “neurodivergent” from “crazy” seems to be of a piece.

In case anyone missed it, in other “trans”gender sports news, the US&A Women’s Kickyball team, the “Purple Haired Kneelers”, was beaten by Canada whose team included a trans called “Quinn” (pronouns what/idunno) who once again proves that men, even if they are women, have a sports advantage.
At any rate, well done Canada for taking the “Kneelers” down another peg, not that I have any hope they’ll stop their antics.

This stuff is so confusing! I can never remember if a “trans man” started out as female or male. If Wokesters insist on pestering us with this stuff, a law is needed to require them to hand out cheat sheets.
About the time I retired, a batch of people of indeterminate sex were hired. I left just in time. I’d have been totally baffled.

It is rather lucky that “Quinn the Inuit” can still (with a little work) be made to scan, flighty or otherwise.