I say, I say, you need to seize the means of production, boy.
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I started with a Bernie Mac in Life voice but now it sounds like Farmer Fran in Waterboy.
You gotta get some foghorn leghorn in there to make it really work :)
Has been stuck in my head for 10mins. Just using boy with everything. Let get the door for you, I say boy.
It does get stuck in there. Just don't make the mistake of going out in public until it fades lol.
I had an NPC during a table top rpg session that was my excuse to do my foghorn leghorn voice. Spent all afternoon doing that voice, and couldn't stop when I made a beverage and snack run.
I already have a southern accent (technically a mountain accent, but that's quibbling), so hamming it up can get absurd lol
It's always demeaning. Calling a full-grown man of any race "boy" is belittling them. Yes, there's a special racist association, but it's been used as much on white men. The female equivalent might be "little girl."
"What do you think you're doing, little girl?"
It might have the same effect as simply "girl" if said the right way, but "girl" has been more normalized and sexualized, so it's a little different.
Anyway, the terms are belittling, and therefore demeaning, regardless of race. The point of using them is to position yourself over that person, as a parent over a child; it's shorthand for saying they are beneath you.
Yeah, I thought this was common knowledge. Growing up mixed in the southeast (Tenn, Georgia,SC and NC areas), it was used daily to get my attention.
I think most non-Southerners' exposure to it is in media, where it's almost always racist in context. There's a surprising amount of subtly in Southern social interactions that I think it's missing from most of the US. Sure, Midwesterners are known for raising passive-aggressiveness to an art form, but you recognize it no matter where you're from.
The subtly in social interactions in the South are truly exceptional, hard to get a handle on, and unmatched anywhere else in the US - IMHO. Southerners have as many ways of being condescending as Eskimos have words for snow.
Is that phrase still acceptable, or is the Eskimo/snow comment now not PC? Is it still OK to use the term "Eskimo?" If the Eskimo thing is offensive, I sincerely apologize. An alternative would be "as North-westerners have words for rain," but I don't know if that's as widely understood an idiom.
That's why my main point still stands. You know where someone stands the way they say it. I could greet you or disrespect you, all depends in my tone.
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They need a "follow accounts" button here. Like if a reporter used [email protected] you could just follow the reporter.
They need a "follow accounts" button here. Like if a reporter used
Thank you!
And: dude! I have totally thought the same thing! It's so weird that Mastodon has follow-accounts, but no communities; Lemmy has join-communities but no follow-accounts; and they're both ActivityPub. You'd think that would be a no-brainer feature, right?
Maybe someone will cook it up. Wish I had the know how to do it.
Yeah, it'd have to be a Lemmy design change, and then all of the many clients would have to implement it... momentum is a powerful force in the software world, and difficult and dangerous to overcome. Look at the fiasco of Python 3; that was a cock-up of epic proportions. Lemmy's got enough users and clients now that changes have to be made extremely carefully.
I laughed when I read it, and I read the examples in the right accent, but I really don't see how it makes a difference.
I want none of that pineapple on my pizza, boy!
See, doesn't sound right. That might be racist.
This boy here is short I say short -- them jokes is going right over his head
it doesn't work, boy!
The workers should own the means of production, boy!
Esp when speaking to a boomer... Watch that meltdown hehe
"... that meltdown, boy."
You're doing it, I say, you're doing it wrong, boy.
Punish me harder, daddy!
Kyle uses "son" a lot. Makes me chuckle.