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>potato-head You'll need to adjust your language as the language has changed. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-can-count-to-potato https://knowyourmeme.com/me
by undersuit 4y ago
>potato-head
You'll need to adjust your language as the language has changed.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-can-count-to-potato https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-can-count-to-potato
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/acprjo/how_did_potato_become_an_insult_for_someone_whos/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/acprjo/how_did_p...
Frankly any insult that attacks intelligence in any way is going to be ableist. Attack the merits or lack thereof of the argument.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoIts true that potato head might be borderline. I suppose I prefer to make the effort and adjust my choices when someone points out my error, than make no effort and ignore feedback I am getting from others. Potato head was new to me and seemed like a good idea, and I did use it against myself. I generally will not insult anyone else's intelligence, but I do suppose that calling myself a potato head might perpetuate that kind of thing. Thanks for the suggestion!
- jessekv 4y agoTo me, git is ageist.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoThat’s fair. Where I grew up no one uses that, I just pulled it from some suggestions on Reddit. I’m not actually familiar with how it’s used.
- aflag 4y agoDoesn't fool fall in the same category?
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoI think of a fool as someone who makes a bad choice, but this isn’t the same as intelligence. Someone can be very smart and very foolish. Also a typo made me realize that “tool” is perhaps a good non ableist insult.
- kgwgk 4y agoFool, silly and goofball are even less subtle. Useless seems the epitome of ableism, but what do I know - here it’s presented as a good alternative to ableist words: https://web.augsburg.edu/english/writinglab/Avoiding_Ableist_Language.pdf https://web.augsburg.edu/english/writinglab/Avoiding_Ableist...