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"It's becoming a connection, especially in the media, that Glass = Asshole and I think it's because much of the early community refers to themselves as "Glassho
by timr 13y ago
"It's becoming a connection, especially in the media, that Glass = Asshole and I think it's because much of the early community refers to themselves as "Glassholes"."
I think you've got the causation backwards: people do not perceive Glass users to be assholes because Glass users refer to themselves as such; Glass users refer to themselves as assholes to try to pre-empt the insult.
It's the same visceral social need that drives people to make a joke out of their own awkward behaviors. If you can get people to laugh with you, they aren't laughing at you.
- sliverstorm 13y agoPenny Arcade was the first step in that behavior; they injected at least a blush of humor into the notion of a "glasshole" early on. They may have even coined the phrase.