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I've seen some people getting genuinely uncomfortable at the recent discourse. Just wanted to point out there's more than one kind of weird.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago

There is Portlandia weird, and then there’s “I want the government to track your menstrual cycles” weird.

[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Came to say that: Keep Portland Weird Doesn't welcome MAGA-weird.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 months ago

Imo, the neat thing about this current "weird" discourse is that only right-wingers could ever find it genuinely insulting. Any sensible, self-actualized human being who isn't obsessing over the sex and genetalia of others is like "haha, yeah, I am kinda weird".

But the right wing is built on the misconception that they are "normal" and everything else is a problem. They're the only ones that could ever be bothered by being told they're weird, because it deconstructs the very foundation of their beliefs. Without the core of "we are normal and everyone else is causing problems in our normal society" backing up their every decision to threaten others over the religon, sexuality or life choices of others, they instead have to face reality: it's normal to be a little weird, and it's normal for some of that weird stuff to take root and become normal. And to refuse it and obsess over it is, in its own way, kinda weird.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 months ago

Exactly, exactly! To keep it going, I think their whole worldview is based on what's "natural" and how their shitty behaviour and policies and ideas are normal and natural, because they view stereotypes about human nature (esp re sex, gender roles, race, family structures, etc) like these unshakeable institutions that they're powerless to influence in any way.

When really it's like, nah it hasn't always been like this, and it will continue changing, forever.

Further, we can do the very difficult work of trying to change it in a way that benefits more of us!

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Hear fuckin' hear!

[-] kshade@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The unease doesn't come from the word itself being a grave insult but, for example, from being bullied for being "weird".

[-] The_Helmet_Stays_On@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 months ago
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[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago

I get to call myself weird. You don't get to call me weird.

That's how this goes.

[-] li10@feddit.uk 20 points 2 months ago

I like when people call me weird, means they’re comfortable saying it like it’s no big deal.

This is the goal for how I want people to view me tho

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I'm not calling anyone that doesn't fantasize about their daughter or fuck living room furniture weird.

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 21 points 2 months ago

I think "scary weird" is an excellent clarification.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I heard it as if you're fine being called weird, you're the good weird. If you fight being called weird, then you're weird weird.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 2 months ago

o0o0 i like that

weird²

[-] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 18 points 2 months ago

Creepy weird vs quirky weird

[-] InputZero@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Came here to say that. Quirky weird is wanting to wear a propeller hat as an adult because it's fun and no one can tell you no. Creepy weird is wanting to wear a propeller hat to predate on children. They are not the same.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Weird Al: good weird Trump: bad weird

It's not rocket science.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

If you like the word you're the good kind. If it offends you, well, you're weird.

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[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 2 months ago

I just hope I'm a decent weird. I know I'm weird, because I use Lemmy, after all.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

As the hatter told Alice, "we all weird here."

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

The different kinds of weird get lumped together in the media though

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

And that's why i hope to clarify.

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Depressed. Depressed weird

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That sucks. I'm sorry to hear that. As a life long vet of the Depression Campaigns, i can relate. I don't have any magic words that i can drop that'll magically make things better, but i wish i did. If you don't have someone to talk to, you can bend my ear.

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[-] shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago
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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

weird weird.

I'm not good, or bad, i'm a force of chaos that cannot be reckoned with, only conceptualized.

Also. what kind of discourse are we talking about?

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Bout 60/40 here

[-] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Weird just means unusual (with slight negative connotations already) . So to use "weird" as an unqualified insult is to say that being unusual is a negative thing in itself. Which echoes the sentiment behind things like xenophobia and such. That's why people are uncomfortable with this line of political attack, imo.

To say "there's good weird and bad weird" doesn't say much more than that there are ways of being unusual that you view positively and those that you view negatively. But that's obvious and doesn't resolve the issue I mentioned before.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I disagree that weird automatically carries negative connotations. "Keep Austin Weird" comes to mind.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

Also Weird AL or Hanson playing the song Weird.

[-] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 months ago

I could see Weird Al answering the Witch of the North this question and being undeniably good. But why stop there? Great Weird!

The Great and Powerful Weird Al

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Should be nice weird and creepy weird.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

More offended by people using the word "discourse" to describe the relentless, terminally-online, America-centric shit-slinging.

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Are you fascinated with the menstrual cycles of strangers? You want to look into the underwear of everyone before letting them into the public bathroom? You so grossed out by other people's consensual sex practices you want to take away their civil rights? You want trans children to cower in fear, and all the children to be surrounded by guns? You want women to know their place and shut their mouths? And black people to stick to menial jobs so you can kick all the brown people out of the country?

Or are you normal weird, i.e. partly fun weird and partly sad weird?

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[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I bet Austin is having a blast with this shenanigans.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Yes, yes I am.

[-] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago
[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 2 months ago

I suspect it's related to USA current affairs and have no clue what it's referring to. Any hints for us outsiders?

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The Dem VP pick, Tim Walz, started referring to the Repubs as "weird," to which they responded by having conniption fits. Terrorists, rapists, pedophiles... all manner of names have been levied against the right, but a simple schoolyard taunt has them in tears. It's pretty interesting.

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