Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

AllForIt

I think it's about time we highlighted the more wacky WOKE notions that are popping up in the media on a weekly basis nowadays, if any of them aren't at all. I'm putting this in AH in the hope it's a more lighthearted thread rather than not.

To start off here's 3 I've come across this last week alone.

Full Stops. Apparently full stops used in text messaging and the like are offensive to young people. Too much on the passive/aggressive side.Source.

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Sky news are running a report this week that says one of the reasons black people are severely under-represented in pro swimming is because of their thick afro hair and standard swimming caps don't fit. I would have thought cutting your hair would be a solution to this problem but I suppose doing that would be discriminatory to hair.

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Multi Grammy award winner Adele has been criticised for cultural appropriation, because she posted a pic of herself on Instagram sporting an African hairdo. I guess she's not into swimming. Source.


Do add the one's you come across as they arrive. I'll just make a prediction, exclamation marks will be next !

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RobbieTheRobber

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EmmetSpiceland

Yawn.

Kylta

.(!!!).."!!!".

Your Face

Current Affairs/IMHO

Goodshape

AllForIt wrote: »

IFull Stops. Apparently full stops used in text messaging and the like are offensive to young people. Too much on the passive/aggressive side.Source.

Oh that one's not so bad. I briefly skimmed the article and I don't think it's claiming offense? Just that it can be intimidating in a text message. That's true. I like it. The intimidating full-stop is a useful tool.

"fine"

vs

"fine."

You're in the ****-house if you're reading the second option and you know it.

ILoveYourVibes

AllForIt wrote: »

I think it's about time we highlighted the more wacky WOKE notions that are popping up in the media on a weekly basis nowadays, if any of them aren't at all. I'm putting this in AH in the hope it's a more lighthearted thread rather than not.

To start off here's 3 I've come across this last week alone.

Full Stops. Apparently full stops used in text messaging and the like are offensive to young people. Too much on the passive/aggressive side.Source.

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Sky news are running a report this week that says one of the reasons black people are severely under-represented in pro swimming is because of their thick afro hair and standard swimming caps don't fit. I would have thought cutting your hair would be a solution to this problem but I suppose doing that would be discriminatory to hair.

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Multi Grammy award winner Adele has been criticised for cultural appropriation, because she posted a pic of herself on Instagram sporting an African hairdo. I guess she's not into swimming. Source.


Do add the one's you come across as they arrive. I'll just make a prediction, exclamation marks will be next !

You are more annoying that any wokism.

Go wacky yourself off for a bit.

AllForIt

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

You are more annoying that any wokism.

I don't like your vibes.

Your Face

Your Face wrote: »

Current Affairs/IMHO

No just bullsh1t as usual about being offended about other people being offended.

AllForIt

Deleted User wrote: »

Go wacky yourself off for a bit.

Can't do that anymore. It's offensive to potential people.

AllForIt

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/mumbai-traffic-light-women-intl-hnk-scli/index.html#:~:text=The%20Indian%20financial%20capital%2C%20home,the%20generic%20male%20stick%20figure.


Various countries including Mumbai as per the article linked have gone to the trouble of changing the stick figures on their traffic lights to that of a female.

The problem with that is, would that not indicate that only woman can cross and visa versa.

AllForIt

AllForIt wrote: »

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/mumbai-traffic-light-women-intl-hnk-scli/index.html#:~:text=The%20Indian%20financial%20capital%2C%20home,the%20generic%20male%20stick%20figure.


Various countries including Mumbai as per the article linked have gone to the trouble of changing the stick figures on their traffic lights to that of a female.

The problem with that is, would that not indicate that only woman can cross and visa versa.

Only in your head

Birneybau

Your Face wrote: »

Current Affairs/IMHO

We can see through his crap over there

Birneybau

AllForIt wrote: »

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/mumbai-traffic-light-women-intl-hnk-scli/index.html#:~:text=The%20Indian%20financial%20capital%2C%20home,the%20generic%20male%20stick%20figure.


Various countries including Mumbai as per the article linked have gone to the trouble of changing the stick figures on their traffic lights to that of a female.

The problem with that is, would that not indicate that only woman can cross and visa versa.

Mumbai isn't a country, galaxy brain

AllForIt

I sense a very strong acceptance of Woke ideas around there. That's fine. Won't stop me ridiculing them though.

coolbeans

AllForIt wrote: »

I think it's about time we highlighted the more wacky WOKE notions that are popping up in the media on a weekly basis nowadays, if any of them aren't at all. I'm putting this in AH in the hope it's a more lighthearted thread rather than not.

To start off here's 3 I've come across this last week alone.

Full Stops. Apparently full stops used in text messaging and the like are offensive to young people. Too much on the passive/aggressive side.Source.

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Sky news are running a report this week that says one of the reasons black people are severely under-represented in pro swimming is because of their thick afro hair and standard swimming caps don't fit. I would have thought cutting your hair would be a solution to this problem but I suppose doing that would be discriminatory to hair.

.

Multi Grammy award winner Adele has been criticised for cultural appropriation, because she posted a pic of herself on Instagram sporting an African hairdo. I guess she's not into swimming. Source.


Do add the one's you come across as they arrive. I'll just make a prediction, exclamation marks will be next !

You do realise you're the one being had in all this don't you. The vast majority of people don't give a toss about this nonsense; and those who publish this silliness are just waiting for a sucker like you to bite and then bloviate about political correctness/ crazy lefties or whatever you're having yourself. You're being played like a fiddle. A fiddle I tells you!

AllForIt

https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/04/superdrug-launch-inclusive-sanitary-products-for-people-who-menstruate-13225543/

Superdrug has launched 'inclusive' sanitary towels, removing any indication from them that they are for women. Pink packaging etc. Now they are for 'people who menstruate'.

AllForIt

AllForIt wrote: »

I sense a very strong acceptance of Woke ideas around there. That's fine. Won't stop me ridiculing them though.

That's because most people don't care and aren't easily offended or bitter by people getting a little bit ahead from where they are.

AllForIt

coolbeans wrote: »

You do realise you're the one being had in all this don't you. The vast majority of people don't give a toss about this nonsense; and those who publish this silliness are just waiting for a sucker like you to bite and then bloviate about political correctness/ crazy lefties or whatever you're having yourself. You're being played like a fiddle. A fiddle I tells you!

What you are saying is that all these Wokeism's are introduced specifically to annoy people like me specifically. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that has some truth to it.

I never said a jot about politician correctness, crazy lefties, or anything like that in this thread, all I've done is take the p*ss of all this hilarious nonsense.

So, it seems to me it is you that is the one that is annoyed that it's not having the desired effect.

Arghus

Send this crap to the other crap in CA.

Church on Tuesday

Ah here, it's a Friday night.

coolbeans

AllForIt wrote: »

I never said a jot about politician correctness, crazy lefties, or anything like that in this thread, all I've done is take the p*ss of all this hilarious nonsense.

...but u have been getting your knickers in a twist re lefties etc on other threads too. You're very, very predictable. In sum, if the shoe fits Mr Fiddle...

Geuze

Looting is good.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-defense-looting/615925/

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting

Errashareesh

Geuze wrote: »

Looting is good.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-defense-looting/615925/

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting

The fact African American businesses are being destroyed is a real dilemma for the white middleclass arseholes who claim there's a positive to it.

AllForIt

coolbeans wrote: »

...but u have been getting your knickers in a twist re lefties etc on other threads too. You're very, very predictable. In sum, if the shoe fits Mr Fiddle...

If anyone is getting their knickers in a twist it is you.

You are getting your knickers in a twist because you can't stand anyone taking the pi*s of all this nonsense. What could be more obvious.

Gremlinertia

coolbeans, AllForIt

Both of you stop with the sniping
Also, back on topic please or thread closure seems likely

Chris_Heilong

Its a good idea for a forum, these things should be criticized and laughed at. I remember last week someone had written an article saying that white people owning dogs was racist for some reason.

Gremlinertia

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Its a good idea for a forum, these things should be criticized and laughed at. I remember last week some had written an article saying that white people owning dogs was racist for some reason.

Really?. Hah i'm off to try find that!.

Gremlinertia

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Really?. Hah i'm off to try find that!.

So far only references I can find appear to be redit where most are calling it bullsh1t as in its a hoax and a load of sites for what my American friends call basement dwellers/ members of the tinfoil hat brigade.

SlowMotion321

AllForIt wrote: »

https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/04/superdrug-launch-inclusive-sanitary-products-for-people-who-menstruate-13225543/

Superdrug has launched 'inclusive' sanitary towels, removing any indication from them that they are for women. Pink packaging etc. Now they are for 'people who menstruate'.

The marketing guys must have been pissing themselves with laughter when they came up with this!

Antares35

AllForIt wrote: »

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/mumbai-traffic-light-women-intl-hnk-scli/index.html#:~:text=The%20Indian%20financial%20capital%2C%20home,the%20generic%20male%20stick%20figure.


Various countries including Mumbai as per the article linked have gone to the trouble of changing the stick figures on their traffic lights to that of a female.

The problem with that is, would that not indicate that only woman can cross and visa versa.

Also is it actually a woman just because she's wearing a dress? Cue the collective indignation and fury and warbling about how gender is a social construct. Or something.

Gremlinertia

SlowMotion321 wrote: »

The marketing guys must have been pissing themselves with laughter when they came up with this!

Funny enough, they are slow off the mark doing that, gender free sanitary items have existed for a while according to a quick google.. I imagine that in the near future laughing about this will be as frowned upon as it is now to poke fun at someone over race or ability etc. It's human nature to sometimes get nervous over change.. I'm terrible for it tbh, i still use real butter!.

TheValeyard

Antares35 wrote: »

Also is it actually a woman just because she's wearing a dress? Cue the collective indignation and fury and warbling about how gender is a social construct. Or something.

I'd be more worried as it looks like the lady in green may have snapped her leg and have difficulty crossing the road.

Sky King

I think she looks like she's busting for a piss.

tabby aspreme

Antares35 wrote: »

Also is it actually a woman just because she's wearing a dress? Cue the collective indignation and fury and warbling about how gender is a social construct. Or something.

Would you be allowed wear a dress that short in Mumbai, I'd reckon it's a coat

Sky King

I reckon its a trapezoidal sandwich board.

Fk me, but I wish I could get back to sleep!

ExMachina1000

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2006/S00108/new-zealand-first-s-disgust-at-wave-of-wokeism.htm

New Zealand doesn't endorse the woke

whisky_galore

AllForIt wrote: »

Full Stops. Apparently full stops used in text messaging and the like are offensive to young people. Too much on the passive/aggressive side.Source.

Not so much "woke" as a generation who can't use punctuation correctly, or spell in many cases.

Eduard Khil

Text speak is the devil's only friend.

Gruffalux

AllForIt wrote: »

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/mumbai-traffic-light-women-intl-hnk-scli/index.html#:~:text=The%20Indian%20financial%20capital%2C%20home,the%20generic%20male%20stick%20figure.


Various countries including Mumbai as per the article linked have gone to the trouble of changing the stick figures on their traffic lights to that of a female.

The problem with that is, would that not indicate that only woman can cross and visa versa.

The bad thing is women in India often wear saris so this is a western centric depiction of women. The good thing is men and women both wear pajama kurta which this icon looks like. So it all works out in the end

Errashareesh

AllForIt wrote: »

https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/04/superdrug-launch-inclusive-sanitary-products-for-people-who-menstruate-13225543/

Superdrug has launched 'inclusive' sanitary towels, removing any indication from them that they are for women. Pink packaging etc. Now they are for 'people who menstruate'.

Good job Superdrug. Caving in to the psychopathic mob and joining the campaign to erase aspects of biological womanhood.

Not a bit sinister.

SlowMotion321

Errashareesh wrote: »

Good job Superdrug. Caving in to the psychopathic mob and joining the campaign to erase aspects of biological womanhood.

Not a bit sinister.

They're not caving in, I guarantee to them they are simply taking advantage of a marketing opportunity and one upping their competition! Cash is king and corporate decision makers couldn't give a fcuk about anything but the bottom line!

JasonStatham

So American wannabes on here, who's the Wokeist of Twitterland today?

EmmetSpiceland

Errashareesh wrote: »

Good job Superdrug. Caving in to the psychopathic mob and joining the campaign to erase aspects of biological womanhood.

Not a bit sinister.

What’s “biologically female” about pink packaging?

EmmetSpiceland

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

What’s “biologically female” about pink packaging?

Haha. Good man Emmet. Having "your pronouns" in your sig.

Great stuff

Gregor Samsa

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

What’s “biologically female” about pink packaging?

The other thing is that if you go to the Superdrug website (or any supermarket) most of the other brands of sanitary towels don’t even have pink packaging.

I did find this quote from the article surprising:

The communications assistant for LGBTQ+ charity Mermaids, Jake Edwards, said Superdrug’s stance would make a difference. He said: ‘As a trans person who still experiences periods, I dread the days when my supplies start running low. ‘I run through a million scenarios of people staring at me, questioning me, laughing behind my back. Now I can confidently walk into a Superdrug and if anyone challenged me I could point to the packet and say “look, this is made for me”.

Has anyone - male, female or other - ever been challenged for buying sanitary towels? Does anyone really need to point at the packet to prove anything? I’m a man, and I regularly buy sanitary towels for my wife - sometimes as part of the weekly shopping, sometimes as an individual errand - and I’ve never been challenged or made feel uncomfortable doing so.

Errashareesh

"People who menstruate", "pregnant people" - it would be hilarious if it were from a comedy.

(Pink packaging or non pink packaging is obviously not the concern - my Kotex are actually in a black package, Always brand - dark blue, other Always - purple).

Gruffalux

Errashareesh wrote: »

"People who menstruate", "pregnant people" - it would be hilarious if it were from a comedy.

(Pink packaging or non pink packaging is obviously not the concern - my Kotex are actually in a black package, Always brand - dark blue, other Always - purple).

I don't know what Always have started putting in their pads but it causes savage flare ups for me on those parts that people who have a fanny have. I have gone completely to cloth - well bamboo actually. Just a handy FYI for people who menstruate! :cool:

smellyoldboot

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

The other thing is that if you go to the Superdrug website (or any supermarket) most of the other brands of sanitary towels don’t even have pink packaging.

I did find this quote from the article surprising:



Has anyone - male, female or other - ever been challenged for buying sanitary towels? Does anyone really need to point at the packet to prove anything? I’m a man, and I regularly buy sanitary towels for my wife - sometimes as part of the weekly shopping, sometimes as an individual errand - and I’ve never been challenged or made feel uncomfortable doing so.

Agree , it's absolutely bizarre logic in fairness. I would regularly on foot of verbal message/text have to pick up said sanitary items when going to a shop. No different than picking up a carton of milk. Tis a warped mind that thinks otherwise.

silverharp

Errashareesh wrote: »

"People who menstruate", "pregnant people" - it would be hilarious if it were from a comedy.

(Pink packaging or non pink packaging is obviously not the concern - my Kotex are actually in a black package, Always brand - dark blue, other Always - purple).

Thankfully the Coombe still seems to be referred to as a woman's hospital, you will know things have gone to the sh1tter if its ever referred to as a people who menstruate hospital

1990sman

hitler is creamin himself