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Anon is a fish (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/greentext

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

Screenshot was taken at night

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can't be the only one who wishes these screenshots were mostly in dark mode. How am I supposed to browse this sub at night while laying in bed when I should be sleeping?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fixed it for you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thank

[–] Mouselemming 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Agreed, ableism.

"Class Bully" would have been a better choice, since this is clearly fiction anyway. School classrooms don't have fabric softener. So they'd have to bring it, with malicious intent, ergo bully. And probably smart enough to hide it from the teacher.

Afaik, "bullyism," if it even exists, is laudable.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

but ehh it's 4chan what did you expect

[–] Rampsquatch 11 points 6 months ago

Psych, the class is anons home because anon was homeschooled and is also the fabric softener assassin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

You're on the greentext community...this is kind of expected.

[+] [email protected] -49 points 6 months ago (5 children)

ableism?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 months ago (4 children)

There was a conversation awhile back about how any term used to describe someone with a disability eventually becomes a slur and history tends to back that up, but I'd say 'special needs' is probably about the least offensive qualifier we have today.

For 4chan, that's like a miracle.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

The euphemism treadmill

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I did theatre in high school (a decade ago) and we performed the straight play The Boys Next Door, a story about four intellectually disabled men living together with the help of their caretaker. The original show was written circa 1988, and uses "retarded" as the word to describe the men. Obviously for a high school play, we couldn't use that.

Our director interfaced with a local group to determine what the correct terminology should be, and over the course of rehearsal, we changed the phrase from mentally challenged to intellectually challenged to intellectually disabled. It was important to us to make sure we got it right, but it was also surprising that the term changed very quickly.

Not sure what the politically correct term is nowadays, I try and avoid the R slur. Point is, this is a dumb greentext among the many I have saved; I Guess I could have picked a different one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It is called the euphemism treadmill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

special needs sounds more like an insult tbh

[–] andrew_bidlaw 21 points 6 months ago

LOOKS INSIDE 4CHAN @ ABLEISM

'Special needs kid' is a surprising lack of hate-speech for anon though. It doesn't make it okay for us since most look at it from the distance and we don't reproduce its' culture there. But observing these pieces knowing the context is a niche way of having fun.

This one doesn't lose much from omitting that part though. Seems like anon didn't come up with a worthy punchline and just dropped it here, being in a delusion that it'd make the greentext work. A fabric softener in a school setting, what?

This story could've taken another turn if a kid tried to fish it with an improvised hook and scaley anon was so bored and depressed about the kid's effort so he proceeded to make some fake bites, this becoming their daily tradition. Alone in his bowl, anon finds a weird, deadly relationship with a kid, and asks itself what would happen if it'd bite for real? Would it know when it's time to risk it, or finally go? I believe many anons questioned themselves about euthanasia and if they'd find courage to do it before they'd turn into a dead weight on their relatives' backs and not enjoying life at all, so this could've started an interesting conversation even there, while overwhelming the use of a special kid character somewhere in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You do realize this is a 4chan greentext /c/, right...?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I suppose so, but this is Anon we're talking about.

[–] Tb0n3 12 points 6 months ago

As is tradition.