Goodness, look at you bringing out the fascist playbook. My identity is who I am, same as you. Denying it because of your personal beliefs is you just throwing a strop because you can. It is childish.
One’s identity can be who one is, if the “one” in question is being truthful. But it can also be who one is not, if the one in question is playing silly buggers, as of course this Saunders fella is. What he means by his “identity” in this context is his image of himself, his persona, his dream-self, his fiction. It’s emphatically not whatever biology made him. It’s also emphatically not something other people are obliged to confirm, much less act on.
On a lighter note, when did the fascist playbook become throwing a strop?
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12 responses to “Mai idenniny izz…”
maddog1129
What does “throwing a strop” even mean?
Also, he ought to know about what’s “childish.” It’s childish to play pretend. It’s beyond childish — lunacy, even — for adults to play pretend irl and then demand that everyone else must play, too.
If we could substitute the actual plans and methods of fascism with Rachel Saunders’ imagined fascist playbook, it might make the world a better place. Instead of being rounded up and incarcerated, scapegoats would only have to suffer pouting and sarcasm.
Further to #2 – I should have said “stroppy” is a UK word for pissy, snotty, fighty, irritable, etc. It’s not usually a noun but pretend-Rachel is creative.
Rob
In New Zealand, and I suspect UK and Aus, throwing a strop is slang for being publicly stroppy. As you say, argumentative bordering on tantrum but not quite is how Iād put it.
Rachel, sweet summer child that he is, is being precious and incoherent on several grounds.
Steamshovelmama
“Throwing a strop,” – an outbreak of vocal annoyance, displaying yourself overtly having a bad mood in response to something. Also “having a…” Often, as in this case, used to belittle either the show of annoyance, the cause, or both.
Recognised and reasonably common colloquialism where I am. (English Midlands). Slightly different to “stroppy” meaning someone with a tendency to get quickly argumentative and/aggressive (see “bolshy”) though both seem to originate with the word “obstreperous.”
Acolyte of Sagan
A strop (noun) is an old term for a long strip of leather. In the early days of mechanised industry it was the belt that connected pulley wheels on machines to the power source. They could run the entire length of a room, ran at high speed and were prone to snapping or jumping off the pulleys, which was dangerous for anybody close by, so when a machine threw a strop it lashed out at those in its path.
KBPlayer
“Throwing a strop” is being openly and publicly pissed off.
“Stroppy” is really quite a good word, it’s too bad it’s never made it to this part of the globe.
iknklast
AoS, so true, and my experience with other uses of a strop involves whipping of children. Brutal, unnecessary, and barbaric, but not infrequent in the early days of our ‘civilization’.
Nullius in Verba
“Strop” is still used as a verb for the final part of honing an edge, even in ‘Merica.
“Fascist” is apparently used for literally anything, as in, “I went to the fascist for a pair of fascists, but the fascists were particularly fascist today, so I only managed to get one fascist.” The meaning of this should be self-evident.
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12 responses to “Mai idenniny izz…”
What does “throwing a strop” even mean?
Also, he ought to know about what’s “childish.” It’s childish to play pretend. It’s beyond childish — lunacy, even — for adults to play pretend irl and then demand that everyone else must play, too.
Similar to being in a snit, I think, but louder.
If we could substitute the actual plans and methods of fascism with Rachel Saunders’ imagined fascist playbook, it might make the world a better place. Instead of being rounded up and incarcerated, scapegoats would only have to suffer pouting and sarcasm.
Further to #2 – I should have said “stroppy” is a UK word for pissy, snotty, fighty, irritable, etc. It’s not usually a noun but pretend-Rachel is creative.
In New Zealand, and I suspect UK and Aus, throwing a strop is slang for being publicly stroppy. As you say, argumentative bordering on tantrum but not quite is how Iād put it.
Rachel, sweet summer child that he is, is being precious and incoherent on several grounds.
“Throwing a strop,” – an outbreak of vocal annoyance, displaying yourself overtly having a bad mood in response to something. Also “having a…” Often, as in this case, used to belittle either the show of annoyance, the cause, or both.
Recognised and reasonably common colloquialism where I am. (English Midlands). Slightly different to “stroppy” meaning someone with a tendency to get quickly argumentative and/aggressive (see “bolshy”) though both seem to originate with the word “obstreperous.”
A strop (noun) is an old term for a long strip of leather. In the early days of mechanised industry it was the belt that connected pulley wheels on machines to the power source. They could run the entire length of a room, ran at high speed and were prone to snapping or jumping off the pulleys, which was dangerous for anybody close by, so when a machine threw a strop it lashed out at those in its path.
“Throwing a strop” is being openly and publicly pissed off.
“Stroppy” is really quite a good word, it’s too bad it’s never made it to this part of the globe.
AoS, so true, and my experience with other uses of a strop involves whipping of children. Brutal, unnecessary, and barbaric, but not infrequent in the early days of our ‘civilization’.
“Strop” is still used as a verb for the final part of honing an edge, even in ‘Merica.
“Fascist” is apparently used for literally anything, as in, “I went to the fascist for a pair of fascists, but the fascists were particularly fascist today, so I only managed to get one fascist.” The meaning of this should be self-evident.
Ha!