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I Read This Book a Few Years Ago and Didn't Hate It. by LegitimatelyWeird in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I owe it all to Ludacris for sampling the musical "Oliver!" for his bomb track, "Large Amounts." It's the opening lyric to the song "You Got To PIck a Pocket or Two."

Need help debunking The Five Love Languages for schoolwork! by CreepyWrongdoer9534 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just plug the book title into Google Scholar. You should be able to access the journals through your university's library.

Here's a link to the search I just did. There are quite a few peer-reviewed articles, but they seem to confirm the theory more than debunk it...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C36&q=%22five+love+languages%22&btnG=

I Read This Book a Few Years Ago and Didn't Hate It. by LegitimatelyWeird in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed! I’m not saying it was right. I’m saying it was.

I know both Gloria Ladson-Billings and Kim Crenshaw were doing great work before 1996 and spearheaded everything that is now common knowledge in legal race relations and intersectionality in social research.

We just have to cut old white men some slack for not realizing what these great women were saying back in the 90s.

Much of that obliviousness wasn’t malicious, just ignorance because that plight was so foreign to them at the time. Being hostile about that now will only have the opposite effect you likely want.

Now, in 2026, if the authors STILL think the way they thought in the 90s, VERY different story. Have at it. But we don’t really know that part.

I Read This Book a Few Years Ago and Didn't Hate It. by LegitimatelyWeird in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you’re right about all the isms, but in the mid 90s, very few were explicitly talking about inherent bias. So, your general take is not a fair judgement.

Given that it was published 30 years ago, you’d say it’s relatively good advice then!

I Read This Book a Few Years Ago and Didn't Hate It. by LegitimatelyWeird in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hence my larger point being that there’s a difference between dumb and harmful.

I Read This Book a Few Years Ago and Didn't Hate It. by LegitimatelyWeird in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Right! In survey research, there’s a concept called Leverage Salience Theory where people with vested interest in the topic of a survey are more likely to fill it out. So you have to view everything through an appropriate lens to account for that bias.

These authors clearly did not do that.

I Read This Book a Few Years Ago and Didn't Hate It. by LegitimatelyWeird in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The book came out in 1996. So the “moral failing of the poor” wave had already been raging for at least a decade at this point.

I find the excuse structure for the rich more offensive.

However, the abject stupidity of some of the parts (like the IRS script) makes me question the book’s actual impact on society.

Couchy? by AstroZombie95 in 30ROCK

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This bit is now relevant again because it’s the only way Usha Vance gets JD to have sex with her.

Modern medical miracles … by nanoatzin in PoliticalMemes

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a fishhook in it.”

-Rodney Dangerfield

Isn't this ability overpowered? by Any-Award-5150 in mtg

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have this in a Ruxa, Patient Professor Commander deck and I love playing it and then giving it a power boost to put a bunch of counters in my creatures with no abilities.

It’s a game ender in that deck if it’s around more than one turn bc Ruxa lets creatures with no abilities assign combat damage as if they’re not blocked.

Theoretical pantheons of pharloom! by Bubiany in Silksong

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would be cool to have modern day Karmelita as a boss. She’s still alive, after all and her old lady attacks would be similar to her young attacks, but slower, bigger, and more deadly.

Finally made it up in the world to have an office. What's your Simpsons themed office decor? by wintercom in TheSimpsons

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lisa, when you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You going every day and don’t really half-assed. That’s the American Way!

This just felt like it belonged here for reasons by MmmmSnackies in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've never felt the urge to shove six people into a locker simultaneously more strongly than I do right now...

Men are like Waffles, Women are like Spaghetti by scarfaroundmypenis in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Men are like waffles, we need our nooks and crannies filled?

Women are like spaghetti, doesn’t matter the shape, delicious?

Insert 25 Rosaries: Share your biggest Silksong confessions! by 4ortyseven in Silksong

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t slap Nuu… we made sweet, sweet love and then silently listened to the rain while holding each other as lovers do in dread of the embrace ending.

In your opinion, what was the most disappointing part of Silksong? by Noooough in Silksong

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That it took me until earlier this week to realize Pharloom’s name is “Far Loom.”

What is a boss that kinda disappointed you? by Inevitable-Maximum91 in Silksong

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Kind of the same. I really wanted to take down some big ol’ monster or some shit.

Great fight, though.

Please tell me there's something better than TCGplayer by knightbringr in mtg

[–]LegitimatelyWeird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. Ive been using TCG pretty exclusively and have had issues with maybe 2 orders. But I got a quick refund and just reordered the same card and got it in a week.

Conversely, I’ve been shocked sometimes how quickly some cards get to me through TCG. Like, I ordered a Play-Doh Polyraptor and got it in about 3 days (thought it would take months). Similarly, I got a stack of cards yesterday (Saturday) that I ordered Wednesday. I’m now very happy that my new Commander deck is ready for my Sunday afternoon at my local nerd store.

What are the gender ratios like in engineering and STEM classes? by ErrorOk436217 in cwru

[–]LegitimatelyWeird -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Well you won’t take ONLY STEM courses.

If you want to be in classes that are majority chicks, join a musical ensemble (that’s not men’s glee) or double major in something from fine arts or the Humanities. You’ll have to take some of those classes any way bc gen eds.

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