i think that getting upset about other people's generalizations by making more generalizations is hypocrisy
I called out someone on a twitter space earlier for using “his mom” as a foil for a non-technical person who might struggle to understand self custody
this is something I’ve thought about quite a bit — i wrote up some longer thoughts on the overusage of “mom” as a know-nothing tech person 6y ago
tldr: i understand why it’s something people reach for natively but im not sure it’s a good idea to keep casting implicit shade on mother’s capacity for understanding (even if in your case, it’s a true statement)
https://basicbitch.software/posts/2018-08-05-Dear-Mother.html
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i think that getting upset about other people's generalizations *and* making more generalizations is hypocrisy
you can't criticize something with the same error you are criticizing
that's what hypocrisy means
im sorry your mom is bad at tech. mine isnt 🤷
hope that clears up the “being too general” 🫡
my mother has been running an ubuntu PC for 10 years
next
you said i was being too general, now u mad im too specific 🤣
maybe we could try, oh i dont know, leaving mom out of it??
ah
and 99% of the world's population will be happy that you aren't saying things about their mothers
when they say things about their mothers, that's their business
don't try to tell them what they can say about their mothers
have you got children?