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AIBU?

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To hate some of words regularly used on Mumsnet?

115 replies

ShanahansRevenge · 09/12/2010 21:33

I get relly annoyed by people bandying things like "judgey" and "Toxic" around as if they were actual conditions!

Judgey just annoys me because it's kind of coy and littl girly...what's wrng with saying "Judgemental"??

And "Toxic"...

You know...like "Is my Mum Toxic because she has never sent me a christmas card?"

I think it's bollocks...certain words have been adopted and shaped on here for the use and comfort of the community and in the case of "toxic" it's a bit dangerous in my opinion.

People seem to want a diagnosis for other people's behaviour...so they grab words and plonk them onto other people....then in their own minds they can say "Yes...my Mum/Sis/Mil is a pain and makes me angry...but it's because she's toxic...it must be so as everyone on MN says so"

I just saw someone on a thread comment that someone elses husband was being "Passive agressive" because he had plonked a cereal box on her head as a joke. This is another thing people on here are always bandying about.

So AIBU to think there are some people who just look for the bad in others? And who really seem to thrive on labels?

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Fortheverylasttime · 11/12/2010 08:37

Totally agree with op. Many of these self help book terms are bandied around as if they are anything more than theories.

GraceAwayInAManger · 11/12/2010 09:58

If you like, I can offer some 1950s terms for the same things. Perhaps you'll find them less offensive Xmas Hmm

Here, from The Good Old Days when the only self-help book was "How To Win Friends & Influence People" and none of my teachers had read it, I bring you ...

Dumb insolence (passive aggression)
Self-important (narcissistic)
Pig-headed (ASD)
Crippled; deformed (disabled)
Insubordinate (ADHD; ODD)
Bungling oaf (dyspraxic)
Obdurate; stupid (learning disabled; dyslexic)
Mad (all PDs)
Frigidity; impotence (sexual dysfunction)
Barren (childless woman)
Spinster (unmarried woman)

... oh, yes, things were better before we had all these buzz words.

bruxeur · 11/12/2010 10:07

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE SN CHILDREN!!!

And...house!

GraceAwayInAManger · 11/12/2010 10:12
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XmascarolOfFact · 11/12/2010 12:46

It's fallen out of favour a bit recently, but "jog on" gets right on my tits. And I never quite know who it's aimed at, the OP or subsequent posters.

scottishmummy · 11/12/2010 13:04

bitchfest
shitstorm
are really common and crass

and all the quacky psuedo-psychiatry interpretations of he/she is clearly ocd/pd/controlling/narcissistic...

blah blah where did you learn that diagnostic bollocks?

Diagnosis murder

GabbyLoggon · 11/12/2010 13:10

Dont like judgey..can tolerate toxic

Even posh people say Have you had your invite?" surely invitation sounds better

scottishmummy · 11/12/2010 13:18

or squawking "leave him" about every minor spat

deaddei · 11/12/2010 13:47

OOh it was my dh descibed by someone as passive aggressive for ramming a Weetabix box on my head Smile
I would call him a twat, but hey ho.

Fortheverylasttime · 11/12/2010 16:02

I think they were joking, deaddei. I was joking when I accused you of being a troll.

Does narcisstic roughly mean the same as self-important?

deaddei · 12/12/2010 08:27
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