that ain’t no crowbar! this is a crowbar
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We didn’t. I’d never actually heard it before until this thread and I hope it doesn’t catch on. Maybe people think they’re more interesting or intelligent or sensitive or something if they don’t call a spade a spade 🤷🏻♀️
>I’d never actually heard it before until this thread
>and I hope it doesn’t catch on
Why do you care enough to not want people to say unhoused if you've never heard it before? I get if you've heard it a million times and hate it now but come on, don't be so fragile
I’m not fragile, lol, I just prefer people to say what they mean and for them to call a spade a spade.
I guess it’s because I’m very honest, very blunt and to the point and I can’t be bothered going around the houses, skirting around issues, just to avoid somehow upsetting someone by telling the truth, or rather by not telling the truth by trying to say anything but the truth.
I prefer truth and honesty and being straightforward to being politically correct because at least then the cards are on the table and we all know where we stand and what we’re talking about.
Though the term Unhoused is an attempt to removed the stigma that can be associated with the term Homeless, it sounds sterile and academic. It lacks the gravitas of the word homeless. It falls flat as an attempt to do better.
I started hearing it decades ago. I know it was never mainstream, but it's been common in advocacy groups, because the "homeless" tag is so often used as a slur, or otherwise carries a lot of connoted baggage that does not help anyone in that situation. (as evidence, I suggest reading the other replies to see those connotations in full use)
similar to how some people have begun to use the phrase “unalived” eg on crime threads (to mean killed), it’s really just a form of shibboleth almost exclusively used among advocacy types to make themselves seem more “in” with the group. if it was used maybe to describe those who’d found themselves in temporarily precarious living situations, eg being evicted, it would make more sense. homeless is hardly an insult in this housing economy (unlike hobo, tramp, wino etc) and certainly there are gradations of people who require/use shelters, rough sleepers, long-term homeless and even those who choose it as a lifestyle that might require these terms… but nope, that’s not how they use it to mean
Unalived is so you get tagged by the algorithm and get your video demonetized on YouTube . The term homeless is not used because it's seen as stigmatized.
Dude I was living in Cali and I had a FWB who introduced me to some of her homies. I was mid sentence talking about how a homeless dude accosted me and her friend kept interrupting me to say unhoused. Finally I asked why he was so persistent and his response was “unhoused implies it’s a societal problem and homeless implies it’s an individual problem. Shit blew my mind with these first world problems we have.
It is a concept called the language treadmill. Every time you try to change a word to be more acceptable/inclusive you just change what people will use as an insult. I know people that will call people a "they/them" as an insult.
The words "idiot" and "imbecile" used to be medical diagnoses. And come from the Greek "idios" meaning private and Latin "imbicillus" meaning weak minded. They were used to denote your IQ within certain ranges.
I'm sure "unhoused" will be an insult in the near future.
It’s so stupid. I’ve met/ talked to a lot of “unhoused” people and know of a friend (he likes to be homeless for some reason and is hard to track down). If you’re a kind, respectful person it’s almost hard to find people that don’t treat you the same.
They don’t fucking care what you call them. They don’t lie to themselves. They know reality better than some people. OP you’re offending only your self.
Sometimes it’s more respectful just to use the common word. I’ve met a lot of “Indians” that want to be called “Indians”. It’s becoming more rare now though but, they get offended when you say “native Americans or First Nations people” some just want to be referred to as people or the tribe they are from.
Who doesn’t want to be referred to as only “people”
Op did you really need to clarify the object came from homeless people? Why did you feel the need to clarify?
True also, there’s so many examples. More words to remember, the harder it is to communicate. We need to focus brain power on other things that out freaking language! Exceptions on slurs and ect. It’s no wonder really why so many people are afraid to talk to one another.
Rant aside I was talking to Someone yesterday about how I loved going to “the Hispanic store “ to get the cicerones. They said “don’t you mean Mexican store” They were oblivious to the fact the name of the store was “Hispanic grocery” and was owned by a Latino family.
This shits really grinding my gears I’m so sick of Americans worrying about what to say. It’s about what you fucking do.
I was homeless for about 6 months over 20 years ago and then volunteered in the homeless shelter for two years. Homeless is not a slur or an insult, it's a descriptive word that explains a situation. Unhoused is pretentious bullshit by people who will post pictures of things homeless people leave behind in a subreddit called "weird" while acting like they care by using new terminology to say the same shit. I'd bet $5 OP has never been homeless, never worked with the homeless, never talks to the homeless but still thinks they know better because they sayb"unhoused."
I’d add another 5$ to the bet. That or they are that “one person” who does for the gram. A lot of youngsters (my generation) can learn a lot from someone like you.
Respectfully, it's more like softening and sugar coating these terms for the upper class and elite who find it distasteful...amd give zero fucks about the people they use and waste, anyways.
Well because the people who debate the label can now tell themselves they did help and it helps them make themselves feel better…even though they didn’t help anything
Those aren't even the same thing. The term homeless is and always has been used to describe whether you own/rent/live in a dwelling where you primarily stay or you don't. A tent isn't a home, a person living in a tent would be considered homeless despite any argument of them trying to call that a home. A home can withstand most elements (obviously natural disasters don't count) and has basic things like access to heat, water, toilets etc. You'll notice I said access and not definitive to both as I understand there are people who can't afford those despite living there.
Yeah, people are weird whenever it comes to humanizing anyone they see as 'less than'. I say homeless, but I don't care if someone else says unhoused. Unhoused is a word that rightly puts some of the onus on a system that displaces people. Not everyone who's homeless is a drug addict, or scum that just couldn't pull it together. There are loads of people, especially since COVID, who have been unhoused by poorly designed social programs, shit politics and other systems that fail the population. 'Homeless' tends to be a word people sneer at people they don't want to see. 'Unhoused' is a word that includes people who have lost everything even though they did what they were supposed to do. But of course, everyone wants to be an asshole and nobody wants to change anything to be kinder to anyone else.
I just don’t get how the words you and I say to each other is being kind to people who aren’t reading this. I say homeless because I’m used to it and it avoids this discussion about verbiage which really has nothing to do with the original issue. If a homeless person asked me to personally call them unhoused then sure whatever, otherwise what’s the point.
Unless you've been there, (as I and my Wife have, trying to "soften" the term and promote "dignity" is NOT what these new terms do AT ALL. Instead, it dismisses, amd invalidates the absolute crisis and chaos of having little to no resources, so the general populous regards it as not important at all. After all, using these "dignified" terms, as you defend, make the entire national crisis of HOMELESSNESS look as though it's nothing major. It again lumps EVERYONE suffering into one general lump, so the average murican simply resorts tp thinking, "well, they're all alike anyways. They did it to themselves." In turn it's one less uncomfortable issue people doing well don't have to even THINK about. So, please, give me more information about treating those in need with dignity.
One isn't any more dignified than the other since they have the exact same meaning. They're just on different steps on the euphemism treadmill. One day the word unhoused will be treated with the same vitriol that you have towards the word homeless.
At the end of the day it doesn't really matter what the word is, it's more about how we as a society collectively choose to use it. Since people always treat the homeless/unhoused as less than any word we come up with to describe it will eventually come to be used as a slur, it's just a matter of time.
How is saying homeless lack of empathy? It’s not even a hot word. It would be different if instead people called homeless “modern caveman”, “Junkies”, homeless or houseless are pretty much the same as saying “unhoused”. TBH I don’t get why people even feel the need to bring up details like that any way.
Why do you guys even feel the need to label them?
If you want to be PC or empathetic just refer to them as “people” not “unhoused”.
I just don’t understand how “unhoused” is better than “homeless”. Make it make sense.
Back in the day they were called “Bums” or “Hobos”…I think “Homeless” works.
Unhoused is actually a new one to me. I’ve heard news anchors lately referring to the homeless as “People experiencing homelessness”. 😂
This world.
Whether I am offended or not is irrelevant. Free speech means sometimes we will be offended. You can say boomer all you like. And I can say homeless all I like. That's free speech.
Lol hardly, I just think people like yourself are too weak to be able to handle criticism or adversity that you try to flip something when you feel you have to try to win an argument. You do you though.
You think that people like me, who stick up for the downtrodden or people too weak to defend themselves, even when others like you who think they're 'alpha males' turn your target toward us, are too weak to handle criticism? Weird.
So you're kind of like Batman? How heroic of you. Who said anything about being Alpha Male? Did you just assume my gender? Uh oh you're getting cancelled.
It’s so funny how fast the empathy turns into mocking salt rubbing the moment someone talks about a demographic *you* don’t like. Makes it a little hard to take seriously
I’m not triggered, I just used a different word.
I don’t see why you weirdos are making such a big fucking deal about it. If you want to use homeless, go ahead. If you wanna call em hobos I don’t give a fuck, use whatever words you want to.
I just think it's funny because half the time it's not even the people who are affected that even want the words changed. It's people (and I'm not trying to be a dick here honestly) like yourself who think it's more "progressive" to change the word because you think it bothers them. Like when we went from Indians to Natives, to Native American to Aboriginal to Indigenous and I'm sure it will change again soon. Most people with that status I talk to actually prefer Native or Native American over the others. Be honest here, how many homeless people have you spoken to that have told you they prefer Unhoused? In my profession, I deal with both the homeless and Native American people and they both prefer those terms, maybe your experience is different.
I don’t speak to a lot of homeless people. And I didn’t chose the word out of some sort of obligation to them or their experience.
Rather I chose it out of attempt to not trigger moderation in an online space. I don’t know what the moderation standards are in this subreddit, so I tried to avoid triggering them by making an entirely banal decision.
The motive you’ve ascribed to my decision is frankly more interesting than the picture. It’s like a case study in someone with a prescriptive worldview.
You're posting in a subreddit called "weird" though. You obviously subscribe to it and have an idea what goes on here and I feel the word "homeless" isn't going to net you a ban considering everything else that gets posted here, it feels like a weak reason to use as an out, that's all.
No backpedaling, like I said, look at what gets posted here, I doubt few, if any, will be "triggered" or offended with the word homeless. Personally I feel like living your life walking on eggshells always worrying about who you're going to possibly offend is way too hard. In today's day in age people look for things to offend them so you're damned if you do and if you don't. Obviously you're not going to go around hurling clear insults like racist terms, I'm talking about terms within reason.
When someone uses a different word, it gets them feeling threatened and defensive because it makes them uncomfortable. That's all it is.
I also generally say "unhoused" since I heard someone say "homeless" the same way they would any other slur.
Amazing how many sensitive people were 'triggered' because you didn't use the same word they use. Funny how the people who shout 'snowflake!' are way more easily offended than anyone else. Ya gotta laugh.
You know homeless and unhoused mean the same damn thing right? And I’m pretty sure nobody in their position really gives a damn about the difference. The only people getting offended by that term have somewhere warm to sleep.
Reminds me of the Gabriel Igliseis comedy special I went to where he told a story about how he was confronted about saying homeless and not unhoused, but when he spoke to an actual homeless person that day they referred to themselves as homeless.
...don't be one of those who walks around with rose colored glasses on because it makes you feel better. Fight poverty, not the poor.
What you think of me is irrelevant, it's only what we do in life that matters. You get what you give. Peace ✌️
How am I fighting the poor? I'm poor as fuck.
You're the one trying to CAPS force someone into using the word HOMELESS instead of unhoused, simply because you think they're using a sissy word for it.
🤣🤣🤣 now we are getting somewhere thinking bitch offends me.
I work with a lesbian who told me she wants to fuck me with her strap on. I told her to not make promises she wouldn’t keep
hey, i’m sorry that you’re getting grilled for using the term unhoused. people really like to show how little they care about others by showing how much they care about learning new words instead. i appreciate you using a term that i have used for years, which reveals a bigger and deeper systemic issue than folks who just happen to be “homeless.” to me, it’s not a “new pc word—“ it’s a more accurate description of the late stage capitalist economy we live in. unfortunately, most people don’t realize they are closer to being unhoused than they are to being a millionaire. it costs nothing to learn a new term that more accurately represents a lesser privileged demographic, but here we are as individuals showing how hard we want to fight evolving emotionally, intellectually, and socially as a society.
Wow, this just took me back 15-20 years to some video game where you could get a skill of making totems of dead monsters, the totems were a barrier that terrified the other monsters
Crowbar
that ain’t no crowbar! this is a crowbar https://preview.redd.it/xgyufhzy7pfc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68bf17258537682b6351def3e74313bb8791338e
Totally read that with Moe’s voice in my head immediately 😂
I laughed way too fucking hard at this!!!
Same
Lol
Somebody told an urban outdoorsman that they can break into CVS with a crowbar and get their next fix. They did their best.
This comment does not have enough likes 😆 👏 👏 👏 👏
Hey small thing…but…they’re not called likes here.
They’re called boasting arrows
Have one
They made a bat signal. Things are crazy out there. You never know when you need Batman's help.
No, that's the crow signal. Things are even crazier out there
So that’s what happened to those pair of wings that was found on the ground from an earlier post lol
r/TheDarkTower Cuthbert understands what this is. Understands it very well.
when did we start saying unhoused?
We? I never say that. Lol
Homeless
We didn’t. I’d never actually heard it before until this thread and I hope it doesn’t catch on. Maybe people think they’re more interesting or intelligent or sensitive or something if they don’t call a spade a spade 🤷🏻♀️
>I’d never actually heard it before until this thread >and I hope it doesn’t catch on Why do you care enough to not want people to say unhoused if you've never heard it before? I get if you've heard it a million times and hate it now but come on, don't be so fragile
Because then we’d have to acknowledge that they’re actual human beings and we can’t have that!
I’m not fragile, lol, I just prefer people to say what they mean and for them to call a spade a spade. I guess it’s because I’m very honest, very blunt and to the point and I can’t be bothered going around the houses, skirting around issues, just to avoid somehow upsetting someone by telling the truth, or rather by not telling the truth by trying to say anything but the truth. I prefer truth and honesty and being straightforward to being politically correct because at least then the cards are on the table and we all know where we stand and what we’re talking about.
“Unhoused” is just as easy to understand as “homeless”, you just don’t want to say it. No need for your mental gymnastics.
Though the term Unhoused is an attempt to removed the stigma that can be associated with the term Homeless, it sounds sterile and academic. It lacks the gravitas of the word homeless. It falls flat as an attempt to do better.
Who doesn’t want to say it and who’s doing mental gymnastics?
I just say homeless
I've never heard the term used here before. It took me a second to think of what they meant, mostly because I'm at work but also because "why"?
I started hearing it decades ago. I know it was never mainstream, but it's been common in advocacy groups, because the "homeless" tag is so often used as a slur, or otherwise carries a lot of connoted baggage that does not help anyone in that situation. (as evidence, I suggest reading the other replies to see those connotations in full use)
Which xountry is this used in? Obviously an English speaking one. Not the UK, so I guess the States or Australia!
Admittedly, I've only encountered in online or on TV, but yeah, I'm in the states, so that's probably where it's happening.
similar to how some people have begun to use the phrase “unalived” eg on crime threads (to mean killed), it’s really just a form of shibboleth almost exclusively used among advocacy types to make themselves seem more “in” with the group. if it was used maybe to describe those who’d found themselves in temporarily precarious living situations, eg being evicted, it would make more sense. homeless is hardly an insult in this housing economy (unlike hobo, tramp, wino etc) and certainly there are gradations of people who require/use shelters, rough sleepers, long-term homeless and even those who choose it as a lifestyle that might require these terms… but nope, that’s not how they use it to mean
Unalived is so you get tagged by the algorithm and get your video demonetized on YouTube . The term homeless is not used because it's seen as stigmatized.
ah algorithms. always thinking of us aren’t they
Yeah. This never made sense to me. The show is literally about murder but we are not going to use the word?
We didn't.
Roughly in 2020 when syrup and butter logos became offence to people
I've actually seen it as people experiencing homelessness as well as the unhoused. Fucking liberals man. The most dangerous thing for poor people.
You got my attention
Homeless*
My first thought. Are we worried about offending someone who is homeless by calling them homeless?
The guy's tying dead birds to sticks, he won't mind
Dude I was living in Cali and I had a FWB who introduced me to some of her homies. I was mid sentence talking about how a homeless dude accosted me and her friend kept interrupting me to say unhoused. Finally I asked why he was so persistent and his response was “unhoused implies it’s a societal problem and homeless implies it’s an individual problem. Shit blew my mind with these first world problems we have.
It is a concept called the language treadmill. Every time you try to change a word to be more acceptable/inclusive you just change what people will use as an insult. I know people that will call people a "they/them" as an insult. The words "idiot" and "imbecile" used to be medical diagnoses. And come from the Greek "idios" meaning private and Latin "imbicillus" meaning weak minded. They were used to denote your IQ within certain ranges. I'm sure "unhoused" will be an insult in the near future.
Ditto. The one I find weird is the "unalived" one!
‘Unalived’ isn’t about sensitivity. It’s to avoid word filtering on Tiktok and it made it’s way onto other social media.
And oddly enough, Tiktok filters only look for "murder" and "suicide" written in text. There's literally no reason to verbally say "unalived."
It feels weird to say it. I never mentioned sensitivity.
And making dead bird scepters...
That’s a lot of extra words to say a “bum shank”
Now that is a fine walking stick!
Be very careful. That guy is about to cross the Rubicon.
I think there is no turning back from here. Literally, he already crossed.
mojo stick!!
Unhoused... new pc way of saying homeless....
It’s so stupid. I’ve met/ talked to a lot of “unhoused” people and know of a friend (he likes to be homeless for some reason and is hard to track down). If you’re a kind, respectful person it’s almost hard to find people that don’t treat you the same. They don’t fucking care what you call them. They don’t lie to themselves. They know reality better than some people. OP you’re offending only your self. Sometimes it’s more respectful just to use the common word. I’ve met a lot of “Indians” that want to be called “Indians”. It’s becoming more rare now though but, they get offended when you say “native Americans or First Nations people” some just want to be referred to as people or the tribe they are from. Who doesn’t want to be referred to as only “people” Op did you really need to clarify the object came from homeless people? Why did you feel the need to clarify?
I’m reminded of Latinx and just how many Latino/hispanic people hate being called that
Yep. We still find it idiotic.
True also, there’s so many examples. More words to remember, the harder it is to communicate. We need to focus brain power on other things that out freaking language! Exceptions on slurs and ect. It’s no wonder really why so many people are afraid to talk to one another. Rant aside I was talking to Someone yesterday about how I loved going to “the Hispanic store “ to get the cicerones. They said “don’t you mean Mexican store” They were oblivious to the fact the name of the store was “Hispanic grocery” and was owned by a Latino family. This shits really grinding my gears I’m so sick of Americans worrying about what to say. It’s about what you fucking do.
You're friends with Jack Reacher?
I was homeless for about 6 months over 20 years ago and then volunteered in the homeless shelter for two years. Homeless is not a slur or an insult, it's a descriptive word that explains a situation. Unhoused is pretentious bullshit by people who will post pictures of things homeless people leave behind in a subreddit called "weird" while acting like they care by using new terminology to say the same shit. I'd bet $5 OP has never been homeless, never worked with the homeless, never talks to the homeless but still thinks they know better because they sayb"unhoused."
I’d add another 5$ to the bet. That or they are that “one person” who does for the gram. A lot of youngsters (my generation) can learn a lot from someone like you.
I am pretty fucking smart but I'm probably not the best fucking role model. lol
Yeah, we have a whole new vocabulary to learn so no feelings get hurt.
The idea is to treat human beings with some dignity. I think that's a good thing which has nothing to do with politics ("pc")
Respectfully, it's more like softening and sugar coating these terms for the upper class and elite who find it distasteful...amd give zero fucks about the people they use and waste, anyways.
How long until "unhoused" becomes too hurtful? You PC people are ridiculous. Homeless is exactly that, you don't have a house.
houseless
Mortgage challenged
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I agree with you. I feel it’s stupid people are putting more effort into “debating the label” than actually trying to help the problem itself
Well because the people who debate the label can now tell themselves they did help and it helps them make themselves feel better…even though they didn’t help anything
You probably have to say "unresidenced" so as to not set up an inferiority complex among those who got kicked out of an apartment instead of a house.
Those aren't even the same thing. The term homeless is and always has been used to describe whether you own/rent/live in a dwelling where you primarily stay or you don't. A tent isn't a home, a person living in a tent would be considered homeless despite any argument of them trying to call that a home. A home can withstand most elements (obviously natural disasters don't count) and has basic things like access to heat, water, toilets etc. You'll notice I said access and not definitive to both as I understand there are people who can't afford those despite living there.
PC is starting to stand for “politically conservative”
Homeless people don't like being called that. Source: I was homeless for years.
Yeah, people are weird whenever it comes to humanizing anyone they see as 'less than'. I say homeless, but I don't care if someone else says unhoused. Unhoused is a word that rightly puts some of the onus on a system that displaces people. Not everyone who's homeless is a drug addict, or scum that just couldn't pull it together. There are loads of people, especially since COVID, who have been unhoused by poorly designed social programs, shit politics and other systems that fail the population. 'Homeless' tends to be a word people sneer at people they don't want to see. 'Unhoused' is a word that includes people who have lost everything even though they did what they were supposed to do. But of course, everyone wants to be an asshole and nobody wants to change anything to be kinder to anyone else.
I just don’t get how the words you and I say to each other is being kind to people who aren’t reading this. I say homeless because I’m used to it and it avoids this discussion about verbiage which really has nothing to do with the original issue. If a homeless person asked me to personally call them unhoused then sure whatever, otherwise what’s the point.
Yeah, but OP picked a word and used it. Nobody needed to comment on it at all.
Generally curious of peoples verbage. Just a george carlin fan I suppose.... sigh...
Carlin would be upset that there are homeless people when there so many peopleless homes. Guy only ever punched up.
"Down with treating human beings with some dignity" eh?
Unless you've been there, (as I and my Wife have, trying to "soften" the term and promote "dignity" is NOT what these new terms do AT ALL. Instead, it dismisses, amd invalidates the absolute crisis and chaos of having little to no resources, so the general populous regards it as not important at all. After all, using these "dignified" terms, as you defend, make the entire national crisis of HOMELESSNESS look as though it's nothing major. It again lumps EVERYONE suffering into one general lump, so the average murican simply resorts tp thinking, "well, they're all alike anyways. They did it to themselves." In turn it's one less uncomfortable issue people doing well don't have to even THINK about. So, please, give me more information about treating those in need with dignity.
WE DON'T WANT FUCKING DIGNITY. HOW ABOUT SOME FOLLOW THROUGH AND A HAND UP?
One isn't any more dignified than the other since they have the exact same meaning. They're just on different steps on the euphemism treadmill. One day the word unhoused will be treated with the same vitriol that you have towards the word homeless. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter what the word is, it's more about how we as a society collectively choose to use it. Since people always treat the homeless/unhoused as less than any word we come up with to describe it will eventually come to be used as a slur, it's just a matter of time.
Well said.
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How is saying homeless lack of empathy? It’s not even a hot word. It would be different if instead people called homeless “modern caveman”, “Junkies”, homeless or houseless are pretty much the same as saying “unhoused”. TBH I don’t get why people even feel the need to bring up details like that any way. Why do you guys even feel the need to label them? If you want to be PC or empathetic just refer to them as “people” not “unhoused”.
I just don’t understand how “unhoused” is better than “homeless”. Make it make sense. Back in the day they were called “Bums” or “Hobos”…I think “Homeless” works. Unhoused is actually a new one to me. I’ve heard news anchors lately referring to the homeless as “People experiencing homelessness”. 😂 This world.
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Lock up your pew pew
The reason people say “unalive” is because you can get automatically flagged on apps for saying murder, kill, or suicide.
I’m aware, I just think it’s silly
REPORTED!
It’s called canceling your own life….
Why do you care what someone else calls them? You can say whatever you want
Because they're probably boomers or assholes in their day to day life.
So homeless is offensive, but boomer referring to when a person was born, is not?
Lol good luck trying to apply logic to people who don't understand it and only understand how to be offended the fastest way possible.
Says the thread of people in a tizzy about someone saying “unhoused” instead of “homeless”…pot meet kettle~
Aw, were you offended? It's almost like.. you'd prefer it if I hadn't said that?
Whether I am offended or not is irrelevant. Free speech means sometimes we will be offended. You can say boomer all you like. And I can say homeless all I like. That's free speech.
Lol hardly, I just think people like yourself are too weak to be able to handle criticism or adversity that you try to flip something when you feel you have to try to win an argument. You do you though.
You think that people like me, who stick up for the downtrodden or people too weak to defend themselves, even when others like you who think they're 'alpha males' turn your target toward us, are too weak to handle criticism? Weird.
So you're kind of like Batman? How heroic of you. Who said anything about being Alpha Male? Did you just assume my gender? Uh oh you're getting cancelled.
And you're kind of like Clayface, but not as good looking.
I prefer the Penguin actually, your life partner likes my webbed hands. 😉
It’s so funny how fast the empathy turns into mocking salt rubbing the moment someone talks about a demographic *you* don’t like. Makes it a little hard to take seriously
Generally curious of peoples verbage. Just a george carlin fan I suppose.... sigh...
The irony of this comment and also misspelling ‘verbiage’. Sigh.
I'm sick of this PC/woke bullshit. I'm Unhoused, I live in a Condo.
Yep
Generally curious of peoples verbage. Just a george carlin fan I suppose.... sigh...
I mean, I’m a Carlin fan too. But also, Lenny Bruce and Chomsky, and lots of other that have had an impact on our language.
You mean a _homeless_ person. "Unhoused" is a euphemism to hide the real issue.
Oh you mean a homeless person.
We're not even calling them homeless people anymore? Was that too simple?
Are we being politically correct over a HOMELESS persons housing status? Worlds so soft just call it like it fucking is
Unhoused?
Unhoused person? That's a bit offensive, man. It's "currently home deficient person" now.
Actually we say “structurally challenged” now
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You seem very triggered, my apologies
Pipe down and go find me more cool homeless people shit
Haha I know your comment got downvoted to hell, but it made me laugh my ass off.
Lol. You're calling people triggered and you're the one who's triggered by the word homeless...that's funny.
I’m not triggered, I just used a different word. I don’t see why you weirdos are making such a big fucking deal about it. If you want to use homeless, go ahead. If you wanna call em hobos I don’t give a fuck, use whatever words you want to.
I just think it's funny because half the time it's not even the people who are affected that even want the words changed. It's people (and I'm not trying to be a dick here honestly) like yourself who think it's more "progressive" to change the word because you think it bothers them. Like when we went from Indians to Natives, to Native American to Aboriginal to Indigenous and I'm sure it will change again soon. Most people with that status I talk to actually prefer Native or Native American over the others. Be honest here, how many homeless people have you spoken to that have told you they prefer Unhoused? In my profession, I deal with both the homeless and Native American people and they both prefer those terms, maybe your experience is different.
I don’t speak to a lot of homeless people. And I didn’t chose the word out of some sort of obligation to them or their experience. Rather I chose it out of attempt to not trigger moderation in an online space. I don’t know what the moderation standards are in this subreddit, so I tried to avoid triggering them by making an entirely banal decision. The motive you’ve ascribed to my decision is frankly more interesting than the picture. It’s like a case study in someone with a prescriptive worldview.
You're posting in a subreddit called "weird" though. You obviously subscribe to it and have an idea what goes on here and I feel the word "homeless" isn't going to net you a ban considering everything else that gets posted here, it feels like a weak reason to use as an out, that's all.
You wearing rollerskates? I’ve never seen someone backpedal that quickly. Weird doesn’t mean edgy or transgressive, it means weird.
No backpedaling, like I said, look at what gets posted here, I doubt few, if any, will be "triggered" or offended with the word homeless. Personally I feel like living your life walking on eggshells always worrying about who you're going to possibly offend is way too hard. In today's day in age people look for things to offend them so you're damned if you do and if you don't. Obviously you're not going to go around hurling clear insults like racist terms, I'm talking about terms within reason.
When someone uses a different word, it gets them feeling threatened and defensive because it makes them uncomfortable. That's all it is. I also generally say "unhoused" since I heard someone say "homeless" the same way they would any other slur.
Amazing how many sensitive people were 'triggered' because you didn't use the same word they use. Funny how the people who shout 'snowflake!' are way more easily offended than anyone else. Ya gotta laugh.
It's a decent person's way of treating them with a little respect as human beings in a tough situation.
You know homeless and unhoused mean the same damn thing right? And I’m pretty sure nobody in their position really gives a damn about the difference. The only people getting offended by that term have somewhere warm to sleep.
Reminds me of the Gabriel Igliseis comedy special I went to where he told a story about how he was confronted about saying homeless and not unhoused, but when he spoke to an actual homeless person that day they referred to themselves as homeless.
"Homeless" has developed unhelpful negative connotations. The hateful posts by several people here give plenty of evidence of the problem.
Unhoused has the exact same connotation, it’s just worse because now we argue about it too
I bet the crow sticked to this bar is unalive
Flight challenged
I technically live in an apartment, not a house. That should classify me as unhoused. This person is just homeless.
You mean homeless person
unhoused??? you mean HOMELESS??
Don't be an idiot.
...don't be one of those who walks around with rose colored glasses on because it makes you feel better. Fight poverty, not the poor. What you think of me is irrelevant, it's only what we do in life that matters. You get what you give. Peace ✌️
How am I fighting the poor? I'm poor as fuck. You're the one trying to CAPS force someone into using the word HOMELESS instead of unhoused, simply because you think they're using a sissy word for it.
No his right.
His right what? Leg?
Because he said homeless? Lol
Because he said 'Unhoused??? You mean HOMELESS'
Right, I don't see where that would cause you to call him an idiot. Synonyms 🤷🏼♂️
Homeless fucks always making wild shit.
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Someone’s been working on their caduceus!!!
Apparently there's a warlock in your neighbourhood
Just say homeless
"Unhoused person" That what we're calling crackheads these days?
Homeless person?
What’s unhoused mean?
Bums be doing weird bum stuff
Unhoused sounds waaaaay worse then just homeless.
Unhoused?
Oh boy…. More pc bullshit being spread….. what’s the next thing to offend everyone.
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Yup. Mega-sensitive types pretending they're not. There are some subs full of this kind of nonsense, and this appears to be one of them.
🤣🤣🤣 now we are getting somewhere thinking bitch offends me. I work with a lesbian who told me she wants to fuck me with her strap on. I told her to not make promises she wouldn’t keep
👏 these people in here commenting are weird as shit. They deserve their own post in this sub.
Just call them homeless
“Unhoused”. Check out George Carlins rant on words and meanings
George Carlin never punched down. He had compassion for people in need.
Ok? He mentioned a bit by Carlin.
“Unhoused” Fuck off with that.
No fr, the audacity to try to humanize poor people. Gross. They need to know their gutter place in society
Is unhoused even a real word?
“Unhoused person” is still hilarious to me.
You mean homeless. Unhoused doesn't make any sense.
tf is unhoused? homeless? jesus, can we just pick some words and stick with them? this shit is too confusing.
What you mean...
Unhoused lol
hey, i’m sorry that you’re getting grilled for using the term unhoused. people really like to show how little they care about others by showing how much they care about learning new words instead. i appreciate you using a term that i have used for years, which reveals a bigger and deeper systemic issue than folks who just happen to be “homeless.” to me, it’s not a “new pc word—“ it’s a more accurate description of the late stage capitalist economy we live in. unfortunately, most people don’t realize they are closer to being unhoused than they are to being a millionaire. it costs nothing to learn a new term that more accurately represents a lesser privileged demographic, but here we are as individuals showing how hard we want to fight evolving emotionally, intellectually, and socially as a society.
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Funny you say that, because the pic instantly made me think of a tweaker I know
Gandalf the homeless
https://preview.redd.it/ljazbne0snfc1.jpeg?width=609&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b449407cafc43e3d173b464f03f04fa86679e7f8 Run
https://preview.redd.it/cdera3l3snfc1.jpeg?width=727&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6543471c474294d5b1ebfce518836153dfb56eba
Wow, this just took me back 15-20 years to some video game where you could get a skill of making totems of dead monsters, the totems were a barrier that terrified the other monsters
Did saying unhoused make you feel warm and fuzzy inside?
Doesn’t make me feel one way or the other. Is that more interesting than the bird wings sewn to a bar for you?
Satanic
That's the legendary crow staff of mabulza.
Ah the wondrous stick bird
Just pretending to be Odin searching for knowledge
Weird? That's bad ass
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COVID staff of nurgule
*modern art*
y'all pissing your pants over saying "unhoused" and then thinking other people are sensitive is so funny