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Where did this insult come from that implicitly says the goal of life is to have as many personality traits as possible. https://twitter.com/warlocktrash/status/1380303695829561344">https://twitter.com/warlocktr...
I think "personality trait" is supposed to mean like, "interesting thing about you".
I think I& #39;ve known people who had a few too many personality traits. You know, like, "take one accessory off", but for personality traits.
I think it& #39;s successful as an insult because it& #39;s very vague. I mean the meanest insults are, right. "Check out this guy without a personality!" "Shut up, I...I have a personality!" "Oh yeah? Crying isn& #39;t a personality."
If you were arrested for having a personality, would there be enough evidence to convict you.
Someday someone will explain what IS a personality.
Ok let& #39;s unpack this. If you say "hey, X isn& #39;t a personality trait", what you& #39;re saying is, "the person or people I am directing this insult to are making too big a deal out of X, they talk about X too much, where X is something banal, commonplace, or uninteresting". Right?
But really, it works because you can say it about anything. "Liking salsa dancing isn& #39;t a personality", "learning classical Arabic isn& #39;t a personality", "volunteering at a homeless shelter isn& #39;t a personality", those all sound about equivalently coherent and mean to me.
It& #39;s like "performatively". You can just put that into anything too. "I& #39;m sick of people who like Lil Nas X", hm, no, hold on, "I& #39;m sick of people PERFORMATIVELY liking Lil Nas X", there we go, that& #39;s a thing you can say.
And "X isn& #39;t a personality" is particularly mean because just in general, "dismissing what someone else is enthusiastic about" is one of the ruder things you can do, socially, I think. Not what we haven& #39;t all been on both sides.
Like if you want...a divorce, start peppering your conversation with your partner with "honey, that isn& #39;t a personality".
You know who has a personality?
