The ’90s called, they want their phones back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z’s nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z’s love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

  • TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social
    43·
    7 months ago

    I 100% agree, but is there any way we could kind of keep working to phase out retarded from common vocabulary. It’s just such a charged and unnecessary word to use as a pejorative.

    • Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee
      12·
      7 months ago

      I would argue words change meaning and if you dont like that word you also shouldn’t use “stupid” or “dumb”. I’ve never heard anyone disparage a person with intellectual disabilities using that term so in my mind it just means… How should I phrase this for someone so sensitive… “Very much not smart”. Idiot should be fine since it comes from a word meaning “common person”. I don’t use the word anymore because i don’t want to push even sensitive people away, but I do think the whole thing is pretty silly.

      • Lmaydev@programming.dev
        9·
        7 months ago

        It’s literally what everyone here called mentally disabled people in the 90s. And it was meant to be insulting.

        • Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee
          16·
          7 months ago

          Look dude it doesn’t matter what word you use, there will always be a word or phrase to convey the essence of what the r-word represents. Its all just a treadmil of expressions, you can cancel the r-word and then in 20 years we can have this exact conversation about “stupid” and “dumb”.

          • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
            4·
            7 months ago

            It does matter what words you use as evidenced by the fight you’re putting up to justify using hateful slurs. If it doesn’t matter than you should say to yourself “this doesn’t matter to me but it matters to others so I’ll be respectful and not use the word like an insult anymore.”

            Would you walk up to somebody who is on the autism spectrum and call them that word? Are you seriously that daft? Do we have to get this basic about this because you can’t use your imagination?

            Your response is flippant and I know even you could come up with examples where we needed to stop using a word and it was a good decision. But instead you are grandstanding and using absolutist language here because you want to win an Internet argument. For what? The right to use a hateful slur targeting people who have no control over something you are mocking?

            You are welcome to use it if it’s that important to you. But you are not immune from social repercussions. And no, no one is going to grant you that. So live your life knowing you can be the hurtful person you want to be.

      • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
        6·
        7 months ago

        That word hasnt changed meaning and people still alive now have been ridiculed with it. You dont get to reclaim slurs that you arent part of the community its aimed at. Stop using the word.