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Wait neckbeard is abelist? Can anybody give me the rundown on this, I had never heard this take before.
There’s a variety of reasons why someone might not groom themselves and wind up with a neckbeard that doesn’t involve the stereotype, and mocking anyone on their appearance might hurt other people who look like that that are reading what you’re saying. That’s the take I’ve seen I’m not sure if that’s what was explained to Beatnik
Having read through that, I can see where its coming from. A small quibble I have is that the original use I always saw more as a stereotype of people who could not grow beards actively growing out the neckbeard as a conscious choice, the kind of people who wanted to pass themselves as the “societal ideal” without being it or actually trying to achieve it. However, I do also understand that there definitely became a harmful correlation between the term and autism (thanks, 4Chan!) which definitely could make this word into an abelist one. There’s probably flecks of reactionary still in my mind that say it might not be that terrible, but it may better to avoid it if you can.
I think it’s one of those insults that dont make sense because enough time has passed it has lost its meaning. In 2005 it generally meant someone who didnt go outside and probably hoarded trash and shat in plastic bags
It came from the toxic backwater of 4chan. I think a lot of people romanticise what it was like in the early days. Moot mades attempts, but gave up pretty quickly. Everyone was male, if you said you werent you were just looking for attention, everyone was straight, I got called a candyass a fair bit -a moderating attempt that failed to quash homophobia-, everyone was a nerd, who else browsed message boards in 2005? and in this world calling somone a virgin neckbeard makes sense. Even of you left your computer and tried, no one would like you anyway, you dont even know how to start, what an hero
