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Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family.

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varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I don’t see anyone furiously angry.

Ugh, this is so tiring, but we are going to fight this one out. Fine then, substitute it by “bikeshedding”. It’s not the exact right meaning, I know, but it’s just the same energy as someone bringing a cake and that one person just NEEDS to point out that they can’t eat it because of gluten, and how dangerous gluten is and how ignorant it is to bake stuff using gluten and the bees for the honey, WHAT, THERE IS NO HONEY, THERE IS INDUSTRIAL SUGAR IN IT?

It’s all things we can talk about and maybe they are even valid and sorry, yes, next time I can use corn flour and see if that works, but I can’t lose the feeling that’s not what the purpose of that piping up was.

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jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
This is hardly bikeshedding.

I wonder if male, middle-aged dogs dream? Do male, middle-aged postal workers deliver their own mail? Question for male, middle-aged linguists:…

It’s human nature to wonder why, in a one-sentence post title, you included some details that don’t seem relevant.

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- varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh Jeez. But, here is some gluten free cake I made just to cater to your specific headspace and to prevent too much overthinking which has been known to cause cancer in individuals in the state of California:
  
  I wonder how many individuals across all genders, ages, cultural backgrounds, and career stages who happen to occupy positions of creative oversight, organizational leadership, artistic guidance, funeral arrangement management, photographic composition supervision, musical ensemble coordination, or administrative stewardship refer to it as a “director’s cut” when ethically portioning the plant-based or traditionally-sourced protein centerpiece at their chosen family’s consensual gathering that may or may not coincide with various cultural harvest celebrations, regardless of whether they personally identify with the role of food distribution facilitator.
  
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  - jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    um… “I wonder how many directors say ‘director’s cut’ when cutting turkey at thanksgiving.” Did you really not consider this…?
    
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    varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I tried it but the repetition of the word ruined it when I had it written out. I think it’s because it takes away the little “huh, oh, right” moment from the reader.
    
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