rant · moment 5 of 22
Twitter Ruined Everyone Being Heard, and the PC Boyfriend Who Says 'Partner'
from Bay Ridge Boys · #133
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minRiff on his father's early prediction that Twitter would be bad because not everyone deserves a platform, dead-eyed online influencers, and suspicion of straight men who overcorrect with PC language like calling a girlfriend a 'partner.'
- 10:19Used to be winners and losers in America; now everybody celebrates eighth place because Twitter gave everyone a platform.
- 10:33Tim's father, with an eighth-grade education, predicted Twitter would be a problem for the country because not everybody's supposed to be heard from.
- 10:50People with the biggest online followings turn out to be dead-eyed, uncomfortable in real life—like Adderall-fueled husks staring at screens.
- 11:20A straight guy said 'partner' instead of 'girlfriend'—trying to be overly PC—which signals he's hiding something, probably abusive.
- 11:48Tim doesn't trust people who act interested just because someone is gay or a minority; he wants to know who they actually are.
- 12:21The problem with identity-first thinking is you're not seeing somebody as an individual, you're seeing them as a category serving a group.
- 12:36Tim wants to lose weight so he'll live long enough to see Giannis move to Long Island and can show up with bagels on day one.
- 13:05Being gay is the last thing people should know about Tim; he doesn't want to be viewed as someone getting career help from 2019 identity dynamics.
- 13:35Some comics you look at and know that without being gay they'd work at Geico—Tim doesn't want that assumption about himself.
- 13:46What used to matter was being naturally funny with weird interests; that still should be the standard for success.