Dictionary of new words, without which it is impossible to survive on the Internet
In the Internet era, new concepts appear and disappear so quickly that it is often not at all time to invent Russian analogs for their designation. We follow new terms that capaciously define a rapidly changing reality. And in this dictionary collected important words that allow you to explain and describe the processes that are around and within you right now.
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Abuse
More than six months ago, in a secret psychological group, I asked the question: "How do I get away from the abuzer?" - and could not get any intelligible answer, except: "Run without looking back and stop any interaction." In practice, this is not so easy to implement, especially when a person has become your family and you have common children with him.
Relationship anarchy
Participants in anarchic relationships decide for themselves what they want to do with each other - and prefer not to hang tags. The nature of relationships is not important: they can be partnering, sexual, romantic, working or friendly, people can be tied by common interests, joint activities, correspondence on the Internet or anything else.
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Antinatalism
Some people not only do not believe that the preservation and growth of the population is an absolute good, but they are also confident that humanity should stop reproducing, that is, completely abandon procreation. This position is called anti-natalism, which literally translates as "against birth"
Asexuality
Asexuals are people who do not want to have sex with other people. As a rule, sex simply does not interest them. Many asexuals jokingly compare sex with a cake (the latter managed to become the unofficial symbol of the community): someone always loves sweets, someone eats it periodically, while others don’t stand up to the spirit
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Outing
In recent years, more and more public people in the West have come out - this recognition, as a rule, becomes a political statement. But a couple of decades ago, voluntary coming-out was rather the exception, and “exposing” politicians and celebrities was commonplace, even LGBT activists were engaged in
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Bodypositive
The modern perception of appearance is changing a lot, and the fatfoot attacks are less and less unanswered. We talked with eight instagram activists of the Russian bodipositive about what they do, how they see the perfect future, and how their surrounding people view their views.
Boston marriage
Boston marriage is called joint life of two women who lead a common life and care about each other. Many of the girls in the student community were forced to share housing with neighbors, but this way is very far from the Boston family: here we are talking about living together good friends, and not random neighbors
Whitewashing
Whitewashing (the story of which has been stretched since the days of “old Hollywood” and very archaic practices like blackface) is not a specifically Asian problem, as well as actors with Arab roots or a characteristic Latin American appearance suffer from inattention of casting agencies: terrorists, the second - drug dealers
Vegan abolitionism
Vegan abolitionism is a radical environmental ideology that suggests that veganism is just an ethical minimum (which, however, members of the movement consider mandatory for all people). The main and global goal of abolitionists is to completely free animals from property status.
Victory labeling
Victims of violence are most often charged with the same charges - for example, that if they used alcohol in a company, they themselves are to blame for what happened. Women allegedly must constantly monitor their condition, behave more cautiously and be alert - that is, comply with certain "safety techniques", otherwise they will become an easy victim for the perpetrator
Vissy
In the network "VKontakte", there are successfully publics, where they publish photos from the party - parties in the apartment or private house. As a rule, page administrators are not limited to snapshots of faces and funny drunken incidents painted with markers - photographs of naked girls from the scene are also often found
Gas jetting
Gazliding is a form of psychological violence, when one person manipulates another, tries to confuse him, distorts information so that a person begins to doubt the adequacy of his own perception and his memories
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Guesting
Imagine you went on a boring date, but the person continues to write to you after him. In this situation, you can explain why you no longer want to communicate, but you can simply not answer - anyway it will end sooner or later. This behavior is called "ghosting" from the English ghost - "ghost"
Green water
More and more brands are taking a course on environmental friendliness, however, not all products that are positioned as "green" are indeed such - sometimes their manufacturers are limited to only loud statements. This phenomenon has received the name of "greenhousing"
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Gatsbing
Your girlfriend puts in instagram selfie with the text: "I am going to the exhibition at night, who wants with me?" But you know that the message is not addressed to everyone: a friend hopes that a specific person will respond to her proposal. Such a cunning way of behavior in social networks has a name - gatsbing.
Benevolent sexism
Sexism can manifest itself in different ways: in explicit statements that women are supposedly "inferior" (it is called hostile sexism), and in the "benevolent" stereotype that all women are caring, sensitive, weak and in need of male protection beings (it is called benevolent sexism)
Drag
To grasp the essence of the drag, it is worth remembering that the game with dressing and assigning external signs typical of the "opposite" sex, existed almost always, and the modern drag is much more diverse than the types presented in the Ru Paul show
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Zero Weist
Zero waste, or “zero rubbish,” is a way of life thanks to which a person tries not to replenish garbage dumps at all. In practice, this means first of all awareness (just remember how much plastic in which products are packed, you throw out in a week, month or year) and a more responsible approach to consumption
Inclusiveness
Inclusiveness implies that a variety of people participate in society, and none of them, regardless of appearance, origin, gender, physical data, health, orientation or any other signs, do not feel deprived and excluded.
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Intersex
The word "intersex" rarely pops up in public space and does not cause any associations. Unfortunately, the invisibility of intersex people has dire consequences: they are subjected to unnecessary mutilation, violence and discrimination.
Intuitive power
Supporters of the ideas of intuitive nutrition advise to listen to the physical hunger and analyze the causes of emotional, if necessary, turning to experts. Another crucial part of this approach is the acceptance of oneself and one's own figure.
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Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is a concept denoting harassment on the Internet. It is believed that the most vulnerable group for cyberbullying is teenagers, but for adults the risk is not much less. Despite this, many doubt the existence of cyberbulling itself.
Cyberstalking
Any obtrusive harassment of a person by one person or group falls under the stalking, in fact it is a form of harassment and intimidation. If harassment occurs through network technologies, it is called online stalking or cyberstalking.
Colorism
Colorism - discrimination against people with a darker skin tone, common in South Asia, Africa, China, the USA and Latin America. In the United States, colorism arose before the Civil War: slaves with a lighter skin tone (often they were children of slaves and slave owners) usually were given easier work
Cultural appropriation
If the present world is a melting pot, where representatives of different cultures live side by side, sharing experience and taking advantage of each other's discoveries and inventions, what is the fundamental difference between "cultural appropriation" and cooperation - that is, between theft and exchange?
Lipstik feminism
Lipstick feminism - the direction of the third wave, defended the usual femininity along with feminist ideas. The right to make-up and an unbiased attitude towards him now has to be defended no less than the right to refuse it.
Lukizm
The term "lukizm", describing discrimination because of appearance, which does not meet accepted standards in society, appeared in the United States in the late seventies as part of the movement to fight fetching - although, of course, the problem itself arose much earlier
Menspleining
Who did not find themselves in a situation where a man condescendingly explains something to a woman by “making a discount” on her sex. These may be explanations “especially for girls” - for example, about the device of programs or applications, because computers are not “female” matters, and uninvited comments, even if the woman herself is well versed in the question
Menspreding
The fight against menspredding — that is, the male habit of sitting with legs wide open in public transport — has reached Russia. Mensprediting in the cities began to fight long before the word itself appeared: at one time a passenger who had collapsed widely in a wagon or bus was called, for example, "seathog" (literally: "Dominion")
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Misogyny
The conviction that the female gender “fails” to the male, the attitude to women as creatures mostly foolish, weak or dangerous - all this misogyny, or, in other words, misogyny. It is enshrined in popular wisdom, and even in philosophical writings.
Micro changes
Likes under photos of two years ago, frivolous use of emoji with flowers and hearts, a sudden subscription to the instagram of the former, a tinder in the list of applications, an ambiguous query history in a search engine - all this somehow fits the definition of microchange
Nanoinfluencers
As soon as the world got used to microinfluencers, marketers (and The New York Times followed them) started talking about “nanoinfluensers” - bloggers who have not millions and not hundreds of thousands, but thousands of subscribers. Despite modest numbers, companies are ready to order advertising posts for them.
Neuroplasticity
For a long time it was believed that the adult brain was formed once and for all, and its cells die irretrievably. Although the idea of neuroplasticity — the ability of the brain to change under the influence of experience — was found in experiments from the end of the 18th century, it was rejected until the last decades. But now everything has changed
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Neuro diversity
People with autism (or autistic people, as many of them prefer to call themselves) are gradually becoming visible thanks to improved health care and new research. US statistics spread that one of 68 children has an autistic spectrum disorder
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Neurosexism
It would seem that modern research methods should give an unequivocal answer to the question of whether men and women really think, learn, solve problems and choose what is important for them in life
Objectification
Sexual objectification is the construction and / or perception of someone as a sexual object. For example, if a man goes to the subway and eagerly examines the neckline of a lady who is located opposite, this is a typical and familiar case of sexual objectification.
Orbiting
Many have come across orbiting in one form or another; they simply may not have attached any importance to this. Former partners with whom you no longer speak, but to whom you like; friends with whom it is impossible to talk, but mutual subscriptions in social networks help to keep a sense of closeness
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Conscious consumption
More and more people are ready, if not to abandon plastic completely, then at least reduce its quantity, make a choice in favor of more environmentally friendly materials and try to acquire healthy habits
Pei Gap
What is the gender pay gap is clear to everyone: so far, all over the world, women get less for the work they do on a par with men. In order to eradicate inequality in the world, at the current pace of development, it will take another 170 years
Positive discrimination
The market with a human face encourages just such positive discrimination: socially responsible corporations help to eliminate the personnel imbalance that has developed because of centuries-old stereotypes, but at the same time they maintain pure competition in finding employment.
Principle of consent
Not everything related to sexual consent is regulated by law. The concept of sexual consent implies not only that two adult persons enter into a relationship: it is very important that they act consciously and voluntarily
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Prolife
Supporters of the prolife movement use psychological pressure: they call the embryo a child and appeal to the emotions of a woman. They distort the data, and links to well-conducted (or even any) research on the websites of these organizations are not found. And that's not all: sometimes the activity of the prolifera takes on the character of extremism.
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Psychoactivism
Psycho-activism is a social movement for the rights of people with mental disorders, which has existed in the world for a long time, and is only beginning to develop in Russia - almost for the first time in Russian history it has appeared in the federal media and on television
Rabbing
During sex, not everyone wants penetration - and sometimes you don't even want to undress. In this case, you can do rabbing - non-penetrating practice, which can give strong feelings with minimal energy consumption. In addition, rabbing helps improve the quality of other types of sex.
Safety
What does not kill can make a person stronger - and can “reward” him with neuroses and PTSD for the rest of his life. Getting out of the comfort zone is useful, but it would be nice to be able to return to it from time to time.
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Singlism
The halo of "inferiority" hangs over the loners constantly. Some sociologists even talk about a special kind of discrimination - singlism. As it turned out, it manifests itself not only in unpleasant matters at family dinners and a sense of ridiculous melancholy on Valentine's Day, but also at the institutional level
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Slatshteming
At the very notion of sloatsharing - the conviction of a woman for a "frivolous" appearance or behavior, equivalent to the cry of "sh *** a!" - there is no equivalent in the Russian language, as well as an established translation. And this is the case when there is no word, but the phenomenon is
Slow motion
Strictly speaking, slow movement is an umbrella term that unites various aspects of life. Anyway, in any of its manifestations, the movement is reduced to a simple setting: to exist in the rhythm that is convenient for the person himself.
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Stalking
No one is immune from harassment either in social networks or in real life (which become integral parts of each other), and their consequences can be truly terrible
Straightwashing
This word designates situations when the image of the LGBT character is intentionally corrected so that it fits better with heterosexual cultural norms. There are more subtle manifestations when the film tells the story of LGBT characters, but through the prism of heterosexual canons
Survivalism
In films and books, they are often portrayed as unsociable eccentrics, society suspects sectarians and extremists of them, they consider themselves reasonable people. They are survivalists, and they intend to survive when the world, as we know it, ceases to exist.
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Transhumanism
Transhumanism is a philosophical concept and movement that advocates for improving the capabilities of consciousness and the human body through science and technology. Some people see a great achievement of progress in the controlled evolution of man, others are a dangerous "game of god"
Transphobia
Transgender people are one of the most oppressed groups of the population: they are hated by conservative politicians, religious orthodox people and simply those whose views are far from liberal. Transgender people are discriminated against at work, they are forbidden to serve in the army and are not allowed to engage in professional sports. And even some feminists and representatives of the LGBT community are not always friendly towards them.
Tulpa
Tulpa is a product of self-suggestion, a visualized phantom that acts of its own accord. Simply put, an imaginary friend that everyone can supposedly create for himself. You can talk, play, quarrel with tulpa, and in theory even have sex and change bodies
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Fasting
The idea of the benefits of full starvation is still alive, and that in Silicon Valley (hello "biohacking"), in Russia. It is promoted as a means of losing weight, a way to conduct a "detox" and get rid of "slags" and even as a cure for various diseases, including cancer.
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Facessing
Many believe that sitting on the face is a pose for cunnilingus. In fact, everything is much more complicated. Facesitting is a practice in which the "upper" partner is squatting or kneeling over the face of the "lower" so that he clings to him with the vulva or anus. Moreover, oral sex is not a prerequisite.
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Femvertising
Advertising addressed to women, the so-called femming, in recent years has been one of the most sought-after brand promotion tools in the world - it’s logical that they are also attached to this trend in Russia
Financial dominance
How sociologists explain this phenomenon wittily, some men are so tired of power and the need to earn that they unconsciously undermine the consumption system and the patriarchal hierarchy - they give all the money to unfamiliar women from the Internet and do not require anything in return
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