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Bit idea: be considerate, helpful, kind, and patient to the people you're playing a game with, or even playing against, and if you get any pushback for that, say "it's just a game." (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

what I am saying is that using the phrase that way is a misuse. Like saying boys will be boys to excuse abuse when it's a phrase about children playing roughly. Or it's "just a few bad apples" when the phrase is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

what I am saying is that using the phrase that way is a misuse

Yes, and it is a very common misuse. Saying it is a misuse doesn't stop people from using that way and it does not stop that way from taking precedence over time.

"Bad apples" is said so often about police brutality that that misuse is probably more commonly used than the complete old saying, "misuse" or not.

As another more specific example of how "misuse" can take over, Pepe the frog was never intended by his creator to be the basis of nazi memes, but those nazi memes were so common that the comic's creator, after a long legal struggle, gave up on the character and even drew a funeral to represent giving up on trying to get the character back.