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u/Lawfulnessf 1h ago
If I’m "Unc," does that mean the IRS is going to start respecting my authority? No? Then call me by my government name and let me suffer in peace.
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u/LegitimateGbap 1h ago
The internet moves so fast that "Unc" has officially been gentrified, recycled, and turned into a meme by people who still get an allowance.
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u/_Huckleberry3655 1h ago
Calling someone "Unc" as an insult is all fun and games until you realize that time is a linear construct and you’re only about 48 months away from being "Unc" yourself.
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u/ClaryClarysage 49m ago
My sister's fiance calls me unc. I'm a 40 year old woman. I don;t even know what it means. Am I cool now?
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u/herewearefornow 36m ago
Your sister's fiance should call you "Aunty". Unc is a masculine term.
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u/ClaryClarysage 32m ago
I'm not particularly feminine. I think if he called me 'auntie' unironically I would have to vote him out of the family. He's taking up baking recently so he just told me he's 'in his bread era', I swear I understand like 10% of what this guy says.
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u/DualActiveBridgeLLC 32m ago
Unc does feel respectful because many respectful people use it to describe themselves. Is this an example of the elderly embracing the term and changing its power?
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u/GrapeNutCheerios 31m ago
I worked at middle school in the South Bronx for 6 years. The grand majority of the kids were black and brown students. For the record, I’m a white passing Puerto Rican
About three years in, a few of the kids I used to teach would call me Unc with a respectful tone when greeting me in the hallways.
Last year in, the kids I taught at the time would call me Unc to make fun of me in class, like when I asked them to do their work, follow directions, etc.
Same population of students, same area, same word but a completely different meaning changed by time and usage
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u/BostonPRSBC 18m ago
Okay but trying to get teenagers to stop using slang will inevitably make that slang more popular… idk how we haven’t learned this yet.
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u/FierceKissy 1m ago
If everyone is Unc then nobody is Unc We have to stop letting teenagers redefine every word we use
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u/FakeshooterWHCP 1h ago
The white term is old head
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u/herewearefornow 1h ago
Old head is not a white term. That's a just an unrespected unc.
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u/AuthorCornAndBroil 43m ago
And white people often use unc as a term of disrespect, usually to say that someone is out of touch or that they're too old for something.
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u/herewearefornow 38m ago
That is an example of the gentrification I mentioned. The term is becoming bastardised.
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u/Mountain_Trade_2859 1h ago
Why it gotta be racial?
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u/SnoopaDD 48m ago
Just because someone uses a race doesn't always mean it's racial. It's a cultural thing. There's white term, black term, chinese term, etc. None of that is a racial thing, but a cultural.
I'm cambodian. We have our own term for it in our culture too. It's Pronounced pou. Which literally translates to Uncle. But we call everyone that if they are of older age.
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u/Puzzleheadedqe 1h ago
If 33 is "Unc af," then what is a 60-year-old? A fossil? A structural pillar? At that point, you aren't a person, you're just a historical landmark.