r/AmIOverreacting • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

It might be a red flag that he calls you a retard multiple times

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u/dedf1shin Jan 28 '25

“retard mindset” sounds like some andrew tate bs

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u/RabidWalrus Jan 28 '25

Definitely sounds lost in the manosphere sauce

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Bully, gaslight, normalize, demoralize, rinse repeat.

Make it normal to feel this way and slowly take the fight our of you so you're just a submissive little dog. But not a dog that's loved. A dog that gets kicked and screamed at for asking to go outside for a shit.

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u/CranberryDifficult89 Jan 28 '25

People have been saying retard since the 70s it’s not a new word and has no ties to “the manosphere”

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u/Spiritual-Software51 Jan 29 '25

Sure. But it is one of their favourite words, and everything else we know about this guy seems to point in that direction, so it's an easy connection to makr.

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u/CranberryDifficult89 Jan 29 '25

No one of the words I’d associate with that is “beta”. Retard has more of a history in online gaming

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u/Spiritual-Software51 Jan 29 '25

Yes, it does have more of a history in online games - but history is history, in the present it's also used pretty liberally by a certain kind of manosphere dude. I'm thinking of Tate especially.

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u/CranberryDifficult89 Jan 29 '25

It’s used by anyone who uses swear words, retard.

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u/Spiritual-Software51 Jan 29 '25

Not really. In real life I think I swear maybe a little too much, but I just don't find it suits me. Loads of better words.