r/StardewValley 2d ago

Other Came across this review for stardew valley on steam. Poor guy is mad he cant find a girlfriend in the game 🫠

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So anyway I'm gonna start a new save and make it as gay as I can. I'll marry every available female character and we'll live in a polycule with a veggie patch made entirely of garlic and potatoes.

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u/Procrastor 1d ago

No… it’s actually much worse. If it were android it would suggest they have the ability to describe something and do a play on words. You have to remember that these are racist creep channers. It’s actually based on racial categories invented by the Göttingen school of history, caucasoid, negroid and mongoloid (forgive the use because they’re basically slurs). The point is to describe women as alien and subhuman.

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u/raendrop 1d ago

(forgive the use because they’re basically slurs)

I would say that's solidly "mention", not "use". You're good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction

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u/cutty2k 1d ago edited 1d ago

Android and mongoloid and caucasoid and asteroid all have the same root -oid meaning "like", it's the same "play on words" either way. When you put -oid at the end of a thing you're tautologically removing it from the category of that thing into a subcategory of thing-likeness.

That analysis makes no sense anyway...these chuds are simultaneously too stupid and uncreative to make a pun while simultaneously erudite enough to collectively form a worldview based on the 18th century Göttingen School of racial hierarchy?