The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool. From Douglas Coupland's book Generation X.
"You're bossy because you're the oldest child in the family."
"That's not true."
"Yeah, the oldest kid always want control."
"That's a 101-ism."
"That's not true."
"Yeah, the oldest kid always want control."
"That's a 101-ism."
by Nathan Shep May 27, 2007