The state of gaining pleasure, often sexual, through cruel or degrational behaviour towards other people, often by inflicting physical pain or causing humiliation.
Other forms: sadist, sadistic
Linked to: sadomasochism Antonyms: masochism
The social, legal, or institutional discrimination against individuals who are mentally ill/neurodivergent, or who may be considered "not sane" by society's standards. This can often cross over into ableism.
The term sanism was originally coined by Morton Birnbaum.
Some oppressive terms that reinforce sanist stereotypes: crazy, insane, psycho, retarded, dumb, mad house, mental case; misuse of medical terms such as OCD, bipolar, schizophrenic, autistic, etc.
Jesse: I can't attend college in person due to my social anxiety and depression, so I take my courses online.
May: That's ridiculous. Everyone dislikes going to school. Just suck it up.
Jesse: That's sanism.
A manchild who tries to sell with a deep staten island accent. Often a salisman will have deep yellow stains on his unwashed fingers from smoke and nicotine. The salisman will almost always have a low closing percentage and be forced to wear out of style clothing. The salisman will let his eyebrows grow to unheard of lengths. He will act much like a fatta and in the summer months resort to wearing his shorts very long in the salfatta style. Many salismen have been rubbed by the testemorph.