When someone seems intent on telling you to stop feeling a specific emotion. Usually negativity because you're "bringing everyone's mood down" or something similar. Even when you hide your emotions in public and say one offhand comment about how you really feel,there will most likely be someone there to enact Emotional Policing. You're expected to change yourself despite how you truly feel,despite how many facts you have to back up your emotions (which you shouldn't need because that notion seeks to invalidate emotional response). Emotional Policing is everywhere.
Example one:
Todd: "Yeah,Project 2025 is going to hurt a lot of marginalized people and minorities. I'm worried my friends will die."
Bill: "Oh my god,stop being such a fucking doomer Todd! Just relax,everything will be okay."
Todd: "Oh yeah,I should totally 'just relax' when the people I know are going to be hurt or killed. Fuck you and your Emotional Policing,Bill."
Example two:
Jerry: *Expresses even one negative emotion.*
Tom: "SHUT UP YOU DOOMER PESSIMIST NEGATIVE NANCY DOOMER DOOMER DOOMER! BE HAPPY GODDAMNIT DON'T DRAG DOWN THE MOOD OF EVERYONE AROUND YOU STOP IT"
Jerry: "Fuckin' Emotional Policing.."
Todd: "Yeah,Project 2025 is going to hurt a lot of marginalized people and minorities. I'm worried my friends will die."
Bill: "Oh my god,stop being such a fucking doomer Todd! Just relax,everything will be okay."
Todd: "Oh yeah,I should totally 'just relax' when the people I know are going to be hurt or killed. Fuck you and your Emotional Policing,Bill."
Example two:
Jerry: *Expresses even one negative emotion.*
Tom: "SHUT UP YOU DOOMER PESSIMIST NEGATIVE NANCY DOOMER DOOMER DOOMER! BE HAPPY GODDAMNIT DON'T DRAG DOWN THE MOOD OF EVERYONE AROUND YOU STOP IT"
Jerry: "Fuckin' Emotional Policing.."
by Lazthedictionist November 23, 2024
When you eat a large amount of food before taking some medicine and sleeping in all day in order to cure whatever sickness or issues you're currently undergoing.
Just finished a big meal of some chicken strips and bread,gonna pop a pill and go into medical hibernation for the rest of the day until my back feels better.
by Lazthedictionist May 28, 2025
A strange phenomenon mostly native to Urban Dictionary where the top entries about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feel the need to bitch and whine about Power Rangers. It is parallel,but not entirely similar,to the way a medium handful of people from the old internet proclaimed cartoons to be superior to anime and hated anything animated in Japan,although Power Rangers is technically an adaptation of Super Sentai and not Japanese,however the parallels are still there. An additional thing to note is that the two series have both crossed over multiple times,be it in television or comic form,and as of writing the two are currently in franchise development hell or at least close to it.
EXAMPLE ONE:
Tommy: "I like Power Rangers."
Larry (while violently convulsing): "FUCK YOU POWER RANGER FANS FOR RUINING TMNT WITH YOUR SISSY ZORDS,THE TURTLES COULD KICK THE RANGER'S ASSES ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!"
Tommy: "Keep your Turtle Elitism to yourself,you old douchebag. Also,which rangers specifically?"
Larry: "FUCK!"
EXAMPLE TWO:
Frank: "I'm sick of seeing Turtle Elitism every time I look up the definition of the TMNT on Urban Dictionary."
Mari: "Why were you looking up the definition of TMNT on Urban Dictionary in the first place?"
Frank: "Boredom."
Tommy: "I like Power Rangers."
Larry (while violently convulsing): "FUCK YOU POWER RANGER FANS FOR RUINING TMNT WITH YOUR SISSY ZORDS,THE TURTLES COULD KICK THE RANGER'S ASSES ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!"
Tommy: "Keep your Turtle Elitism to yourself,you old douchebag. Also,which rangers specifically?"
Larry: "FUCK!"
EXAMPLE TWO:
Frank: "I'm sick of seeing Turtle Elitism every time I look up the definition of the TMNT on Urban Dictionary."
Mari: "Why were you looking up the definition of TMNT on Urban Dictionary in the first place?"
Frank: "Boredom."
by Lazthedictionist July 31, 2024