Urban Neutral

An Urban Neutral is an urban dweller whose worldview leans toward the center—pragmatic, balanced, and largely unaffiliated with any rigid ideology. Shaped by liberal education and enriched by exposure to diverse cultures and languages, Urban Neutrals are often well-traveled and open-minded. Their views are typically issue-based and transactional rather than driven by dogma or partisanship.

Though they may sometimes be mistaken for being apathetic or agnostic in their social stances, Urban Neutrals often play the role of the calm, reasoned voice in increasingly polarized societies. They value nuance over absolutes and seek understanding over judgment.

Take Aby, an Urban Neutral; Although he grew up in a deeply parochial environment, his reading and travels broadened his perspective, moving him away from a binary view of the world. He credits his inner peace to a deeper grasp of human behavior and the ways people evolve beyond the circumstances of their birth.

by swoboda April 16, 2025

Urban Neutral

An Urban Neutral is an urban dweller whose worldview leans toward thecenter—pragmatic, balanced, and largely unaffiliated with any rigid ideology. Shaped by liberal education and enriched by exposure to diverse cultures and languages, Urban Neutrals are often well-traveled and open-minded. Their views are typically issue-based and transactional rather than driven by dogma or partisanship.
Though they may sometimes be mistaken for being apathetic or agnostic in their social stances, Urban Neutrals often play the role of the calm, reasoned voice in increasingly polarized societies. They value nuance over absolutes and seek understanding over judgment.

Take Aby, an Urban Neutral; Although he grew up in a deeply parochial environment, his extensive reading and travels broadened his perspective, moving him away from a binary view of the world. He credits his inner peace to a deeper grasp of human behavior and the ways people evolve beyond the circumstances of their birth.

by swoboda April 18, 2025

Stuck in neutral

To be out of control of your body, whatever happens happens. Rolling at the pace of the universe.

Smoked so much, that a bitch was stuck in neutral.

by Troglodyte April 11, 2021

Put ‘em in Neutral

The act of putting 4 Benadryls in one’s energy drink, thus canceling out the effects.

Ivan: “Felipe did you go to the part last night?”

Felipe: “Yeah I went with Gavin.”

Ivan: “Did y’all see Jackson?”

Felipe: “Yeah, Jackson was acting hella crazy last night, I had to put ‘em in neutral .”

by Deamly June 7, 2024

Bias of Neutral and Impartial Proof

A bias that treats Western standards of proof—deductive certainty for mathematics, statistical significance for science, eyewitness testimony for law—as neutral, universal, and the only legitimate ways to establish truth. The Bias of Neutral and Impartial Proof ignores that standards of proof vary across cultures and historical periods, that what counts as "proof" is negotiated, not discovered, and that Western proof standards have been used to dismiss non-Western knowledge systems. It presents "proof" as a pure concept, erasing its social construction. Those with this bias don't see their proof standards as one tradition; they see them as proof itself. Everyone else has anecdotes, superstition, or belief.

"Where's your proof?" they demanded, meaning "Where's your double-blind RCT?" Bias of Neutral and Impartial Proof: treating one culture's proof standards as universal. The speaker never considered that other forms of validation exist—centuries of observation, intergenerational knowledge, lived experience. Their proof was just proof; everything else was anecdote."

by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026

Bias of Neutral and Impartial Evidence

A bias that treats Western evidentiary hierarchies—privileging quantitative over qualitative, experimental over observational, published over experiential—as neutral, universal, and the only legitimate ways to know. The Bias of Neutral and Impartial Evidence ignores that what counts as evidence is shaped by power, that different domains require different kinds of evidence, and that Western evidence standards have been used to exclude marginalized knowers. It presents "evidence" as a pure category, erasing its politics. Those with this bias don't see their evidentiary standards as one tradition; they see them as evidence itself. Everyone else has anecdotes, stories, or bias.

"That's just anecdotal, not real evidence." Bias of Neutral and Impartial Evidence: treating quantitative data as the only evidence, dismissing experience, testimony, and qualitative research. The speaker never considered that for some questions, anecdotes are the only evidence available. Their evidence was just evidence; everything else was nothing."

by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026

Golden fucking neutral

When you mediate two feelings or actions to achieve a third effect that is greater than the sum of it's parts. For instance, having a coffee and a zyn, or having a shitty monday morning hungover and having a lunchtime beer. Then you get golden fucking neutral.

Christ, that 2cb made me tweak, but the buckfast has got me golden fucking neutral baby.

by Cheekygeezer333 August 6, 2025