by Blindish October 11, 2017
Get the patterned mug.A form of age-based dismissal where someone uses age or generational difference to invalidate another's perspective, experience, or authority. Paternoadultism can take several forms: the patronizing "you're young enough to be my child" (implying inexperience), the prescriptive "adults do X" (defining maturity by conformity), or the dismissive "when you're my age you'll understand" (positioning age as wisdom). It's a power move dressed as experience—using years as leverage, age as authority. Like other -isms, it stereotypes and dismisses based on a category (age) rather than engaging content.
"She raised a valid point about workplace culture. He replied, 'When you're my age, you'll understand how things really work.' That's Paternoadultism—dismissing her perspective by appealing to age, not argument. Her point was good regardless of her years. But age was the card, and he played it."
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When someone willingly, or at someones direction, consumes so much Patron Tequila that he/she grabs any blunt object (this can be anything, a golf club, a chair, a coffee table) they can find and begins attacking people and inanimate objects (lamps, TVs, etc.) with it. This is usually, but not always, followed by vomiting somewhere other than the toilet.
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