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Social Justice Warrior reactionary 

Idiots who try to fight the SJW movement through trying to make bigotry, bullying, hate speech, and degrading comments heroic. Think that anyone who speaks against hate speech is a communist. Yet forget that Freedom of Speech goes both ways. Their ideas of freedom of speech say that there is nothing wrong with saying hateful crap, and that there should be no social consequences for doing so.
Social Justice Warrior Reactionary: You Fags are aid ridden parasides
Regular Person: You are a disgusting bigot

SJW Reactionary: Freedom of Speech
RP: Your right, and Im using mine to tell you that you are an ignorant jerk
SJW Reactionary: Shit(Thinking: I have nothing to say but it protects snowflakes like me from facing the consequences of my hate speech)

Normal Person: I just started my own company cause my boss was a huge ass
SJW Reactionary: So you are just a snowflake cause you couldnt stand working for a boss
NP: Shut Up
SJW reactionary: You are a tyrant

SJW Reactionary: Bigots matter too, we are so persecuted. I got fired for calling a woman a bitch and that she should go back to the Kitchen
Woman: No your creating a Hostile Working environment
SJW Reactionary: Liberals like you should be fired
Woman: Yet you dont
SJW Reactionary: Woe is me, I am so persecuted

Social Sciences of Reductionism

A field that studies reductionism—the view that complex phenomena can be explained by simpler, more fundamental components—as a social and epistemic practice. It examines how reductionist approaches become dominant in certain sciences (e.g., molecular biology, particle physics), how reductionist frameworks are taught and rewarded, and how they shape research agendas. The social sciences of reductionism also study anti‑reductionist movements (holism, emergentism, systems biology) as social counter‑movements, and how the reductionism/holism debate is structured by institutional and cultural factors.
Example: “Social sciences of reductionism research showed that funding agencies in the 1990s systematically favored molecular approaches over organismal biology—not because molecular science was more correct, but because it fit reductionist narratives that were easier to sell to policymakers.”

Sociology of Reductionism

The sociological subfield focusing on the communities, institutions, and power dynamics that promote or resist reductionist approaches in science and philosophy. It examines how reductionist orthodoxy is maintained through graduate training, peer review, and funding priorities; how scientists who advocate for holistic or emergent explanations are marginalized; and how reductionist frameworks become embedded in instrumentation and experimental design. The sociology of reductionism also studies how reductionist ideologies circulate beyond science, shaping public understanding and policy.

Example: “The sociology of reductionism revealed that the rise of genomics in the 2000s was accompanied by a social devaluation of whole‑organism biology—researchers who studied living animals were called ‘naturalists’ (a soft insult), while molecular biologists were called ‘hard scientists.’”
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briefcake 

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countrypolitan 

Term used to describe someone who is a mix of both rural (country) and urban (metropolitan) lifestyles/upbringings. He/she is typically equally comfortable in both settings and is able to seamlessly slip back and forth between the two, appreciating the characteristics of each.
That ol' gal of mine drives the 12 lane freeway during the week and a John Deere on the weekends. She likes opra and the Grand Ol' Opry. I love them countrypolitan women.
countrypolitan by MOChick November 7, 2006
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A bath consisting of a variety of slats, oils, soaps or any other added ingredients such as fruits, milks, herbs or any other spices for health or beautifying benifits.
She brought home alot of stuff and took it to the bathroom. She must be taking a witch bath.
Witch Bath by carnieboy30 October 26, 2020
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kinktober 

An excuse for people to write porn with different types of kinks throughout the month of October.

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That chick doesn't write often but when she does, its for Kinktober.
kinktober by Kinkiest July 12, 2018
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proper lad 

a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
person1:did you see bob
person2: ya he was a proper lad
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