CGS occurs when fauxhemian parents give their child some kind of peculiar and difficult-to-escape legacy derived from their particular brand of fauxhemianism.
The most common legacy is a "unique" (bizarre) name, or respelling of a common name, that they are convinced will identify the child as "creative" (pretentious) or "special" (too stupid to spell her own name). Examples of the first include "Dakota Cheyenne", "Iriniel Moonchilde", or anything Elvish or Klingon; examples of the second include "Cymberliy", "Djennifr", and "Padraigh" (unless one or both parents actually are native Irish and/or speak Gaelic).
Other legacies include odd religious traditions (say, Raelianism, or, Invisible Pink Unicorn help us all, Scientology); teaching the child an invented language such as Quenya, Klingon, or Lojban as hir native tongue; and attempting to raise a non-intersex child as an androgyne.
The most common legacy is a "unique" (bizarre) name, or respelling of a common name, that they are convinced will identify the child as "creative" (pretentious) or "special" (too stupid to spell her own name). Examples of the first include "Dakota Cheyenne", "Iriniel Moonchilde", or anything Elvish or Klingon; examples of the second include "Cymberliy", "Djennifr", and "Padraigh" (unless one or both parents actually are native Irish and/or speak Gaelic).
Other legacies include odd religious traditions (say, Raelianism, or, Invisible Pink Unicorn help us all, Scientology); teaching the child an invented language such as Quenya, Klingon, or Lojban as hir native tongue; and attempting to raise a non-intersex child as an androgyne.
Your name is ... what? How do you pronounce, um, that? How do you even _spell_ that? 'tlhIHuQ miHan'? Oh. Do you mind if I call you 'Dave'?" -- "Mrs. Haney, she's got Congenital Fauxhemian Syndrome. We just call her 'Stevie'.
by DancingKali April 11, 2011
One of the coolest characters in *Non Sequitur*, one of the coolest comic strips around. Noted for being preternaturally intelligent, satirical, independent, clever, and sardonic.
by DancingKali April 11, 2011
A conformist passing herself off as a nonconformist by going to great lengths to conform to an allegedly nonconforming alternative conformity rather than conforming to the mainstream conformity that she thinks is stiflingly conformist.
Marked by a notable lack of originality and creativity, an absence of genuine artistic talent, and carefully maintained escape routes so that she can give up the game when it stops being convenient.
Marked by a notable lack of originality and creativity, an absence of genuine artistic talent, and carefully maintained escape routes so that she can give up the game when it stops being convenient.
It costs her a lot of money to look so down-and-out." "Yeah, fauxhemianism is an expensive lifestyle.
by DancingKali March 24, 2011
That ever-expanding collection of sexual minorities that identify themselves with initialisms or acronyms that are more or less completely opaque to the uninitiated.
Includes, principally, the LGBT spectrum (LGBTQIQGQASA...) and the kink spectrum (BDSM, CBT, D/s, etc.)
Includes, principally, the LGBT spectrum (LGBTQIQGQASA...) and the kink spectrum (BDSM, CBT, D/s, etc.)
Quinn was an asexual lesbian hermaphrodite, and a submissive masochist -- and therefore didn't swim in the alphabet soup, but dived in it.
by DancingKali June 01, 2011
A particular cinematic genre, characteristic of but not limited to the Lifetime Network, a/k/a "Television for Women who Conform to our Distorted Stereotype of our Target Demographic".
An extremely ominous phrase, "Lifetime Original Movie" heralds the advent of extreme tear-jerky melodrama, much gratuitous violence against (upper-middle-class white) women, and an unsubtle implication that men exist only to harm and exploit women.
The phrase can also refer to real-life versions of similar over-the-top pseudofeminist melodrama.
An extremely ominous phrase, "Lifetime Original Movie" heralds the advent of extreme tear-jerky melodrama, much gratuitous violence against (upper-middle-class white) women, and an unsubtle implication that men exist only to harm and exploit women.
The phrase can also refer to real-life versions of similar over-the-top pseudofeminist melodrama.
by DancingKali March 24, 2011
The sudden 180-degree whiplash that the typical female teen pop star undergoes at a certain magical age. Her public/stage persona, until this time, accentuated her virginity, purity, and innocence. Suddenly, Daddy's little girl morphs into PowerSlut Girl, and her stage persona and performance incorporate pole-dancing, nearly transparent clothing, exaggerated sexuality, and raunchy language and content.
The Age 18 About-Face can be avoided by a singer who has genuine talent and is something more than a music-industry manufactured product, but realistically, how many female teenage pop singers fill that bill?
The Age 18 About-Face can be avoided by a singer who has genuine talent and is something more than a music-industry manufactured product, but realistically, how many female teenage pop singers fill that bill?
You know J. Random Teenie-Singer, that blonde Momon purity queen whose hymen seems to be worshiped by half the music industry? Yeah, there are a lot of middle-aged men slavering for a year from now when she pulls her Age 18 About-Face.
by DancingKali April 11, 2011
When you see a girl walking around with seven ponytails, each one in a different completely unnatural colour, standard-issue piercings in all the standard-issue places, and standard-issue tattoos all over the place ... in an outfit of that special over-the-top gothic style that marks someone who's trying way too hard ... and who has obviously sunk many hours of time, many thousands of dollars, and her future prospects for a career outside the sex industry into looking like a bizarre species of camwhore, odds are she holds a diploma from this fine institution.
Wow! Another proud graduate of the Suicide Girls Academy of Style!" "Shit, doesn't she know that even the Suicide Girls don't wear that crap on the street?
by DancingKali March 24, 2011