New York Times pride-themed article by gay pilot on the importance of travel in his life

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I cannot take it anymore. I loathe the word "Folks" so fucking much. I don't know why it has become so overused over the last few years, but it makes me feel incredibly homicidal.

I don't just want to kill the people who use it, I want them to SUFFER as they die. I want to tie them down and slit their throats with a cocktail pick. Just poking hole after hole until their throat is slit.

I want to cut off their fingers and toes, one knuckle at a time.

I want to sew their mouth shut so that they starve to death.

At least it wasn't "folx."

r2 I think it's time for your nap!

The folks thing was a little off putting, but it didn't drive me to the end of my wits, R2.

I take it you don't travel much? Or at least to places where you understand the language?

"Folks"

People?

Folks is a term used to describe the people of a community or culture—as in “folklore.” I understand the unsavory connection to “Volks,” as the Nazis drew in folklore to spark their racist nationalism, but it otherwise seems pretty harmless and has the advantage of being inclusive. Does it enrage you in Du Bois’ “The Souls of Black Folk? I do think “folx” is stupid in the way that “Latinx” is—I don’t know anyone from a Spanish-speaking culture or country who uses it—and it’s already being replaced by “Latine,” which at least end in a typically non-gendered vowel and is therefore at least analogous to Latino and Latina.

Imagine if the New York Times published an article describing black people as "N-word Folks".

I think people evolved into folks in 2017. We need a Darwin to explain why this happened.

Thanks for that lovely article, OP.

Some of you folks just need to get laid.

[quote]A Gay Pilot Reflects on What Travel Means to Queer Folks:

I’m not queer, I’m gay. Queer implies something is off, wrong, or not proper.

I am none of those things.

Is used to a have a gorgeous gay pilot fuck buddy.

Just my 2 cents

There is nothing inherently wrong with the word folks, but it has been so overused by performative twitter activists that I just can't stand it anymore.

In the late 90s I experienced the same thing with the words proactive and synergy. They are both perfectly cromulent words, but businesses latched onto them as buzzwords, and brought them into every conversation, whether they were appropriate or not.

In the end, hearing either word made me want to lock the user into a lucite box full of angry wolverines.

Rich Folks Smoke Dokes

The comments section on this article in The NY Times reads like DL. Honestly, the most ingesting thing in the NYTimes lately is the comments section. Like a left wing - better educated - version of Breitbart.

But a lovely story that had me reminiscing about my first travels as a gayby and how it opened my eyes to the world and it’s possibilities - which none of my straight siblings bothered to do.

[quote] opened my eyes to the world and it’s possibilities

Oh, dear!

Author isn't hot so my interest is limited.