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[-] blight@hexbear.net 81 points 5 months ago

please educate me what "brick" means here

[-] frogloom@hexbear.net 93 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

brick is also used as an insult in drag, i.e. “she looks like a total brick. her makeup and outfit are obviously terrible.”

but they meant it as in brick like in basketball as to miss a shot, i.e “you totally bricked that shot, you scrub”

[-] MorelaakIsBack@hexbear.net 77 points 5 months ago

to further explain: it specifically hails from street ball courts, often wedged between urban apartment buildings, which were often brick buildings. "bricking" is shooting a shot so wild as to miss the backboard completely and hit the brick building behind the court.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

I always thought it was because the shot was thrown like a brick, meaning with a poor arc to the basket. The ball can't make it through the hoop easily without a high arc on the shot.

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 63 points 5 months ago

Can people stop making up new words! My decrepit 30 something ass can't handle it anymore!

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 53 points 5 months ago

Both of these usages of "brick" are more than 30 years old...

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

I was going to say being 30 years old puts you about as squarely as you could be in the target demo for yelling "brick" at a bad basketball shot

[-] davel@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’m way older than that and didn’t know either one. Is antisportsball male a gender?

[-] HexBroke@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Basketball was never strongly male coded in my youth in my country so you're welcome here

You will have to become this man, however

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Hes got a dog and a home made El Camino. Sign me up.

[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Sinny rizz, cousin. If you don’t have the sauce to fly don’t buy your ticket on TripAdvisor, my gangster disciple.

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

And it will happen to you!

[-] TeddyKila@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago
[-] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

im going to start a motion banning all comments that contain those words

[-] HexBroke@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Damn kids don't even know about ski-bi-dibby-dib yo-da-dub-dub, yo-da-dub

[-] Cummunism@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

HexBear, always teaching me stuff i definitely did not know. I thought it was a joke about mansplaining.

[-] gramathy@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

That’s what I thought too lol

Like, toxic masculinity resulting in gender affirmation

[-] LemonGrease@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

I just learned I am a brick darn

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

it's okay, as long as you keep showing up to the court and keep practicing your free throws, you'll see improvement.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

a brick is a trans woman who doesn't pass*, but he meant it in the basketball sense as in "you fucked up that shot"

*primarily used by self hating trans women in ny experience, so it makes sense that he wouldn't know it

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

a brick is a trans woman who doesn't pass*

Changing my name to Attila the Brick for the next 18 months

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 months ago

Oh goodness, I didn’t know either and thought it must have been something to do with Stonewall.

Now I can’t decide which interpretation is worse.

[-] TGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago
[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Now days it's being used as an insult to TERF women. They say they have trouble passing, many such cases.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 53 points 5 months ago

I don't know either the basketball or the traphobic term 😭. Too much of a himbo to have any xontext for this

[-] Sinistar@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"I'm not homophobic, I'm just a hater" energy.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

Gender-affirming mansplaining?

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

a brick is a trans woman who doesn't pass*, so he was apologizing and explaining that that wasn't what he meant. idk if that's mansplaining?

*primarily used by self hating trans women in ny experience, so it makes sense that he wouldn't know it

[-] Cummunism@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

all i had to do was scroll a little bit further to see that someone thought the same thing I did.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

Never heard the term brick. Learned a new thing.

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

alzaidi-three-pointer "BRICK CIT—"

meow-knife-trans

ohnoes "NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

just realized tttt terms came from somewhere. or did they develop in parallel like carcinisation

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