Nick Offerman was a winner at the Spirit Awards and used his acceptance speech to take aim at the homophobic backlash to "The Last of Us."
  • odelik@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    When did “a Chad” become a positive term? From my experince growing up it was a mid-west term for rich city kids, and then later on the internet it became a red piller/incel term for “Alpha male”.

    Is this one of those “taking it back” and owning it things to take power away from red pillers & incels?

    Nick Offerman:

    I’ve enjoyed the hell out of his content. I loved it when Adam Savage This Old House did a shop tour with him. I’ve also listened to his Twain’s Feast audiobook and enjoyed the hell out of that. The historical journey through American regional cuisine was amazing. And how much we’ve actually lost is even more amazing.

    • kyle@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      I think it’s just more ironic than “taking it back”. I don’t think anyone worth respecting would call themselves “a Chad”.

      So in context for this, a dude doubling down on his gay love story is certainly not what an incel would attribute to “a Chad”, but the rest of us could look at Nick Offerman and say “damn, I respect the hell out of that guy, what a Chad”.