{"id":6725,"date":"2012-09-06T23:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T04:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2012-09-08T07:34:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T12:34:16","slug":"nicknames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/nicknames\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicknames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has always been difficult for people to come up with a nickname for me.  One friend in high school called me Paris, short for G. Laden Paris, which I never quite understood.  The Efe Pygmies called me Simon.  Which I never quite understood.  Lately many of us Progressive or Feminist bloggers have been routinely denigrated by worthless scum trolling drekazoids and nicknames have been involved, such as &#8216;Twatson&#8217; for Rebecca Watson.  My winged monkey nickname became Osama bin Laden which is totally stupid because it is just some dead guy&#8217;s name.  <\/p>\n<p>There are people who unilaterally decide to call me &#8216;Greggy&#8217; when they want to be disrespectful, and I do find that annoying, but for reasons I never quite understood.  I do know, though, that when I become &#8216;Greggy&#8217; (or &#8216;Greggie&#8217;), the nicknamer from then on on is conversing alone. <\/p>\n<p>But that was then and this is now.  Those days of paucity in cleverness are gone, because one of my detractors has finally hit on a nickname I can live with.  The term is, I am told, used in a hate video directed at me, that I&#8217;ve not seen (nor will I).  In this production by a misogynist men&#8217;s rights advocate (most of them are former teenage molesters or rapists now busy turning guilt into blame, I suspect) I am known as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;  Skep<del>Dick<\/del><em>Prick<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>I am Skep<del>Dick<\/del><em>Prick<\/em>.  Hear me roar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has always been difficult for people to come up with a nickname for me. One friend in high school called me Paris, short for G. Laden Paris, which I never quite understood. The Efe Pygmies called me Simon. Which I never quite understood. Lately many of us Progressive or Feminist bloggers have been routinely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/nicknames\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nicknames<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1Kt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6727,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}