My initial reaction is that a basic person is one that doesn’t really have anything extraordinary about them. Their lives are: wake up, go to work, come home, watch TV.
My initial reaction is that whoever said that doesn’t speak English as their native language, or at least not US English, because that phrase has no clearcut meaning.
That just has no realtionhip to my life at all. I can’t hang a speck of possible meaning on it.
I read the whole list, and the only tiny piece that applies is the granny panties. I do prefer cotton. These ladies have no way of knowing that about me though. I suppose it could be assumed by my otherwise comfort-oriented style.
Two ladies gossiping in that close-up evil manner who said this about me and then gasped and stopped talking when they saw me in the doorway. “That TruCelt is just a BASIC woman.”
I’ve heard it in context of “basic bitch.” From what I can gather, it’s a woman who’s basically incredibly, almost gleefully ordinary. Drab, bland, dull.
But … that’s essentially what slang is. We have tons of phrases that mean something completely different than what the words (individually or all together) indicate.
Pushing the envelope
Going postal
Going/quitting cold turkey.
And so on.
Of course they usually have their origins connected to some societal aspect or concept that makes sense upon explanation but isn’t immediately apparent based on the words themselves (like “going postal” based on the post office employee who shot up his workplace).
Interesting. I guess it’s like the female equivalent of a male Average Joe who’s obsessed with gadgets and sports talk radio and has a “man cave” (blech).
I’m a straight guy and when I was dating, I used to get frustrated about basically meeting the same woman over and over. They would freak out about the idea of stepping outside of their comfort bubble … which always seemed to revolve around some combination of Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Renaissance “Faires”, Rocky Horror Show, David Bowie, Robert Downey Jr., gay male culture, internet memes, etc. Thought it was just my weird luck - never realized there was actually a term for it!
Sorry, too much shorthand in my post. “This is not a common slang term; in fact I have never heard it said; it sounds like something a nonnative speaker would say because they got the slang half-wrong.”
The slang term is “basic bitch” not “basic woman”; they’re rude enough to insult her in earshot but too polite to insult her correctly?
To be clear, “going postal” is a slang phrase with a clearly understood meaning (“flipping out violently at work”) that arose in a certain context and is generally recognized within the culture of the US. Random shit people just made up on the spot is not slang. Until other people use the term its just some shit they said.
If someone wants to refer to someone flipping out at work and they say “he went completely grocery store” it has no meaning.
My initial reaction is that whoever said that doesn’t speak English as their native language, or at least not US English, because that phrase has no clearcut meaning.
