I've been called a number of slurs throughout my life and dealt with countless personal insults, but truly no word, no phrase, no lengthy paragraph has ever hurt me to the extent that being called "completely swagless" by my teenage brother has
To be clear, this is good and proper. I think that all adults should appear totally fucking lame to teenagers and this is the way of things, and if you find yourself impressing high schoolers as an adult then something has gone horribly wrong.
And yet. To be called not merely swagless but completely so by my own kith and kin. It is the right way, but it is a way which stings























