Meanings
comparative more stunning and brave · superlative most stunning and brave
- InternetderogatorysarcasticUsed to express disrespect, in particular to suggest someone (especially a transgender person) or something has been promoted as good but is actually bad.
Take the case of [...] a fifty-two-year-old transgender woman who raped two women before being sent to jail […] Stunning and brave!
2020 July 21, Rob Smith, Always a Soldier: Service, Sacrifice, and Coming Out as America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican, Post Hill Press, →ISBN2 more examples
Live your truth. Be like one of these stunning and brave heroes of oppression: HEROES. OF. OPPRESSION. Your heart will bleed for each of these brave lads and lasses—not to mention lxsses—who suffer at the hands of the patriarchy.
2021 November 2, Babylon Bee, The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 13The exact same rule applies to US President Joe Biden, who is forever exempt from such allegations. It doesn't matter that black people aren't the property of the left, nor does it matter that they can vote for whoever they choose in a free country, he was absolutely justified when he said, 'If you are African American and you vote for Donald Trump you ain't black.' Stunning and brave.
2022, Konstantin Kisin, An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN
Origin
From "Stunning and Brave", an episode of South Park that satirizes social justice activists and political correctness.
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