What is a VSCO girl? OK, boomer. A parents' dictionary to teen slang words, sksksksksk - USA TODAY

What is a VSCO girl? OK, boomer. A parents' dictionary to teen slang words, sksksksksk - USA TODAY
Polygraph Tests Are Notoriously Unreliable. They're Even Worse in Cases of Sexual Assault. - Mother Jones
Trump Has Considered Ordering Staffers to Take Polygraph Tests: Report - The Daily Beast
Is Foresight 2020? Employers Confront New Laws Taking Effect in the New Year - JD Supra

Posted: 15 Nov 2019 12:00 AM PST

Is being 'sus' a good thing? What about 'thirsty'? These teens talk us through the words and slang your teens may be using. Jennifer Jolly, special for USA TODAY

If you clicked on this story, it's probably because you have no idea what your kids are saying.

Hi! Welcome to the club.

Thanks to the internet – mostly TikTok, let's be real – new slang words and phrases are popping up all the time, making it hard to have a conversation with your offspring.

A sample conversation with a teen: "Oh, that VSCO girl? She's definitely not in my squad. But I stan her swagger even though those scrunchies are trash. Hundo P. OK, boomer?"

Translation: A trendy girl is not in your child's group of friends, but she appreciates her confidence even though her big ponytail holders are terrible. She 100% thinks that, don't you understand, you old, out-of-touch mom?

Got it?

Here's a list of teen slang terms and their definitions. Hopefully it'll help you better understand what your kids are saying.

VSCO girl

Ah, the VSCO girls. You'll recognize these girls if they have scrunchies in their hair, sip out of Hydroflask water bottles and wear oversized sweatshirts. The term "VSCO" comes from the camera app VSCO. There are many explainers if you'd like to go more in-depth with the term, which has turned into a full-fledged meme.

sksksk

VSCO girls can often be heard saying "sksksk," to the confusion of many. Yes, this is the sound you make when you hit lots of keys at once on your keyboard. Buzzfeed notes this term didn't begin with the VSCO girls but started in the black community (as does much viral online chatter).

And I oop

Still with us? Drag queen Jasmine Masters said "and I oop" in a viral video clip, which sent the internet (and yes, eventually, the VSCO girl section of the internet) into a tizzy.

You can say "and I oop" when someone says something unexpected or provocative.

OK, boomer

Gen Z and millennials are retaliating against the baby boomers' perception of them with the phrase, "OK, boomer." When someone responds to someone or something with "OK, boomer," they are basically calling that thing old, out-of-touch and resistant to change. "Boomer" catchphrases have existed for some time, but "OK, boomer" has gained traction through TikTok.

More: Radio host schooled after comparing 'boomer' to N-word; Dictionary.com, more on Twitter react

Karen

Poor Karen. She's right up there with Felicia. A "Karen" is typically used to refer to an entitled mom, who can be a bit irritating with her frequent requests to "talk to the manager." She may also have a giant bob haircut and drive a Volvo.

Bruh

Generally used to start off a story. You can call anyone a bruh but should probably reserve it to friends and not, say, a supervisor. For example: "Bruh, you won't believe what just happened to me."

Chad

These days, a Chad would be a hyper-masculine and overtly sexual young man.

Sis

Sis can be used in multiple ways. If someone asks you what happened and you respond with "Sis," it means there's a whole lot of drama that unfolded and there's a whole lot more to the story. "Sis" can also be used as a term of endearment.

Stan

A stan is a fan. But like a super-obsessed fan. It originated from Eminem's music video for "Stan" where an obsessive fan by the name of Stan (look at that) commits suicide after sending multiple unanswered fan letters to the rapper.

Trash

Garbáge. Horriblé. Used to refer to something that is absolutely unacceptable because it's all-around terrible. Like when you tell your friends your boyfriend is celebrating Valentine's Day on Feb. 15 because he has to "work" on Feb. 14. Yeah sis, that man is trash.

Goals

Similar to the literal meaning of goals. When you see something you want or aspire to be like, you say "goals." Like when Beyoncé and Jay-Z closed down the Louvre for a music video. Goals. Often, you'll find a word in front of it like "couple goals." Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are "couple goals."

Squad

The people you hang out with, like your family or your close group of friends. These are your "ride or die" kind of friends. If you see a squad that you admire or want to have, that's "squad goals."

Hundo P

Short for "hundred percent." Absolutely, for sure, you are definitely confirming that thing 100%. Want to go to Costco for free sample day? Hundo P.

Savage

Savage is when someone does or says something completely outrageous and doesn't fear the repercussions or consequences of their actions. For example, if you told your friend you wanted the last cookie out of the cookie jar and then they took it and ate it right in front you, that's savage.

Fire

In this case, fire is good. It means great, amazing, wonderful, all the good things. If you go over to your grandmother's house and she makes that sweet potato pie you like so much, you can say, "Thanks grams! This pie is FIRE!" The fire emoji can work too.

Also used to compliment outfits, hair, glowing skin and, of course, food.

Sorry to this man

In a Vanity Fair video featuring a polygraph test, Keke Palmer was asked about former Vice President Dick Cheney in relation to her time on the TV series "True Jackson, VP." When the interviewer presented her with a photograph of him, she said she didn't know who he was and that if he came up to her on the street, she wouldn't know a thing. "Sorry to this man," she said, pushing the photo back. And a meme was born.

"Sorry to this man" is said when you don't know who a person is (either because you genuinely don't know who they are or are pretending not to know them in a way to diminish their existence).

Same

People say "same" in response to things they have in common with someone. You are putting up your Christmas decorations early and don't care what anyone else thinks? Same. But it can also be used sarcastically. For example, if you tell a friend, "OMG guys, Justin proposed," they might respond with "same" to mock your happiness.

A mood

"Mood" is similar to "same" except that it is a full-body relatable feeling. Let's set the scene: There is snow on the ground and it's 9 degrees outside. Scrolling Facebook, you see a photo of a cat wrapped up tight in a fuzzy blanket with just his nose sticking out. Mood.

Yasss

Either said in strong agreement to something or to hype someone up. When one of your friends posts a photo on Instagram looking extra hot, it is appropriate and even encouraged to comment "yassss!"

Or when someone says something you really agree with because it spoke to your soul, you can say "yasss!"

I'm dead

The person saying this is not actually dead. This phrase is used in response to something that's so hilarious it has you figuratively dying from laughter. Also used in place of physically laughing.

V

Very. That's it. That's all you really need to know. "V" literally is short for "very," providing emphasis to any statement. That "unicorn dog?" He's V cute. See also: "p," short for "pretty."

Chill

"Chill" can mean, well, a lot. If someone tells you to "chill," it means you need to calm down a la the Taylor Swift single. If someone invites you to "chill," that means they're asking you to hang out. If someone asks you to "Netflix and chill," that means they're asking you to "watch a movie" – which will undoubtedly lead to sex. Context matters.

Yeet

There's creative variety with this word. It can mean to throw something, said in excitement, in agreement and can also be a dance move. Take your pick. Either way, don't yeet your baby like the woman here.

Gucci

Not your mother's designer handbag. This basically just means some variation of "good." Can be used in multiple ways: Let's say Karen brought a casserole over but she accidentally dumped it on your white carpet and after repeatedly apologizing she can tell you're still a little irritated. Karen may ask if you're OK, and because you don't want to create any more tension, you can say, "I'm gucci" or say, "It's all gucci."

Woke

This has nothing to do with sleep – in the literal sense. Being "woke" means to be socially conscious and aware of racial, gender and myriad injustices.

Shade

Shade is usually thrown, meaning you'll most commonly hear it in a sentence like, "He threw shade." But it can also be used like, "Why are you so shady?" To throw shade means to make an underhanded critical remark toward someone.

Bet

Bet is used when you're in agreement with something. If someone makes plans and you say "bet," that means you are confirming said plan.

No cap

This basically means no lie. When someone adds "no cap" to a sentence, it serves as a statement that they're not lying. It can also be used as the converse "cappin,'" which means lying. "Why you cappin'?" is asking someone why they're lying.

Tea

There are multiple ways to have your tea. You can sip it, or you can spill it. If you're "sipping your tea," it means that you're minding your own business – basically side-eyeing the situation and keeping it moving. If you're "spilling tea" or "having tea," that means you have some gossip you're about to share.

Eboy or egirl

The internet says these are active internet users, often stereotyped has having an "emo," punk-rock style. The terms seem to be gaining on TikTok.

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Polygraph Tests Are Notoriously Unreliable. They're Even Worse in Cases of Sexual Assault. - Mother Jones

Posted: 05 Apr 2019 12:00 AM PDT

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Last Friday, as the two women who have accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault prepared to go on CBS This Morning and recount their stories to anchor Gayle King, Fairfax was traveling to a Washington, DC, law office to sit down with a very different type of interviewer: polygraph examiner Jerry Hanafin.

Hanafin, a retired FBI agent, had administered a polygraph test last fall to Christine Blasey Ford, who had just accused then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of assaulting her. Those results appeared to support her case. But this time, with Fairfax, Hanafin was giving the exam to someone on the other side of a sexual violence allegation.

His report, obtained by CBS and published Wednesday, concluded that Fairfax's physiological indicators—such as perspiration, breathing, and heart rate—were "not indicative of deception" when he denied engaging in "non-consensual sexual activity" with either of his accusers, Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson. Fairfax, for his part, seems to have taken the results as an exoneration: "I feel so strongly regarding my innocence that I submitted myself to polygraph tests for each of the accusations against me," he said in a statement to CBS. "I passed those tests. I did not assault either of my accusers."

But what does the polygraph exam—a controversial technique whose results are typically not admissible in court—really tell us about Fairfax's responsibility for the alleged sexual assaults? According to Leonard Saxe, a social psychologist at Brandeis University who has studied the accuracy of polygraphs for decades and led a congressional study on their efficacy in the 1980s, the exam is basically useless in determining if someone is telling the truth. "The test is just not supported by either theory or data," Saxe argues. "Somebody who lies, maybe they sweat a lot. They may look away, and so on. But the other possibility is also true. If you're arrested for some serious crime, if your life is on the line, you may be nervous, you may be sweating just because you're concerned about being truthful."

That's the crux of most criticisms of polygraph exams (and there are many): that they measure signs of nervousness, and being nervous can result from any of dozens of indistinguishable factors—guilt, yes, but also fear that another kind of wrongdoing will be discovered, or even anxiety about having to take an exam considered by many to be junk science. "The lie detector is not a lie detector—it's a fear detector," Saxe says.

That's part of the reason sexual assault victim advocates have typically discouraged investigators from asking victims to take polygraphs: The physical reactions that may come along with discussing a traumatic event, like a sexual assault, can produce false indicators that the person being tested is lying, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. It's also the recommendation of the International Association of Chiefs of Police not to polygraph sexual assault victims, because it can alienate them and destroy their trust in police, lowering the odds of a successful investigation.

But on the other side, lie detector tests are perhaps even more flawed when used on those accused of sexual misconduct. Mary Koss, a public health professor at the University of Arizona who has studied sexual violence for decades, argues that polygraph exams are particularly ineffective in testing the truthfulness of a person accused of sexual assault because "most rapists, even those in prison, do not perceive what they did as rape no matter what others saw." She adds, "If you truly believe something to be true, even if it is a misperception, you can pass a polygraph."

Indeed, research shows that most offenders will not admit to "rape" or to "sexual assault," even at the same time as they cop to behavior that amounts to it. That's according to Kevin Swartout, a Georgia State professor of psychology, who studies perpetrators of sexual violence and the type of people most likely to commit those crimes. When Swartout surveys men about whether they've committed sexual violence, he has to carefully design his questions to account for this problem. "If you were to ask somebody, 'Did you penetrate someone's vagina with your penis when they did not want to?' They might say, 'Yeah, I did that, when I was in college,' or whatever."

But when you ask if they committed rape? As Swartout explains, "They'll say, 'Oh, no, no, I've never, I've never done anything like that.'" Once, he says, when he asked about 350 college men a similar series of questions, about 30 admitted to behavior that the FBI would label rape. But only one person openly said yes, he had committed rape.

The reason boils down to our tendency to give ourselves a pass when we're evaluating our own behavior, especially compared to others. Labels like "rapist," Swartout says, "carry a special meaning above and beyond their actual definition. It's basically the worst thing that you can be labeled." And the discrepancy between the facts and perpetrators' self-regard is exacerbated by rape myths—such as the belief that rape is usually a stranger-leaps-out-of-the-bushes situation—that reassure men who have committed sexual violence against a friend or intimate partner that they don't qualify as a perpetrator.

All of this gets murkier when the behavior in question involves a disagreement over consent, not the actual sexual behavior in question. According to Maia Christopher, executive director of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, some perpetrators may claim they didn't "coerce" or "force" anybody to have sex. "That may very well be true," she says, but in cases of statutory rape, for instance, "that doesn't change the fact that's sexual assault." Same goes when there's a lack of affirmative consent.

On the flip side, Dan Sosnowski, a former president of the American Polygraph Association who has been conducting polygraphs for 39 years, vociferously defends the accuracy of polygraphs, even in sexual assault cases—if they're administered by a good enough examiner. "There's an art and science of the interview," he says. "If something really, really happened, it's written to your memory. It's written to your hard drive. I just have to give you a way to access that."

He also estimates that about half of the sexual assault criminal defendants he has tested over the years, usually at the behest of their private defense attorneys, maintained their innocence in exams and passed the polygraph. (If they were telling the truth, that would mean his clients experienced an extraordinarily high rate of false criminal sexual assault accusations, which experts estimate happen in just 2 to 8 percent of cases.)

Yet even Sosnowski says there's not enough information in Hanafin's report on Fairfax's polygraph test to say the public should accept its results at face value. Of particular concern, he says, are the length and lack of specificity in the questions asked of Fairfax, including, "Did you engage in any non-consensual sexual activity with Vanessa?" as well as the same question regarding Watson. Fairfax answered "no" in both instances, but those are not useful questions, Sosnowski explains, unless the examiner has clearly defined "sexual activity" beforehand. A separate exam question, he says, should address the alleged lack of consent, like, "Did you have an express, complicit, consensual agreement?" Sosnowski adds, "We have to be very explicit when we cover those issues."

He also believes other questions asked of Fairfax, such as, "Was Vanessa crying at any time she was in your hotel room?" skirt the heart of the allegations against him, which in this case include alleged forced oral sex in his 2004 Democratic National Convention hotel room. Whether Tyson was crying, he explains, "doesn't address anything to do with any sexual contact."

There are other reasons to take a polygraph exam like Fairfax's with a grain of salt; for instance, people who have been asked repeatedly about a subject will have a more moderate emotional reaction to it, lessening the likelihood that a polygraph will detect an anomaly even if they're lying, Saxe says.

No matter how you read Fairfax's polygraph, it's far from the end of the road for the investigation into his conduct; the lieutenant governor himself is calling for further inquiry into both allegations against him. "Law enforcement authorities in Boston and Durham have demonstrated a sensitivity to those who wish to report a crime," he suggested in a statement to CBS. "A civil lawsuit as well would provide a forum for assessing the credibility of all parties." Putting the final determination of guilt in any sexual violence case in the hands of police is far from a perfect solution. Then again, neither is a polygraph. Some polygraph examiners who work with police can successfully use the exam to intimidate suspects into a confession, or into giving up information, according to Saxe. But in determining guilt or innocence, "it's not useful," he adds.

That said, polygraphs often have success on a different measure: pushing a favorable narrative with the public. For public figures like Fairfax, Saxe says, "just the fact that they were willing to take a polygraph may suggest to people they have nothing to hide—and they were being truthful."

Trump Has Considered Ordering Staffers to Take Polygraph Tests: Report - The Daily Beast

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 10:47 AM PDT

White House staffers have reportedly volunteered to take polygraph tests in order to prove their loyalty to President Trump in light of the firehose of leaks coming out of the administration. Staffers likely made the drastic offer because the president frequently mentions polygraphing his own staffers when the media reports on internal White House information, according to numerous former aides and officials. "He wanted to polygraph every employee in the building to unearth who it was who spoke to the press," a former official told Politico. That former official also noted that Trump tends to be particularly angered when he is certain that specific stories are true.

The dam of secrecy within the Trump administration burst almost instantaneously, and within the first months of his presidency, Trump reportedly became fixated on polygraphing staffers. The president was especially irate after reports on the intricacies of former FBI Director James Comey's firing, according to a former official. Since then, internal White House call transcripts, draft executive orders, and accounts of Oval Office infighting are routinely leaked to the press. Top aides have so far been successful at talking Trump out of issuing the lie detector tests, but multiple former officials said he continues to float the idea.

Read it at Politico

Is Foresight 2020? Employers Confront New Laws Taking Effect in the New Year - JD Supra

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"Session cookies" - These cookies only last as long as your online session, and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser (like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Safari).
"Persistent cookies" - These cookies stay on your computer or device after your browser has been closed and last for a time specified in the cookie. We use persistent cookies when we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session. For example, we use them to remember your preferences for the next time you visit.
"Web Beacons/Pixels" - Some of our web pages and emails may also contain small electronic images known as web beacons, clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs. These images are placed on a web page or email and typically work in conjunction with cookies to collect data. We use these images to identify our users and user behavior, such as counting the number of users who have visited a web page or acted upon one of our email digests.

JD Supra Cookies. We place our own cookies on your computer to track certain information about you while you are using our Website and Services. For example, we place a session cookie on your computer each time you visit our Website. We use these cookies to allow you to log-in to your subscriber account. In addition, through these cookies we are able to collect information about how you use the Website, including what browser you may be using, your IP address, and the URL address you came from upon visiting our Website and the URL you next visit (even if those URLs are not on our Website). We also utilize email web beacons to monitor whether our emails are being delivered and read. We also use these tools to help deliver reader analytics to our authors to give them insight into their readership and help them to improve their content, so that it is most useful for our users.

Analytics/Performance Cookies. JD Supra also uses the following analytic tools to help us analyze the performance of our Website and Services as well as how visitors use our Website and Services:

HubSpot - For more information about HubSpot cookies, please visit legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy.
New Relic - For more information on New Relic cookies, please visit www.newrelic.com/privacy.
Google Analytics - For more information on Google Analytics cookies, visit www.google.com/policies. To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This will allow you to download and install a Google Analytics cookie-free web browser.

Facebook, Twitter and other Social Network Cookies. Our content pages allow you to share content appearing on our Website and Services to your social media accounts through the "Like," "Tweet," or similar buttons displayed on such pages. To accomplish this Service, we embed code that such third party social networks provide and that we do not control. These buttons know that you are logged in to your social network account and therefore such social networks could also know that you are viewing the JD Supra Website.

Controlling and Deleting Cookies

If you would like to change how a browser uses cookies, including blocking or deleting cookies from the JD Supra Website and Services you can do so by changing the settings in your web browser. To control cookies, most browsers allow you to either accept or reject all cookies, only accept certain types of cookies, or prompt you every time a site wishes to save a cookie. It's also easy to delete cookies that are already saved on your device by a browser.

The processes for controlling and deleting cookies vary depending on which browser you use. To find out how to do so with a particular browser, you can use your browser's "Help" function or alternatively, you can visit http://www.aboutcookies.org which explains, step-by-step, how to control and delete cookies in most browsers.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this cookie policy and our Privacy Policy from time-to-time, particularly as technology changes. You can always check this page for the latest version. We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.

Contacting JD Supra

If you have any questions about how we use cookies and other tracking technologies, please contact us at: privacy@jdsupra.com.