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What are you going to put on your resume - dumbass?
— Red Forman • That '70s Show
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A question about a résumé becomes an insult rather than a request for useful information. The speaker places “dumbass” where an achievement or qualification might be expected. That substitution turns the language of presenting oneself favourably into a pointed way of questioning someone’s competence.
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