Meaning of failson | Babel Free

Definitions

An incompetent, unsuccessful middle- or upper-class man who is protected from economic duress by his family's wealth or influence.

Internet, derogatory

Examples

“Coordinate term: faildaughter”

“This is the thread for Failsons. We are disappointments to our families, burdens on societies, and NOT jealous of our older sibling's nice houses and luxury automobiles.”

“That manifests itself differently in different classes and geographic areas. For white, middle-class, male, useless people—who have just enough family context to not be crushed by poverty—they become failsons.”

“But that is how it went for family failsons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday.”

“Zimbabwe’s people suffer while the spoiled failsons of the elite floss on the ’gram.”

“[T]he white nationalism of internet failsons is like the allegiance to an imaginary caliphate that motivated the terrorists whose depredations helped get Trump elected in the first place. It's often just a carapace, a flag of convenience, a performance for the vast TV-and-online audience that now attends these grisly spectacles, with a malignant narcissism and nihilism underneath.”

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