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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

reverse nepobaby? How does that work? His kid gave birth to him and then hired him?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 122 points 3 months ago (3 children)

His son works for Netflix and got him a show.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 92 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] match@pawb.social 28 points 3 months ago

nepo reverse-baby, then

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

No it isn't, it is literally nonsense. There is no such thing as "reverse nepotism".

[–] mongo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes but he didn't say reverse nepotism he said reverse nepobaby as it wasn't the parent getting the child a job but the other way round. It's still nepotism but nepobaby is a more specific term.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The vast majority of the time, nepotism refers to a patent giving their children special privileges due to the power the parent has.

The word itself comes from from the Italian word for "nephew", because of a trend of "nephews" of popes getting special privileges (often, these were the popes' illegitimate sons).

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool. And the literal definition of nepotism is granting advantage, priviledge or friends to relatives or friends in an occupation or field. So it doesn't matter that it's being used for parent - children mostly when it covers all.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Narrator: They hated him for being right.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They hated him for being an insufferable pedant, more like.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I dunno man I spent a weird amount of time rolling that idea around in my head before even getting to the pedants comment.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Reverse nepotism is where your dad goes around to anywhere that might hire you and badmouths you until they won’t.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Nah I'm with this homie, reverse nepobaby is too made up. It's just regular nepotism. He's a nepot

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't that be "nepo daddy"

[–] mobius_slip@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago