me-too-ism
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]me-too-ism (countable and uncountable, plural me-too-isms)
- Alternative form of me-tooism
- 1964 April 9, Wayne Morse, “McNamara’s War in Vietnam”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 88th Congress, Second Session (United States Senate), volume 110, part 6, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7431, column 1:
- I believe [Dean] Rusk has abdicated. Rusk merely follows [Robert] McNamara. It is McNamara who is calling the shots in South Vietnam. [...] The South Vietnamese program is McNamara's program. I am not interested in Rusk's "me-too-isms" in regard to it.
- 1983, The Bulletin:
- On each occasion, trying to distil an essential essence from all the me-too-isms which make every major insurance broker seem alike.
- 1988 September 27, W. Mitchell (witness), Americans with Disabilities Act of 1988: Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Handicapped of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, and the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2345 to Establish a Clear and Comprehensive Prohibition of Discrimination on the Basis of Handicap […] (Serial No. 104), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Publishing Office, published 1989, →OCLC, page 83:
- But I would like to say to you that, while the 1970’s were very much the age of the me-too-ism, of I’ve got mine, of all of the conflicts in this country, and while the 1980’s are very much an era of great change in our society, with new technologies and new opportunities, the 1990’s will be the era of creativity.
- 1995, Victor Newman, “Generate Solutions”, in Made-to-measure Problem-solving, paperback edition, Aldershot, Hampshire, Brookfield, Vt.: Gower Publishing, published 1997, →ISBN, part III (The Problem-solving Process), page 83:
- [T]he solutions were almost exclusively the product of half-understood ‘me-too-isms’ based upon what they felt the competition were doing.
- 2006, Oleg Grabar, “On the Universality of the History of Art”, in Islamic Art and Beyond (Constructing the Study of Islamic Art; III; Variorum Collected Studies; CS809), Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Theory of Art), page 33:
- On the other hand, the growth of national consciousness, the awareness of a specific cultural and aesthetic past, a new sensitivity to the individual’s own visual experience, and, in many years, an active contemporary artistic creativity have created a world that can no longer be satisfied with aesthetic or critical me-too-ism.
- 2020, Louise Porter, “Listening to Children”, in Young Children’s Behaviour: Guidance Approaches for Early Childhood Educators, 4th edition, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 218:
- Distracting, diverting, trivialising, story telling, one-upping and ‘me-too’-isms make light of children’s problems and imply that if something is too hard, we should avoid it.