Attempting to argue with someone who doesn't want to hear opposing arguments.
I ranted online about people I hate, and he started sealioning me so I just blocked him.
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Sealioning is a derogatory action or nomenclature used to identify and vilify those who request citations when citations weren't initially provided.
Person 1: Can you provide a link to your claims?
Person 2: Don't be sealioning me, you can look it up yourself!
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Female sea lions are know as cows
Male sea lions are called bulls
James: did you see that cow and bull, over there By the rocks
Boris: what, why would there be a cows in the sea, James?
James: not a cattle cow, a female sea lion and a male sea lion
Boris: why not just say sea lion or lioness
James: well, those are the official terms for a male or female sealion
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From Wikionary: "To intrude on a conversation with disingenuous questions in an attempt to engage in unwanted debate as a form of harassment."
From Macmillandictionary.com: "In an online conversation, repeatedly asking a person questions or making comments which suggest that you are interested in what they are talking about, but are actually intended to annoy them"
The reference is taken from "WONDERMARK: A Collabroation With The Dead" web comic #1062; "The Terrible Sea Lion"
"Becky is being a real Sealion, like, no one wants to debate her wack-ass and she won't take a hint."
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Special little shit with an aptitude for getting it's ass kicked.
Your such a flipping Sealion!
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A person you intend to or have hooked up with. This often becomes a one night stand
I am on the search for Sealions tonight. Boy do I need to get some!
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A word used for calling people out online who repeatedly target others with exhausting questions.
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A shady, made-up word that can be traced back to one text from the most exclusive university Harvard, within a country that has the death penalty, in order to divide activist circles across the English speaking world with its double meaning.
โSealionโ so happens to be an excellent excuse and reason for humiliating someone online. Performative activists need to create new words and labels for people, where if you only replaced these words with good old curse words, youโd be witnessing clear online harassment.
Person 1: โฆโ What proof do you have that Iโm speaking to you in bad faithโ?
Person 2: โโWeโ donโt have to prove anything, Iโm ending the discussion, this is โsealioningโ YOU โsealionโโ!
Person 1: โWhy are you making the point of calling me a โsealionโ when you can just block meโฆโ?
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