In my experience, when used unironically: “skill issue” is a psychological projection phrase used by people who don’t want to put any effort into helping others with [insert thing they’re calling a skill issue].
The real skill issue, in other words, is that they suck at being helpful to others with XYZ issue. But rather than letting that exist in their psyche as part of them and hurting their ego, they put it onto the other person as being that other person’s fault.
For context, I’ve encountered this phrase before in the most mundane of situations like “person wanting help with how to use a product and having complaints about how the product works.” Situations where those who help are often volunteers and face 0 obligation or moralizing to urge them to help. And still you get the sort of people who will go out of their way to call it a skill issue rather than, you know, just not saying anything if they don’t want to help.
In my experience, when used unironically: “skill issue” is a psychological projection phrase used by people who don’t want to put any effort into helping others with [insert thing they’re calling a skill issue].
The real skill issue, in other words, is that they suck at being helpful to others with XYZ issue. But rather than letting that exist in their psyche as part of them and hurting their ego, they put it onto the other person as being that other person’s fault.
For context, I’ve encountered this phrase before in the most mundane of situations like “person wanting help with how to use a product and having complaints about how the product works.” Situations where those who help are often volunteers and face 0 obligation or moralizing to urge them to help. And still you get the sort of people who will go out of their way to call it a skill issue rather than, you know, just not saying anything if they don’t want to help.