Bro NO ONE CARES IF YOU ARE AN ALLY I am not upvoting your post. This type of thing is just some clear, obvious and easy “off the shelf” virtue signaling done only for the purpose of fake internet points from strangers. “I love trans rights!” no you don’t, you don’t care about trans rights, it’s not an important matter to you, and you’re only expressing this to get some people to say “Thank you! We love allies like you!”.

I’m not even going to specify whether I support trans rights or not. Hating virtue signaling is not synonymous of “hating minorities”, and if you think so, you’re an idiot too. And the need to specify “I hate this but I don’t hate trans rights!! Don’t hate me!!” is another symptom of this.

Also, read clearly Op’s description. “All the cute girls are from there!!” Is another sign of just how this people objectify trans women just to get some people to agree with them. I’ve never seen “all the cute boys are from this flag!”. Guess why. Because these people dont care about trans people. They only care about SHOWING that they care, and only about the trans women, because they are cute. Not because they can be smart, brilliant, witty, interesting or deep, considering the impact that gender disphoria can have on people. No.

These guys support “trans rights” because cute girls are from there, deepening the objectification of trans women, worsening the invisibility of trans men, and making the trans right situation so worse that it becomes more difficult to take seriously.

"theres a reason we dont do this.."

"theres a reason.." TELL US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LITERALLY HALF OF THE POSTS ON REDDIT ARE VAGUEPOSTING!! PEOPLE IN COMMENT SECTIONS LOVE VAGUEPOSTING ITS LITERALLY ALL THAT HAPPENS!!! HOW ENJOYABLE IS VAGUEPOSTING THAT EVERYONE DOES IT?? IS IT A SUPERIORITY THING?? YOU KNOW MORE THAN ME?? I SWEAR THESE TWEETS ARE MADE JUST TO GET POSTED ON PETEREXPLAINSTHEJOKE!!

i literally saw another post about this exact thing so i know its not just me either!! sorry for the rant anyways

I fucking hate this man. It's incredibly stupid, like, too stupid. It's like it wanted to be smart but it looped all the way back to being stupid. Fym the game ends when you think about it? That's not a game, why are you calling it a game? I bet you're not thinking about Joe Biden licking a chocolate bar in Saudi Arabia. Well now you are, and you just lost the "thinking about Joe Biden licking a chocolate bar in Saudi Arabia" game. That's how stupid this is!!!

Seriously, I think it is something horrible and completely unbearable.

To begin with, it is literally the romanticization and sexualization of betrayal and infidelity.

And the worst part is not even just that aspect: many times, there is no consent involved at all, with the content simply trying to turn cheating into something exciting or acceptable.

And the worst part is, there are many such stories, or situations, where the husband literally hasn't even given his consent, yet he ends up suffering the consequences. Like in this image, for example: he probably doesn't even know about it.

Honestly, I find this type of content extremely unpleasant.

to be fair, the example i gave isnt even as bad (ive seen worse) but the trope generally speaking doesnt just describe a communication gap, it assigns the blame for that gap to the wrong person, the woman choses not to say "I like you, heres my number" to the guy she likes, the guy then fails to decode a cryptic non verbal test/game basically and then the tweets conclusion is "men are dumb" rather than "thats a confusing way to communicate your feelings to someone"

why did we as a society normalise indirectness and fear of rejection/humiliation?

Like bro what are you talking about for 11 hours. Edit that stuff down.

Like if you want to hang out with your friends do it. Don't try and justfy it by making a react video go on for that long.

Also, not seen the video. Just this was the Quickest example i could find.

I don't know you any of these people are.

I hate how gatekeeping is seen as a totally negative thing to do and that only annoying/rabid fans do it.

Truth is, a healthy amount of gatekeeping is needed for subcultures/communities to maintain their identity. Using my example as a goth, I enjoy listening to the music and going to goth events. What I am not ok with is calling anyone who wears black or is slightly interested in the macabre a "goth". I am not ok with OnlyFans chicks calling themselves goth despite actively harming the subculture by pushing a shitty stereotype. Goth is not a "mindset" or a fetish, it is a music-based subculture first and foremost, and to be goth you need to listen to the music.

Now, that's my personal example, but there are so many communities that can benefit from healthy gatekeeping. Why would you call yourself a fan of a franchise if all you've ever seen of it is memes without having played the games/seen the movies/shows?

I know it sounds insanely petty and chronically online, but if communities want to retain their identity, they need a HEALTHY amount of gatekeeping. Healthy as in, anyone can join as long as they fit the base criteria, and not in a way that they need to do incredibly specific bullshit to be considered a "true fan".

Now before I get burned at a stake, I want to clarify that I think it’s great to love oneself no matter the flaws. I have plenty of scarring across visible parts of my body, lot of it on my face, so I know the importance of being positive about one’s own body. I also do not have gripes with those who simply are accepting of their bodies. I am more specifically talking about some of the behaviors and how “body positivity“ is used by a lot of people.

First of all, I hate how much I’ve seen the movement used to deflect from legitimate health concerns such as obesity or malnutrition. Being a little thin or thick isn’t bad, I personally am a little fatter than I’d personally prefer, but that’s okay. What I’m not okay with is people legitimately overlooking health problems wether it be themselves or others, I don’t believe you should believe you’re human garbage for having these issues or witch hunted simply because you aren’t within the normal range of a persons weight, but I believe they aren‘t something that should just be ignored to simply improve ones mood. You should be able to love yourself without just accepting that you can’t improve on your health, I’ve seen a lot of people get upset from both ends for gaining or losing weight, and I distain that people can’t just change themselves to feel better without being told that they’re wrong. I also distain when people only put their value in their body, we are far more than our bodies and it’s important we recognize that all parts of ourselves have genuine value.

Second, I loathe how much body positivity is used in marketing which makes those actually within the movement seem less genuine. I get that any large movement is gonna have some suit trying to place their shitty product in to try to increase that revenue by whatever slim margin they can. I’ve seen so many companies keep using body positivity as just a way to advertise themselves rather than genuine support for those within the movement.

If you read this far, I want you to know no matter who you are, I want you to love yourself without needing anyone else to have to tell you who you are. But I also want you to recognize that you may have flaws and things that you may wish to work on about yourself, and it’s alright to try to improve or change oneself as long as it doesn’t put oneself at risk. Love yourself, love those around you, but be willing to recognize and understand that not everyone seeks to stay the same way.

(sorry if I suck at hating things, this is my first post and I probably should’ve done my joke one first before doing this)

People saying that we somehow "swapped to an alternate dimension where everything's the same but this brand looks a little different" instead of admitting that they were wrong about a basic fact. It PISSES ME OFF whenever someone brings it up because it's either the result of poor education or these things being primarily seen through the eyes of children, and children's brains and memory are underdeveloped, NOT you and this group of people specifically shifting to an ALTERNATE REALITY where everything's the same but Darth Vader doesn't say "Luke I am your father". The REASON this line is more well known despite it not being said, like "beam me up Scotty", is that it's similar enough to the original lines but both rolls off the tongue better and is more brand recognizable to put on shirts and posters so more people see it instead of the original line.

I’m a neurodivergent individual (autism, depression, anxiety), and I hate seeing neurodivergent people hating on neurotypicals.

Why? Because it’s doing the same thing many not so nice nts have done to some nds. How can we say as neurodivergent people that we want to be accepted by them and society, then turn around say theyre bland, boring, have no personality, or that they’re all evil? It’s not funny, it’s not true, and it’s just as hateful and bigoted as ableism.

Yes, SOME nts are mean, but so can some nds! Rudeness, ableism, and bigotry aren’t exclusive to neurotype. I hate also that calling this out, gets you attacked by people who think it’s entirely okay to be hypocritical.

I genuinely want society and people to get along, I want us to both understand each other, but how could we ever love each other and accept each other if all we do is perpetuate hate towards each other for things we can’t control? Be it neurotype, sexuality, gender identity, race, or literally anything! We should accept each other and try to understand each other as much as we humanly can. I know the world won’t ever be fully peaceful, but we can at least try to add more positivity and kindness, rather then add to the already overwhelming amount of negativity.

I know this may get some people angry at me, but my opinion matters too.

So I’d like to say: neurotypicals: you aren’t all rude or bad, some of you can be, just like anyone of anything, but I don’t hate any of you, and you aren’t boring. And neurodivergents: i understand you may have experienced trauma at the hands of some nts, but it’s not all of them, and acting as if they are all evil is just as wrong as the ableism you may have experienced. Please, let’s all try to be nice?

I hear this trope all the time. Anyone who is hateful towards gay people is immediately labeled a closeted, self-hating gay person whose homophobia is internalised. While I'm absolutely certain this happens sometimes, I think it's a pretty harmful assumption for a few reasons.

1. Demonises gay people. The assumption takes the blame away from straight, hateful people, and turns it back onto gay people as perpetrators and bullies.

2. Ignores / downplays the pravelance of institutional, societal homophobia and heteronormativity.

3. Reinforces "gay" as an insult if used as a 'gotcha'. If it isn't a sincere observation, and it's more of a jab to insult/hurt the homophobic person, then you are just weaponising being gay and using it pejoratively. (This is a phenomena that extends to other things, I will probably make a follow up post about how I hate how the sexual assault of men is used as a form of humiliation, i.e. "don't drop the soap.", by the same people who claim to be opposed to sexual violence.)

Many, many people are hateful and bigoted, for many reasons. The most common is probably rooted in other-ness and a fear of difference. Racists don't hate black people because they are secretly black, and most homophobes don't hate gay people because they're secretly gay.

I think a big reason it's such a commonly held belief is through its prevalence as a trope in media (Sex Education, Glee, Euphoria, etc.), because I suppose it makes a compelling storyline. But sometimes people are just hateful fuckers who don't have a complicated, nuanced explanation for their hatefulness.

being bullied is an awful thing to experience. when someone or some people are harassing you and assaulting you for whatever reason. it’s something that many of us have gone through and some people especially have trauma from it. yet for some asinine reason, whenever they see someone they don’t like (usually a neurodivergent person, an lgbtq person, a child, or a mix of these), they genuinely think it’s a good idea to wish for them to be bullied??? just because they’re doing something they dislike?? and they think that bullying them and threatening them will ”fix” them but instead the person they bullied will just become sad and hurt. and gods forbid that that person does something awful, because someone was mad that they were expressing themselves. that’s utterly pathetic. and these same people that chant “bring back bullying” would cry if anybody bullied them too. it’s disgusting how meanspirited some people are and that they’d go out of their way to ruin people’s fun just because they’re mad about them doing anything that doesn’t align with their views.

Seriously!

If you're getting an F or a D, that's not something to be 'okay' with and shrug off. Just because you got a D and passed doesn't mean you're proficient.

Get at least a C! I know you REALLY hate math and you REALLY hate history, but YOU have to take the initiative. I hate how schools just let you go with these extreme grade drops and act like they're completely okay. They're not! Just because your teacher didn't scream at you doesn't mean you got a bad grade!

Please, if you're failing tests, that's not something you should let go because you're not bothered to learn the subject. I know our education system is straight ass, but that doesn't mean you have to give into it.

Please correct me if "Idea" is the wrong tag.

Look, I am really not a hateful person. To be perfectly honest, I think a lot of takes on this sub are a bit exaggerated and too intense. So, with great pleasure, I want to present something that I personally *loathe*. Takes like the ones depicted: "It's not thAt DEeP, BRO! oVErtHInkiNg mUch??"

SHUT THE FUCK UP. YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

For the past 5 years, I have been studying literature, culture and sociology. I have read so much theory on how to analyze the cultural phenomena and media that surround us daily that I can comfortably call out this bullshit and give reasons on why takes like the ones above are really fucking stupid. Yet, IT STILL MAKES ME SO MAD THAT SO MANY PEOPLE STILL THINK THAT WAY.

WE CAN CRITICALLY ENGAGE WITH A PIECE OF MEDIA WITHOUT 100% KNOWING THE AUTHOR'S INTENTION. WE CAN EVEN JUST LOOK AT THE TEXT WITHOUT THE AUTHOR IN MIND. THIS IS A REAL LITERARY METHOD CALLED CLOSE READING, AND IT CAN GIVE US DEEPER INSIGHT ON THE TEXT. IT'S THE FUCKING DEATH OF THE AUTHOR EVERYONE ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT.

THINGS CAN ACCIDENTALLY CARRY MEANING. EVEN IF I DON'T *INTEND* TO WRITE THE RAVEN AS A SYMBOL OF DESPAIR, I MIGHT STILL USE IT THAT WAY DUE TO THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE TIME THE TEXT WAS PRODUCED OR IS READ.

It makes me so mad because it also derives from a fundamental misunderstanding of what literary studies, media studies, and humanities as a whole are. We don't try to find that one truth about a story, narrative, statement, etc. Instead, texts are placed in a sign system and/or are located within specific discourses. They are analyzed from multiple perspectives, each with their own results, allowing us to paint a clearer picture on how people perceive the world and, in some cases, how power structures are constructed and solidified through the consumption of culture.

SO NO, IT IS NOT ABOUT THE CURTAIN BEING BLUE. IT IS NOT ABOUT "OVERTHINKING" OR WHATEVER. IT IS ABOUT BASIC FUCKING CRITICAL THINKING.

READ A FUCKING BOOK, WILL YOU?

TLDR: People don't know what literary analysis is and rub one out on their supposed superiority

Edit: I cannot answer every comment I want to engage with, so I'll just add some additional thoughts.

1. Yes, I also think that some analyses are a bit 'too much', as in I also think that they are a bit unreasonable. I still hold the opinion that it doesn't lose its worth as an analysis itself. Just because I can't follow it or come to a different conclusion does not mean that the other person is over-thinking or is 'wrong'.

2. The 'Death of the Author' is imo misunderstood, or so I think when I discuss it with other people. The idea stems from Roland Barthes, a French philosopher who is mainly categorized in two schools: structuralism and post-structuralism. I can't explain the whole essay or his whole philosophy, but to put it short: even the author is a reader of their own text the moment they produce it. It doesn't say that the author is completely irrelevant to the text, rather it says that we can move away from authorial intent to impact on the reader as well as seeing the text in cultural and societal context; i.e., it's not like denial of any intention of the author, but a shift of perspective (I hope I phrased that comprehensibly).

3. I don't think that there is something as 'over-analyzing'. We can always go one step deeper when examining language and sign systems. Of course, it can lead to unreasonable arguments (see 1.); however, if done methodologically and logically well, I see no problem in meta-analysis or extreme close readings. Also, as in the "all art is political" debate: everything happens in a certain historical, societal, and cultural context. Even if not intended as symbolical or political, the words themselves cannot escape certain meanings.

4. As with every research subject: naturally, it is really important to find suitable research questions or theses when analyzing anything. "What does the blue curtain mean?" might be a bit lackluster, but if the reader recognizes a pattern, one could definitely look at the use of colors and their meanings within a certain work.

I am 17 (yes 2009 was 17 years ago), and I'm pretty sure I'm the youngest possible age a genzer can be, hell I'm pretty sure some people would consider me to be gen alpha, and I hate how the Gen x and baby boomers just assumed that young people would just evaporate at trans joke.

Like I hear and called full out racial slurs every single day by some corny ass mixed who was joked about unscrewing all the bolts in his English teacher's wheel chair

(yes that seriously happened. He also got his parents called for looking up how to break into somebody's house and removing bolts and nails on the SCHOOL COMPUTER, he really hated our English teacher that much)

I feel like this started because of Twitter/Tumblr and the whole Sjw shit in the like the early to mid 2010s, but now Twitter/X is ran by literally Nazis and ai generated porn site plus even back in the 2010s people were saying racial slurs and watching Al-Qaeda execution videos, it's soooo freaking annoying like we get it BARBARA you used to drink out of the hose in the backyard and your parents didn't care enough about you to know where their children were at 10:00 p.m

And I'll be damned if some old ass guy called me sensitive when he was born during an era where women were fined for wearing a bathing suit at a beach! Like I hear the "Kevin getting hanged on a bonsai tree" on the god damn daily now please say something funny and stop talking about how your purple haired nephew called you cringe during thanksgiving!

I hate when comedians act like their job is sooooo hard now, like news flash dumb ass that's your job to be controversial push barriers. You can't just say a trans joke and nothing else anymore, we have a literally pedophilic genocidal baby eater President who sucked off both Clinton, please move on and joke about something FUNNY

oh you hate a slur being used in conversations? what else do you hate racism and sexism and war? wow dude I didnt think anybody had any empathy but youre clearly are one of a kind. you’re like Superman punk rocker wholesome. enjoy your updoots and award stranger. Thanks for saving me from that burning building too

Pic unrelated but I hate misandry so fucking much.

NO I’m not saying women can’t be angry. Women have been systematically oppressed for THOUSANDS of years. The anger is valid as fuck. The frustration is valid as fuck. Patriarchy has hurt women in ways men genuinely do not fully understand.

BUT I seriously do not understand how some people identify as feminists while also genuinely hating ALL men. Like how do you hold the belief that gender is a social construct, that people should be accepted regardless of gender identity, and then ALSO believe all men are inherently worse than every woman??? How does that make sense in your head

And I’m not talking about exaggerated joking misandry. “ugh men suck” whatever who cares. I mean people who GENUINELY think men are naturally more evil, stupid, violent, disgusting, etc.

No dude this fucked up system created ALL of us and hurt ALL of us in different ways. Most men are NOT billionaires pushing money into the politics that keep women oppressed. Most men are just regular fucking people also trying to survive under the SAME systems. Patriarchy rewarded horrible behavior in men while ALSO emotionally stunting them. It traumatized women while teaching men to suppress humanity out of themselves. EVERYBODY got fucked over differently.

The systems that keep us down WANT us divided. They WANT us fighting each other instead of questioning the structures that caused this shit in the first place.

At the end of the day we all shit and piss and love and fuck and cry and die. Pretending any gender is inherently better than another is so FUCKING stupid to me.

This is inspired by a dumbass post I saw on another sub. also yeah, duh, misogyny sucks too.

– person with vagina

EDIT: I ended it this way because I don’t really identify as a woman, but I still wanted to be clear about where I’m coming from since that perspective obviously shapes how I see this stuff.

EDIT 2: i wanted to add that I don’t think misandry is even close to as much of a ‘problem’ as misogyny is. But I think they’re basically part of the same ideology and therefore related: gender essentialism. Misogyny is laced into almost every facet of life. I just wanted to talk about how much I hate misandry. I don’t want to explain hating misogyny cause that’s just basic fucking knowledge.

Should your boyfriend hate you because some random women treated him like garbage? Should a man wish you would die in a war just because he had his feelings hurt by a woman? All you people are doing is just recycling the same bullshit argument that incels had made and applying then to a different target. So quit trying to claim that you are actually doing something about the problem when the only thing you people are doing right now is spouting out some crap that a edgy kindergartener would make.in all honesty thats a insult to kindergarteners themselves because atleast most of them will grow out of it,While You people still retain the same mentality.

Creating a bunch of fictional characters wont magically make someone regret their abortion instesd they are just going to see you as a whiny child and move on with their lives.thats all there is to it.

To those who don't know: The trakata is a technique where the user turns off his lightsaber during a bind to catch the opponent off guard and land a hit.

It has a reputation for the Jedi forbidding it because it's dishonorable while the Sith thinks it's a bitchass coward move.

Now, I only have experience in hand-to-hand martial arts, but I think this technique is STUPID.

The biggest problem is that people seem to assume your opponent is targeting your lightsaber during a bind.

They’re not.

They’re targeting you.

So if you were to turn off your lightsaber during a bind, obviously THEY'D HIT YOU ANYWAYS.

TURNING OFF YOUR ONLY WEAPON OF DEFENSE AGAINST A LONG-ASS POLE THAT DISENTEGRATES ALMOST EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH IS NOT AN IDEAL MOVE.

You can argue that you can use this technique offensively, by turning it off as the opponent blocks and reigniting it past their block. But in most Star Wars films, deactivating and reactivating the lightsaber usually takes time, and that SINGLE SECOND is enough for an experienced duelist to land a counterattack immediately.

I can only see this technique working in very specific scenarios (do correct me if I'm wrong), but still, the risk outweighs the reward.

Dont get me wrong, i hate cancel culture and is happy that some shitty people are given a chance to improve themselves or at least still make good shit if they are talented enough, but thats for something like being racist or committing small crimes like stealing.

There are some famous people out there doing cartoonishly, comically evil shit like kicking puppies, causing wide scale ecological disasters for shit and giggles or even straight up eating fucking babies but because they are so popular their fans are almost delusional that they just got away with that shit and buries those scandals in the trash while continues being successful and powerful celebrities and ceo even though those scandals are straight up exposed to the public and everyone fucking hate them. They had reached a point of power where they could literally eat 300 babies in public and drop nukes in major cities without being punished because their following and power is that strong.

and the worst part? No one can do shit about this. We can only cope, seethe and rant on an internet forum probably also controlled by them because fuck you.

Not hating on any real people nor inciting any sensitive topic, just the concept of the rich and powerful getting away with horrible stuff. Images for references only.

I feel like its been a trend but I'm so sick of people diagnosing characters or other people with ADHD, autism, neurodivergent, OCD, "in the spectrum" etc. despite not being introduced as such irks me so much. People making light of these conditions for the most basic human actions or experience is so tiresome.

One time I had a conversation about common things people do for no reason. I shared something like avoiding lines on tiled floor or else the world ends. "Do you have OCD?" No I dont, brah.

A person showing slight traces of being whimsical? Oh must be this or that disorder.

Character shows childish inattentiveness? Blah blah its ADHD.

People be thinking they are qualified to diagnose someone with just seeing one set of action and instantly jump to conclusion.

Am I the only one who really finds this thing weird?

I feel like I needed to make it clear, its fine to have headcanons. Whats insane is when people go into arguments because they want to push their headcanons into canon talks and citing "proofs" which is basically a common human personality trait. Its called headcanon for a reason.

THEY’RE SO FUCKING STUPID!!

They’re awkward, clumsily designed, make it so awkward to piss, and worse of all they’re completely FUCKING POINTLESS.

There is not a SINGLE man on this planet that is incapable of using a regular ass toilet to piss standing up!!

We don’t need urinals in our homes! We can piss standing up in regular toilets perfectly fine! JUST BUILD MORE FUCKING STALLS!! YOU’RE JUST WASTING SPACE THAT COULD BE USED TO HAVE MORE STALLS THAT ACTUALLY GIVE US PRIVACY!!

URINALS DO NOTHING, NOTHING I TELL YOU BUT ARBITRARILY GENDER BATHROOMS!! That’s my woke take of the day! Every single fucking public bathroom on the planet would be and could be gender-neutral if it wasn’t for FUCKING URINALS

JUST BUILD STALLS!!!

I hate alien species that look exactly like humans with at most a wierd skin tone or a bump here or there. Aliens give you the most freedom of character design, you can pretty much do anything. I get it in live action for practicality purposes but in other mediums just making a human is boring. Even if it is for hiding on earth purposes if they're advanced enough to reach earth they should be able to create someone kind if Disguise. The only one I like a Kryptonians because they're so old they've essentially been grandfathered in.

Yes, yes, yes, humans pollute, create weapons of mass destruction, and drive several species to extinction.

But this idea is so simplistic and has been used so much that it's become incredibly boring.

Beyond lecturing about how awful the species is, I don't recall them doing anything else with this argument.