Disclaimer: This meme may include negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then, and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, I want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it, and spark a conversation to create a more inclusive future together.

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Re the disclaimer - This might be an old meme, but it’s still very light-hearted and can be interpreted in a few different ways.

    If either a man or a woman finds this offensive, they are doing so entirely for personal attention and I’d rather “spark a conversation” with a brain-damaged goat than with boring cunts like that 😂

    • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      “I’ve said my point and want people to know in advance that if you disagree with me, you are attention-seeking, and I will insult you for your opinion.”

      Regardless of what side someone is on in this matter, your lose.

      There are better takes. Get one.

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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        5 days ago

        Sorry I’ve just spotted a goat over there that’s in the middle of having a stroke

        Back in a moment

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          Cool…. So you’re a troll. It’s always good when the gifts wrap themselves. You e nothing useful to say, so I’m gonna block you.

              • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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                I’m not some dude’s sock puppet, I just tend to downvote comments from people who have giant sticks up their ass and aren’t even enjoying it.

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                  So I have a stick up my ass if I call out some clown that insults people before they can even think to disagree with them? How ironic considering the community this was posted in.

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                5 days ago

                No, you and him bickering over “trolling” in a meme sub about a boomer meme.

                Bazinga

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                  5 days ago

                  Ahh… see I thought it was about some clown antagonizing people before they could even disagree with their dumb shit.

                  Guess I was wrong, but in my eyes… That’s about as boomer energy as it gets.

    • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I mean, it’s kind of a tired joke at this point for women to be treated as these complicated, enigmatic creatures when 90% of the communication issues could be solved by, you know, talking to us.

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        “So what do you like? What do you want to do?”

        doesn’t even react as if she heard me make a mouth noise

        I’ve tried that enough times to know it doesn’t fucking work.

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        5 days ago

        Sure, but men can generally be turned on by a breeze through the window, while they are eating a grape.

        The “joke” is that there isn’t really any communication needed, for the majority of men. That alone represents the “joke” complexity

    • Thassodar@lemm.eeOP
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      6 days ago

      TBH the disclaimer is because I’ve posted 2-3 memes here that have been removed without message or explanation to me. So, from now on, I add the disclaimer no matter how mild or appropriate/inappropriate the meme may have been for its time.

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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        Yep, totally understand that, not your fault at all; it’s the fault of the boring twats with no personality of their own that are determined to be offended on other people’s behalf on a daily basis

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        As a mod of another fun community, I can tell you that people report things just because they don’t personally like them, and there are plenty of mods that will remove anything with a few downvotes that get reported. I don’t, but plenty do.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Offensive to some people or not, it’s still quite funny. This is a joke that transcends time and generations.

    Also, it takes a jab at both vanilla genders, so … tit for tat.

  • kindenough@kbin.earth
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    6 days ago

    So men have just a single switch or what? Let me guess…women RTX on or off? Fuck this shit brah.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      There’s also one of those adjustment pots on the main board you get to by sticking a screwdriver in a hole on the back, but people don’t tend to mess with that much.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    6 days ago

    There’s a book called “Self Made Man” wherein a butch looking woman disguised herself as a man with the help of some professionals, back when this was a wild and uncommon thing to do, and then went and did extended lengths of time in exclusively male environments (bowling league, high pressure sales) to covertly observe men in their natural environment. It is in all seriousness the best book I have ever read on gender psychology and the differences and communication troubles between the main genders.

    I won’t even try to summarize, but what she came away from it with is that the standard cliche of “on a different wavelength” is exactly the right metaphor. She wasn’t coming from any kind of deliberately ignorant perspective but she did have the pretty common perception that man are just sort of these cavemen, and was actually very shocked and surprised to discover that the average man has a whole complex emotional life of his own, but that it happens in a way and in a language that’s mostly invisible to the average woman unless she is very very deeply involved in his life.

    Like I say, it sounds like a pretty corny premise especially in today’s supposedly more enlightened times, but to me it was extremely insightful and real.

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      Was she the one who later killed herself in part because of how terrible it was to be a man for that period of time?

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        Whoa, what the fuck

        You are correct apparently that she did kill herself legally in Switzerland after a lifetime of treatment resistant depression, but she said the thing that really messed her up was treatment with SSRIs, not the stress of having been a man.

        Although, she was hospitalized for a depressive breakdown during research for the book. She identified the reason as “the burden of deception,” though, not specifically being treated as a man. From what I remember, she said that in a lot of ways being a man was actually less inherently stressful than being a woman (not having guys make eye contact with her, sort of play dominance games with her or try to interact with her, but just kind of let her go around and be left alone – also that male friendships are more unconditionally supportive and friendly with each other than female). But yeah, I’m sure she couldn’t fully “enjoy it” so to speak because of having to lead the double life full time or not feeling like she could really be friends with the people she was friends with.

    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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      As a non-binary trans person I gotta say that lines up. A lot of women are not well equipped to intuit men’s emotions as they are set behind a veneer of distance and a lot of men often aren’t able to apply appropriate empathy to women because they don’t afford them the same level of respect and attention as people who have that same veneer. So women get coded to men as over emotional and men often feel angry and isolated because women aren’t trying particularly hard to empathize and there is a lot of times when their feelings are dismissed as not as important. Then everything becomes extra strained when anxieties about heterosexual extra partner sexual liasons means one gets separated from a general population into strictly people whom your partner feels you may safe being around.

      I am very lucky. I exist in an excellent personal community. The cis folk I am friends with are all friends across any concept of gender and there’s other trans folk in my cohort which create additional inroads to understanding different experiences. We also don’t specifically gender anything, nobody is ever teased for not living up to gendered expectations and discussions are frank and open. I only experience this anxious distance between the genders in groups of co-workers or at family functions.

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    6 days ago

    I interpret this to show how women are much more open about being complex humans while men have to hide all the intricacies behind the panel and only present the most basic user friendly interface to the world and deal with the consequences in private.