Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems
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      I really canā€™t imagine reading a book by someone whose vision of the future is ā€œmen will be taller and have more muscles, women will stay the same height but theyā€™ll all be conventionally attractive and have voluntary control of their uterusā€.

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        Babel-17 came out in 1966, and its vision of the future was that a good shipā€™s captain knows how to complete a poly triad and you canā€™t leave Earth without a full crew including three ghosts and a furry.

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          Now thatā€™s the kind of stuff that makes puppies sadā€¦

          (New wave SF is a bit of a blind spot for me. Never really read any Delany, even though his autobio is one the best Iā€™ve read)