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What are some weird flexes people have that they think make them better than others? (piefed.world)
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[–] 50 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm not sure you could call it a "flex" but the number of people I meet who are almost proud of how bad they are at math is ridiculous. Short of having been diagnosed with dyscalculia, lacking basic mathematics skills as an adult should be on par with not knowing how to read.

It blows my mind how many other Americans I come across who lack basic understandings of fractions. We use the damn imperial system, which is a whole other issue for a different lemmy rant.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    lots of people i meet brag they don't read either dude.

    usually after they see that I'm reading a book or if I tell them I like to read. they seem to find this very offensive and upsetting.

    i notice this especially with like, tech and medical workers? I also met quite a few english teachers who flexed how they don't read and think reading is dumb.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    english teachers who [...] don't read

    Not having time to read I could understand. Teaching comes with a lot of overtime. But actively bragging that they don't?!

    My head hurts just thinking about that.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    plenty of people working in teaching/education are rabidly anti-intellectual. and lots of people in life are rabidly-hypocritical.

    the irony here too was the few people i met like this, also lectured me on my 'problematic' choices of reading material not being woke enough. like i had this date with an English teacher who went off on me for 30m about how racist/sexist I was for not being intimately familiar with Toni Morrison, and when I asked her when the last time she read it, it was 15+ years ago in college... the irony was just... so insane. she was going at me for not having read a book she read in college for coursework...

    it's just all weird flexes all the way down sometimes with some people.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Cannot stand this shit. I have two younger sisters, and my extended family loves to go on and on about how they're bad at math, or how they were not good at math in school because it's hard. Okay, but you don't have to seed it into their very impressionable minds that math is hard, because it really shouldn't be.

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