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[+] -6 points 1 month ago (24 children)

"Haha women bad and crazy"

Didn't realize we were on facebook. Misogynistic boomer humor can fuck off.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    Execuse my dumdum but what part implies that? Is it the meds part??? Why is taking meds bad if so, idk what it implies, like bipolarity or schizophrenia or what???

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    The meme implies she has multiple personalities. Having dissociative identity disorder (the condition that causes multiple personalities) is not a bad thing, but it is heavily stigmatized, and there is a very VERY long history of dismissing and degrading women on the basis that they're "less mentally stable", which mental health conditions can do, and carry the stigma of doing.

    Hysteria was once a medical diagnosis given to women for "being to emotional and crazy", and the vibrator was invented by a doctor as a medical device intended as a treatment for hysteria. The entire origins of mental health as a field is rooted in "treating" women. And there is still today a patten of people dismissing women by calling them crazy (eg "my ex was crazy"), and a chronic problem in healthcare where women's health issues are not taken seriously and providers treat woman patients as if they're imagining things.

    Its a very familiar narrative but its one that has been used to do a lot of harm to women, and so using it in a meme where you're also criticizing women for wearing makeup (a product of the way women are expected to compulsorily perform attractiveness) reads as sexist

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I did think about DID but doscarded it because I don't think there are any meds for that? I mean probably for stuff closely related but mean like people don't really take meds to make the personalities disappear from my undestanding, some people go to therapy to "merge" those personalities from what I know like if they want to.

    I've heard about the doctor stuff yea, and that all makes sense.

    Also how is it criticizing women for wearing makeup? From my understanding I think it just says she looks different? Unless it implies some uh idk that she is ugly on one side (of wearing or not makeup)??? I honestly don't see the difference between the glasses and the makeup one. If you take a negative interpretation I feel both would be really bad in different ways anyway. Unless I am interpreting something incorrectly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Yes, I don't think the person on twitter understands or cares about that with respect to whether DID involves meds

    I only read it as criticism of women for wearing makeup because its an extremely common line of joke where the butt of the joke is generally that women are dishonest about how they look because their makeup changes their appearance. Sometimes the negativity is explicit, sometimes it is implied. And that generally makes me uncomfortable with people joking about that kind of thing. Whereas glasses giving you a different appearance never gets wielded to attack women.

    Were the elements that could be interpreted uncharitably not all combined here (joking about both makeup and also mental illness), and were the context an individual scale interaction rather than the interaction being turned into a meme for mass appeal at scale I might be inclined to interpret more charitably. But the former makes it feel more malicious and the later makes it feel more important that it not be harmful.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (17 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (14 children)

    If your idea of a shitpost is the same shit your grandpa would post on Facebook immediately after trying to use the status box as a search bar that makes me sad for you

    Maybe we can do unironic minion memes about drinking too much wine next

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    “My” idea of a shitpost? I don’t self define the meaning of words and phrases…

    Use any reputable on or off line resource that defines shitposting and then chime back with a cohesive argumente as to why this isn’t, apparently, a shitpost.

    Double dare you.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    My point isnt about whether its a shitpost, thats what your point is about.

    Mine is that shitposting by literally just posting marginal sexist boomer memes is dumb and theres literally no joy in that. Its a sad and lame way to shitpost. The joy in shitposting is the absurdity. This isnt even a bad enough to be enjoyable for it's absurdly bad quality. This belongs next to your wine-mom aunt talking about how much she wants to drink wine, displayed as text over an ai generated minion

    Theres no irony in it. Theres not playfulness in it. Its just a meme that circlejerks about how much the poster thinks "woman bad". My grandpa with shitty takes on the world would unironically enjoy this meme.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Whilst I mostly enjoy the more absurd / surreal / dadist qualities of posts the same as you do I still really admire some of these cat amongst the pigeons or spanner in the works type posts. Their ability to be taken at face value makes me laugh.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Not the one who downvoted you, using down votes for people engaging with you sincerely always seems shitty to me-

    I can't say I relate to the humor you see in it, but I'm glad at least someone is enjoying it in some fashion. I just dont exactly get the impression everyone is upvoting because as an ironic shitpost- It validates a lot of shitty preconceived notions people have that do real harm, and casual sexism is probably the most unpleasant thing exported here from reddit when people moved over (which, this is a direct automated cross post from reddit. The account just automates posting reddit memes)

    In my mind its hard to give something a pass if its both gross and preys on internalized harmful stereotypes or heirachies AND seems deeply unfunny. If I wanted Facebook memes making fun of women I feel like I'd go literally anywhere else on the internet. It doesnt feel tongue in cheek to me if its just the actual crappy sexist memes from actually sexist parts of the internet.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I don’t really look at votes - we’re all disparate netizens with our own ideas. Pluses and minuses ain’t no thing.

    Outside of the context of this specific community everything you say is completely valid and, probably, quite true.

    I’ll concede that this veers quite close to ragebait but ultimately fails that test; in my opinion.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Thats fair, I just have social anxiety and am sensitive to what social ques I send 😅

    I think it'd be possible for it to be ragebait of op had any personal intentions when posting this specifically at all, but like I said, this is an automated reddit cross post, which I think kinda precludes considering it ragebait 🤷🏻‍♂️ in some ways that also makes it feel less like a shitpost and more like spam, but that's just me

    Regardless of looking at things differently I appreciate you engaging with me sincere, I hope you have a lovely day ☺️

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I’m partly replying because you mentioned social anxiety… and didn’t want to leave you hanging.

    The other thing is about up/down votes. With the fediverse particularly votes seem to be affected more where you speak than what you say.

    Each instance and more so community has a distinct flavour. A couples meme won’t work on a femcel comm. A new publication of a bible would bomb with the atheists but might be a hit with the book enthusiasts. So don’t worry about votes… we’re all complete strangers and our opinions, whilst interesting, are just opinions.

    You’ll be fine.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    You can always make your own shitposting community where all posts have adhere to your personal sense of humour.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    Or I can just say I think sexist jokes that aren't even funny kinda suck.

    I'll yuck other people's sexist boomerhumor yum all I want, thanks.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    You are right, being a whiny bitch is indeed allowed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    We're social creatures, If I want a space without sexist shit and a culture where that kinda stuff is unwelcome, that means saying "ew, gross" when someone shows up with sexist shit. I wouldn't even care that much that its unfunny if it weren't also misogynistic.

    Call me whiny all you want. I don't like sexism, and if my taking issue with it sounds like whining to you I think that says more about you than me.

    It'd be nice to have at least one small corner of the internet where laughing about bigotry told through the saddest memes imaginable isnt the norm.

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