Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 days agoWhat is your point? Did a billboard with the word “disappointment” fall on your great uncle and kill him?
Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 days agoWhat is your point? Did a billboard with the word “disappointment” fall on your great uncle and kill him?
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
No I’m saying that using that term implies an expectation for those women that they are failing to meet. I am asking why he has an expectation for random women to not get those piercings. Re-read my comment omg 🙄
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ve re-read your comment dozens of times trying to understand why this concept is lost on you, that it’s FINE to be disappointed with someone’s fashion choices, be it someone you know personally, or a generalized view of trends. It’s OKAY. It doesn’t MEAN anything other than, some people like things and other people do not. I too feel a sense of disappointment when people with otherwise pretty features accessorize it in ways that distract or detract from my preference. AND THAT’S ALSO OKAY.
You know what else? You’re ALSO allowed to be disappointed with how some people dress, talk, act or just about ANYTHING else that you like or don’t like. This is called being an adult human with values, taste and self-esteem.
Whatever cartoonish picture jumped into your head of some “alpha male” casting judgement on women he wants to sleep with, which I think you’re picturing here, that shit is coming from a place of insecurity or pain inside YOU, this is not an objectifying or entitled attitude to express or hold. Disappointment with someone’s choices is a normal and healthy thing that men and women feel and express all the time and sure it can become toxic in extreme circumstances, it’s nowhere NEAR that to just express not liking a thing.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
He didn’t say someone in particular. He said he was “disappointed so many girls” are getting those piercings. That doesn’t imply specific women, it implies women in general.
It’s fine for him not to like them, I’m calling out his use of language and how it implies that all women are beholden to some expectation he has for them.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 5 days ago
and we’re calling out your use of language and the implication inherent in it.
Spectrism@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
“it implies women in general.”
No, it implies a specific group of women, namely those with such piercings.