Author: John Paul Brammer, from the piece “The Most Unlovable Man in New York City.”
Archived copy of source, because fuck giving Substack any clicks.
Hard Out There For A Woman
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rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I cracked up at the novella one because the guy was probably thinking of a telenovela.
mittyta@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think he think of just novela which is novel in Spanish. So that guy was right, actually. But she is good on words, anyway.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Or I am stupid ::: I
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Wait, she slept with Helen Keller and Amelia Earhart?
Nice.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I think that’s a crime though
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I was shaking my head at the Helen Keller - Amelia Earhart confusion until I double checked something.
I was getting Helen Keller confused with Anne Frank…
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
There’s no way that Anne Frank learned how to read.
Aneb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think she could write
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Amelia Earhart
Wasn’t she that maid that took things way too literally?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You’re thinking of Amelia Bedelia.
Amelia Earhart was Paul Simon’s girlfriend. He wrote a song about her leaving, then coming back to him.
spip@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Get back to the Quick Stop.
sunshine@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I was getting Helen Keller confused with Anne Frank…
wow- wanna fuck?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Himbo vibes
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
Is that you, Randall?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
There actually was a stunt where they let Helen Keller ‘fly’ a plane (hold the stick while they were already in the air with the pilots monitoring).
The conspiracy that she wasn’t actually blind or deaf is frustratingly common among people under 30, who I assume have all picked it up from TikTok.
decolo@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Wasn’t she like a raging jerk?
AmyAye@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
Plot twist, this is because the person who taught her sign language thought it would be funny if they only taught her to flip the bird to everyone.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, but she was a founder of the ACLU
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
switcheroo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not sleeping with stupid. I don’t care what they look like. Gross. Such a turnoff.
Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Calling stupid people gross seems kind of ableist.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Intellect is absolutely a worthwhile trait in a breeding partner. It should be sexy to be smart.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why are you assuming stupid people are disabled? Do you not see how this is stupidly toxic and ableist logic?
krashmo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This just in: insults are insulting
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s fucking stupid.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No one cares even a single bit about disabled folks. Even so-called leftists. Honestly, especially them, it feels like so often to me.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Amelia Earhart is the sister of the NASCAR driver, right?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Dale Earnhardt was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
After hitting an iceberg he was left floating in the frigid water, never to be seen again, if I remember correctly.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I really need people to know that Helen Keller did fly a plane and yes, this fact alone is the crux of a lot of weird Keller-denialism. It’s ironic that the woman in the post is suggesting the man mentioning Keller is ignorant for confusing her with Earhart, because he wasn’t. He is ignorant for thinking the Keller story is unbelievable, however.
britannica.com/…/how-did-helen-keller-fly-a-plane (egregious ad deployment on that site, fair warning)
chewypoops@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m getting whiplash here.
First I’m told there’s a guy who didn’t know the difference between Helen Keller and Emilia Earhart.
Then I’m told that Helen Keller really did fly a plane, and that the guy wasn’t misspeaking.
And now I have to grapple with the fact that the guy wasn’t stupid, but rather a conspiracy theorist, and that “Helen Keller conspiracy theorists” are a real thing.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Welcome to the party, my friend. It’s BYOB and nobody brought beer.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The thing about the “there’s no way she flew that plane” thing is so annoying is that it’s not even that bold of a claim. They flew her up, she flew for a bit with someone there to take control if something bad happened, then they landed.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Literally. I don’t mean this to diminish Helen Keller, but the sort of “flying” she did was the same as when they let a kid into the cockpit.
Given her conditions, this is still absolutely an accomplishment and worth applauding. But to suggest that there is anything remotely unbelievable about it would require a fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of the situation
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think it’s worth mentioning that this was a publicity stunt. Keller wasn’t a pilot by trade.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Absolutely. Please do not take the words of me, a literal stranger, as the complete story. Please read the Britannica article.
lama@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If the guy didn’t know who Emelia Earhart was, I doubt he knew of this conspiracy
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s not how misinformation works. It preys upon the ignorant and fills them with lies before they can be filled with truths. All it takes is mild interest in one tiny slice of the right-wing nutjob conspiracy pie to be immediately pulled down the rabbit hole via algorithms on youtube, tiktok, even reddit.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I slept with both of them. I’ve been on a lot of dates.
Doesn’t sound like she’s doing all that bad with men 🤔
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
she didn’t say that she enjoyed it
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
So she is doing bad at getting good dates? Doesn’t seem like a her-problem 😅
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Knew a lady that had four sons with her first husband. Wonderful woman in every way, the boys took after dad. Tall and handsome, dumber than chicken shit and always drink the bottle empty. Nice guys, but I swear they quit breathing while they are trying their shoes. Met someone who knew her in school, she was only sorting for looks and fun. Paying for that now.
Glowstick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think the novella one is that bad
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Your body, your choice.
expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Helen Keller flew a plane. She slept with both these men?!
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
In the current typhoon of men behaving badly in the US and the ongoing response and safety movements often advocating romantic abstinence, sometimes the observation is made that not every woman — even those pledged to the movement — is on the same page.
And then there’s the abstinence-until-marriage doctrine of white Christian nationalists, in which young women pledge to preserve their virginity until their one-and-only trad-minded husband puts a ring on it. (Young men might take a similar pledge, but they’re not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience. Double standards and inconsistent value systems and all that.) Yet, a conspicuous fraction of these (sometimes underage) young women overestimate their willpower, frequently contributing to the disproportionate rate of teen pregnancy in school districts that have committed to abstinence-only sex-ed.
Then there’s the women’s magazine I remember reading during the COVID-19 lockdown, that asked readers to write in their stories when they needed the d so badly they risked infection by a stranger to get it. There were a lot of confessional replies.
And all this is to say, sometimes a girl has needs.
jayands@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Young men might take a similar pledge, but they’re not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience.
Y’know, I didn’t really think about it during the American Pie era, but I’m just gonna say it: if the boys are supposed to be getting experience, and the girls are supposed to not be, who are the boys having sex with?
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The homies, don’t forget to kiss them good night after though
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of the sexy guy I met at the hotel pool the day before my breast cancer surgery and his only hesitancy was “Is it contagious?”
jade52@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Jesus fucking CHRIST.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
If my wife had said something like this on our first date I’d have married her sooner.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
But what happens when she runs out of idiots?!
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
*Slaps roof of Planet Earth….
“This bad boy can fit so many completely brainless morons in it.”
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
how is that possible ?
subterfuge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not with that attitude, it isn’t.
Freeposity@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m convinced that a lot of teen girls who are now identifying as trans or non binary are really just trying to get the stupid boys to leave them alone.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
God, I wish I was a moron.
LovelyMover@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Is this real? There are really people that stupid out there, & things are so desperate women will sleep with them?
sangeteria@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Lowkey them both saying that is so sexy to me
I’m also a gay guy and not a woman so idk if that’s a factor
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why 😭
B1tch_Pudding@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I thought this was somebody’s type
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
This is somewhat similar to my raw attraction to toxic women. I once had a woman casually say mid-blowjob, “I could totally bite your cock off right now.” I giggled like Ralph Wiggum and then we had mind blowing sex.
disorderly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you ever wrote a book I’d leave it on my coffee table as a conversation piece.
TipRing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had a friend like you once, if he was into a woman there was guaranteed something dreadfully wrong with her. Like this was an actual conversation:
Friend (excited): I just started seeing her, she’s amazing! The best thing that’s ever happened to me! Me: Dude, the last to girlfriends you said that about ended up in jail. Friend: No it’s different this time, she’s cool! She’s a gamer, we like the same music, she’s super chill. Me: Ok dude, I’m happy for you.
Two weeks later Me: Dude, you ok? You look pretty down. Friend: My girlfriend likes to get into throw down drunken brawls with strangers every weekend.
But this friend was also a weirdness magnet in general.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I need a legit survey of women who haven’t thought about this at least once.
I’m convinced it’s half the appeal of oral sex. “I could be your last with a chomp and a twist, but you’re too horny to care”.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s through the grace of seeking Dommes that I freed myself from my self destructive instinct towards dangerous and toxic women lol. Thankfully these days I’m married to a dangerous but completely nontoxic woman, because I really can’t handle the “picking fights out of boredom” type behavior
urthoughtsrbad@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hopefully all these people can find eachother! Romantically walk off into the sun.
B1tch_Pudding@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I hope they’d wear sunscreen 😦
Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Asking what the Spanish word for tortilla is a valid question.
If you ordered a ‘tortilla’ in Spain, you would get an omelette, not a flatbread.
This comment section is like the bellcurve meme.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
Tortilla is tortilla in Spanish. Only in Spain, were just a fraction of Spanish speakers live, tortilla is a potato dish.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yeah, false friends (loan words that don’t mean what they mean in the other language) are super common.
bumblefumble@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
To be fair to the last comment: The Pink Panther could be either a leopard or a jaguar, it isn’t clear which one.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think they are called himbos
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Rescuing the gene pool, one moron at a time
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
to the person posting in the image: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE