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- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 3 days ago:
“Ugly” as an insult does more damage even it’s aimed at a person who was taught their only value in the whole world was how cute they look, regardless of gender. It just happens that the majority of people who were taught that from birth were women.
Nobody does beauty and the beast with an ugly chick and a cute guy without explicitly trying to undermine the ideal of beauty as intrinsically the sole function of a woman. Men get to be primarily funny, sweet, handy, clever, etc, with handsome as a potential secondary add-on; women generally need to be beautiful, with any other characteristics being the secondary add-on.
And we’re not taking about things you can choose, like hygiene and smoking status. Just looks. A woman who’s kind but ugly always turns into a beautiful swan at the end of the male fantasy story.
If you call someone an inbred thickhead it hits about the same. If you call someone a slimey booger it hits about the same. If you call someone a useless empty ghoul it hits about the same. But you gotta know visual insults like ugly have broader social context.
And to be clear. A HUGE amount of this problem is intensified and maintained by the billion dollar beauty industry, which LOVES insecurity. It’s working hard to monetize men too! But it’s still a work in progress there.
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 3 days ago:
Are you serious?
- Comment on Let's discuss... 4 days ago:
Nobody said who was getting warmed up here
- Comment on Let's discuss... 4 days ago:
Where else do you expect them to store their emergency absinthe stash?
- Comment on Cracked out wall kitten, back to spread her knowledge and wisdom 4 days ago:
Ooooh if she has twins
- Comment on Cracked out wall kitten, back to spread her knowledge and wisdom 4 days ago:
Oh rare steak. Nice.
- Comment on US presidents ranked by how much of a soul it looks like they have behind those eyes 4 days ago:
How the holy molarity did Clinton rank that high
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 4 days ago:
I am SO HAPPY to see big tits on my timeline instead of anime children showing their whole ass. Like. Reddit is not ok. I will happily accept having to see mommy milkers instead of lipless, eyebrow-deficient bobbleheaded children in lingerie.
- Comment on misleading cover 2 weeks ago:
That means I’d need a steam account, which I don’t actually have.
- Comment on misleading cover 3 weeks ago:
…is that real or a clever pun you just made up? I really want to know without using Google.
- Comment on Would you want to go back in time when you were a kid? 5 weeks ago:
Of course. I would love to see my mom again, and I would love to be that lucky lottery winner. I’d love to get better grades in math, too.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 5 weeks ago:
So… Ranch dressing?
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 5 weeks ago:
It fucking depends on the target weakness bro.