like i'm trying to imagine the scenario in which it could potentially not feel degrading and i feel i cant come up with anything realistic

- If a female celebrity is “aging well” or not.
- Anything having to do with the Lindsay Clancy trial.
- The latest iPhone.
- What celebrity recently had cosmetic procedures, or lost a ton of weight.
- Memecoins.
- Using fictional characters as examples of empirical claims.
- Zoomer aging anxiety.
- Anything involving “Karens” - we just let the internet ruin a whole name, ok cool.
- Anyone currently being touted as “the Left’s Joe Rogan”.

A few years ago I was soooo deep in man hating discourse on TikTok and it got bad enough where I was literally just insulting and arguing with guys I’d hook up with for sport. It gave me a weird false sense of power and looking back on it I see that it was really damaging because a lot of them were actually cool and kind people. I still have a lot of regret about that. I was consuming a lot of content that was like ‘Hey girlies tap into ur dark feminine energy by humbling and belittling every man you come in contact with so they don’t get the chance to do it to you first’😍 I’m not naive to the societal implications of misogyny and how truly scary and malicious men can be, but this was a lesson I needed to learn about making generalizations. In no way am I a male apologist I’ve had my fair share of atrocious encounters with men and understand the systemic root causes of certain behaviors. I think consuming this type of content that was presented to me so absolutely and extreme, genuinely messed with my attachment styles and how I connected with sexual/ romantic partners. Weird af, hopefully someone can relate. To all the (cool) boys I’ve hurt, I’m sorry

Basically we're wrapping up the appointment and she brings up her tesla and I was asking how long it takes to charge so she starts explaining it etc etc.

Anyways I eventually ask like "so do you ever worry about something like a power grid, EMP, Leave The World Behind-type scenario with an EV? I feel like that would be in the back of my mind" and I was just being kinda playful about it not like super serious.

She said that if something like that happens her car is the least of her concerns and says "what? You think the gas pumps are gonna be all free for you to use?" So I say like "well no but you could still have surplus gas in a can or something" and she goes "ok and? I could build a generator and charge my car that way" so I say "well I mean building a generator isn't quite the same as having gas in a can" to which she accused me of moving the goalpost.

She went on for a second about how if the grid goes out or the world ends she's just gonna rob everyone and says "see first you said if the power goes out, then you said if the world ends, you keep changing it" so I clarified that I was just talking about any situation like that but she didn't gaf she goes "no see you keep interrupting you need to be silent to listen, that's why they have all the same letters" and then just started getting really loud and clapping her hands talking about how she doesn't give a fuck about no power grid and she's not gonna let me talk over and think I have something to tell her and she just went on like this for like 2 or 3 minutes.

I really don't know wtf I said to send her off like that. It was like I woke up a sleeper agent or something. It wasn't even a super serious hypothetical.

Edit to say I did ask her like "but when you had a gas car didn't you keep a little can of gas in your garage or something?" to which she immediately said "FUCK no"

I have this friend who’s “dating intentionally” and talks nonstop about how she’s tired of guys who want to waste her time with something casual. I think she tells guys this too before they meet up? Anyways she was out for dinner with some guy and after they finished eating the appetizers he stopped her before they got around to ordering entrees and was like, I don’t think we’re compatible but I don’t want to waste your time so maybe we should call it a night? She texts me afterwards super pissed off by this; she said it was rude and he should’ve waited until after the date was over and told her by text he didn’t want to see her again. I told her she got exactly what she asked for which was not a moment of her time to be wasted and that it was the gentlemanly thing of him to do in that moment. Apparently that was the wrong thing to say and im not a “girls girl” acc to her. Idk man

Edit HE PAID btw

I deal w this sort of customer so much at work and this pissed me off to no avail. Sorry you got “profiled” in a shop by someone just doing their job, you assumed they’re looking down on you based on basically nothing and now it’s everyones problem. Karen Clarkson over here sending the agot stannies out to boycott some random store because she’s got nothing else going on and feels insecure. I’m in a terrible fucking mood this just pissed me off more sorry.

Do you guys ever meet someone and it’s like oh your wardrobe is 100% polyester I will never in my life be able to find you sexy?

And how does anyone think that it’s okay to have synthetic bedding? It feels inhuman to sleep in a bed every day and just be okay with that stuff touching your skin. I have a hard time putting up with it even for a night and it will make me definitely not want to sleep with someone again.

Hoping im not alone in this because I meet a lot of people in their mid-late 20s who just don’t seem to care about the fabrics in their lives and it drives me insane!!

the fake sincerity, the contrived quaintness, the millennial wholesome chungus optimism, everything about it is triggering in retrospect but how did it get so popular for a while

Vent post I guess but I hate meeting people (dating and friends!!) who have like, no hobbies or goals. Sure, a career, that's great, pay the bills, but is there anything else because scrolling? I feel like I should've gone to art school or majored in music or something. Every girl I meet seems so bored of life and in turn is boring! And the men are same or outright evil. At this point I would even take an evil woman, feel free to slide your evil friends into my DMs, I just want ANYTHING that's actually exciting, from someone not using chatgpt to occupy their remaining brain cells.

What's it like for the rest y'all?? This is NYC btw, is it worse everywhere else????

idfk what it is but the guys on tiktok who think theyre batman or anakin skywalker because they got cheated on n now theyre in their gym arc reposting edits revving their annoying fucking bikes n cars auramaxxing patrick bateman quotes calling every girl 403s n saying how much they hate dating in the generation but theyre just misogynistic and have no game n think being an introvert who only likes cars and typical boyish things makes them so diff quirky and rare than other men with some annoying blade runnner u look lonely audio over their shitty tiktoks its like an annoying fucking hybrid of bikertok gymrat bp fortnite dropshipping scamming join my class dumb as rocks young "entrepreneurs" whiny sad boy edits over a movie w ryan gosling dear basketball ass audio like im not a very easily bothered person but this shit gets me fuming i dont know why but tell me its not just me

Feels like I just got called broke by a god damn turkey

edit 1: stay out the damn ready to eat section

This girl on another subreddit said she wants a bf who's not bald and has a degree. Why are people explaining to her that being bald is not a choice and the college part is classist. Why do you care who a random girl wants.

I'm bi and sometimes I see the topic of lesbians not wanting to date bi girls. Ok? They don't have to date me, I certainly won't force them. But there's so many people telling them to change their minds.

Sometimes someone wants a virgin and is called insecure. I just think it's hypocritical if that person isn't a virgin themselves, but still, I don't care!!!

Why is it such an issue! Do people really want to be everyone's type?

Perhaps my point of view is colored by my having been ADHD as shit, neglected at home, in special ed math, and corporal punished by multiple teachers as a kid in catholic school. But whenever I hear someone talk about how hard it was being made to feel ✨ special ✨ as a kid only to grow up and become -gasp- normal, I wanna bury my head in sand. Most obnoxious fake-trauma ever like please tell me how hard it was being given too many gold stars and being the goodest noodle lmfao.

I was reading the thread on Rob Reiners sons trial and it was the usual “let the evil man rot” comments. Someone brought up his schizophrenia diagnosis + his alleged switching of meds as a response, and a very highly upvoted comment in turn was the following; “Not everyone with schizophrenia is a medication adjustment away from murdering their parents. Implying adjusting his medications caused this is also implying he played no role himself, and anyone else in his situation could have found themselves with the same result. This is not the case.”

…but it very literally is the case! Severe Schizophrenia is dangerous because being unmedicated or in a period of transition can cause you to act in ways completely outside your character!

I see it all the time with the BPD girlies. Some unmedicated psycho (respectfully) will set her house aflame with her children inside and all the comments will wail about how this woman in particular must be the incarnate of evil itself because they would never do that and they know someone with BPD who told them that they probably have it.

I don’t think mental illness should be stigmatized but I think culturally we may have lost the gravitas of it all.

it makes me really sad to see what seems to be an uptick in misogynistic social media content about "asu sorority girls" or treating women in college generally as sex objects. it just feels like we're going backwards in terms of feminism generally with how widely circulated these are.

women can be conventionally attractive and go out partying with their friends for the sake of having a good time. and even if they are doing it for the sake of hooking up with people, who gives a shit??? is that not part of life??? just kind of disgusts me that there are so many people who see videos of barely legal girls doing a coordinated dance or smth and jump immediately to publicly fantasizing about how many men have had sex with them.

inspired by a reel where a guy's first response to arch mannning leading texas's comeback was to spew fanfiction abt the "blondes of texas" waiting in his dorm room to the people of instagram.

If they tell me that they didn’t like Paris because it’s “dirty and stinky.”

thanks for the revelation, Mr. Disney Adult, you are the first person to ever say that!

It enrages me every single time I have to hear it. Physically makes me cringe. Why can’t you just say neurodivergent why do you have to say neurospicy.

I don’t even love this movie but I’m tired of catalogue apps like Letterboxd for this reason. Honestly shit like this and forcing myself to get back into reading and other hobbies I used to love like music and being outside has made me wanna get off social media for good. The whole side of Left meme internet is entertaining but the extent to which it acts as a genuine echo chamber for hate and cynical irony is so tiresome. This coming from someone who understands all the gravity of how fucked the world is today. But still, I’ve really come to think that being ironic all the time does a lot more than we can prob imagine to keep us apathetic and hateful than anything else. Even being online in this irony-verse. Community is obviously important but go find it in a way that is productive (not on some utilitarian bullshit but in a way that is sincerely fulfilling to you). This ended up diverting a lot from the original post I saw that pmo but I’m sure you get the point. Maybe this take is redundant but I see shit like this far less than “look at this cornball” posts on my timeline so whatever

I genuinely think that the cultural shift to working from home will be one of the worst things to happen to society. We were not meant to spend 8 working hours from home with greasy hair in pajamas. We were meant to live a short walk or transit ride away from our office, dress up like a presentable human being every day, interact with other people and grab a coffee on the way to the office, socialize and share ideas and fucking TALK to people in the office, grab happy hour drinks with friends after work, and then retire to our separate homes that act as a sanctuary away from work. Instead we all slouch on our couches staring into the vortex of a laptop screen becoming ever more disconnected from each other.

"But I live two hours commute away from my office!" Move. "But I hate my coworkers!" Find a better job. "But I love working from my bed!" Get a life.

Clout demon scammer aesthetic. Type of people who despite being broke as shit are always wearing Rick Owens. You may see them at 4100 hogging the pool table. Extremely stupid but will talk incessantly about simulation theory as if they have a higher understanding of the universe. “Loyalty is everything bro” but will rob you for your shoelaces. Most likely from an upper middle class Chicago suburb. Smelly.

My ex acted like an insane degenerate towards me during the relationship, like straight up demonic but apart from that he also saw himself as some sort of cute cat boy. Firstly I had to scratch and pet him all the time, which he sometimes offloaded to his mother or grandmother, the back scratching at least.
He painted himself as this whimsical little fussy creature, made cat noises, acted like an absolute diva in general. In response to something I said he would often respond with, „if I was a cat my ears would be like this right now“ while somehow gesturing laid back ears.

He was also an obese, really scruffy looking dude that somehow at the same time had the physical qualities of a Persian sissyboy but anyway.

Years after the breakup I now find myself in the scary situation of having another male prospect who again, compared himself to a cat. I feel haunted! That’s not all, they’re both similar in a outwardly repressed/asexual energy I think. Self identifying with being a goodboy, but clear signs of egocentricity that push attempts for conflict Resolution in a absurd loop of nonsense, deflection (and quiet contempt on his part). Both of them seem disingenuous when it suits them und occupied with seeing themselves as victims. Constantly updating me with their complaints about small things. Also OCD. Seeking out friendships with women that exceeds the average man. Very ambitious career wise but in favour of splitting 50/50, definitely doesn’t feel like impressing a woman by paying for meals or anything. But still very demanding in a way thats un-gentleman like and needy. The kind of energy where he would like calling me mommy but he’s not into the reverse like at all.

It took some time for me to expose these shared qualities and wonder why I didn’t clock it earlier with the new guy, as well as what it is about me that attracts this type of cat boy

Apparently he released a new one, I hoped Obama nostalgia would wear off but no

TLDR: I am losing my mind watching this unemployed bum get local fame for pumping out art while my career holds me back from creating the work that would easily outshine hers, and I’m genuinely ready to quit my corporate job just to prove it.

I live in a small city with a small art community, there’s this girl I truly hate who manages to post so many photoshoots and artworks weekly.

I can’t do that. I have a full-time job, real commitments and I have things to do and people to meet.

Whenever I actually sit down to plan or create something, the whole process feels rushed and it's below my standards.

Meanwhile, she has no job, endless free time, and gets showered with praise for everything she puts out.

It makes my blood boil because I know I’m better than her, she just has the luxury of zero responsibilities while I have to earn a living.

Her last job was a waitress at a failing coffeeshop meanwhile I have a corporate job, I make business deals happen, I am in daily contact with multinational corporations. She doesn't even have a car meanwhile I'm driving my dream car currently.

but guess what, I am losing sleep EVERY NIGHT because she's actually making cool art works and I am not.

I currently have her and her goofy art collective blocked on all my social medias but now even my friends started sharing her stuff.

I am legitimately thinking of quitting my job just to prove to her and to everyone that I AM the better artist