We also like sticks!
I know someone else who also likes sticks 🐕
Fuck off, dog. The stick is mine
That’s why we like dogs! Dogs like sticks, we like sticks! We throw sticks and dogs bring back sticks!
When I was a kid, my town had a bowling ball factory where they would leave the rejected balls in a big pile in back of the building, unguarded. In winter, we would sometimes nick a few and walk to one of the bridges on the local river which had iced over and drop the balls in. Dropping little rocks into water is cool and all, but absolutely nothing compares to the satisfying explosion from one of those bowling balls on ice.
A bowling ball factory with unguarded rejects sounds like paradise
Well, this was the late '70s when all kinds of crazy shit was going on that’s unheard of today. As another example, retail stores used to just leave handheld electronic games out on the sales counters where amoral young boys could easily slip them into their paper bags and stroll out the door with them and then tell their parents they’d “found them in the garbage”. Not that I would know anything about that kind of thing …
How can a woman make it to adulthood without knowing any men in real life?
She grew up on Themyscira?
Very religious single mother with lots of money from a divorce has a daughter, sends her to a girls-only boarding school, she studies theology and joins a convent, becomes a nun - now you have a thirty-something year old woman who has never known a man on a personal conversational basis (may have seen/heard them in passing, possibly a teacher or church leader as well).
(This is most likely not the case and purely exists as a ridiculous but possible answer to your question.)
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How did she get the daughter?
You do realize some daughters are born with asshole dads who abandon their mothers before they’re born, right? Not everyone knows their father on a personal level, some have never seen them …
The person who “has never known any men in her life” is the daughter here, not the mother…
That makes way more sense. I thought the woman sent the goal to boarding school so she (the mom) could become a nun…
It’s been a long week…
Yeah, I get it. I’m really not thinking straight either, it’s a Friday. Sorry if the reply came across a bit arrogant.
Nah, I totally missed it. Thanks for helping out. :)
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Reminds me of that one monk who lived his whole life without ever seeing a woman
I’m pretty sure he saw one way up close at the start of his life.
Already a better story than the one shes writing
I appreciate the worldbuilding effort
I’m so baffled that most people reading this don’t get its satire of a lot of comics, sci-fi, video games, etc but with the genders reversed and people thinking it’s a reasonable position.
The author isn’t being literal, they are making a joke about men who unironically say this and expect it to be considered normal.
Please don’t yell at me for this I am just the messenger.
That’s because there is good satire, and pretty often rubbish niche satire. Satire usually relies on everyone being in on the joke, accepting the ludicrousness of it. Political satire is good at this, gender stereotype satire is pretty deep psychologically layered stuff. Most people are not psychologically trained, or even people watchers. So the satire gets missed.
Or… All satire isn’t meant for you and that’s ok. It doesn’t automatically make it bad, good, or niche.
If it isnt as much of an everyman then its just punching down or an in-joke.
Or… Satire. Nothing wrong with an in-joke anyway.
To me, trying to be dispassionate here, that’s also an issue with capping tweets.
In a social media feed such as (pre-Elon) Twitter, if one were the depicted author one would expect ones followers to know you are a successful illustrator, political essayist, social commentator and published author on the topics of sexual violence in culture and an NEA fellow off the back of your successful graphic novel, putting the context of the original tweet in perspective and making the satire very obvious.
To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn’t the burden of that on the reader, not the author?
Man no get satire so satire bad! Man over analyze reason instead of just accepting it not for man and moving on! Grunting noises or something!
As a man, I feel personally attacked and it’s glorious. Most of the arguments between my wife and I are me over analyzing things.
I hope the author (if they’re actually writing something) goes hard on that concept.
To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn’t the burden of that on the reader, not the author?
Yes and no.
We have limited cognitive abilities as humans. With every bit of information on social and regular media screaming for our attention its easy to miss the nuance. Add to that even the difference in culture in countries side by side there can be barriers to this absorption generated by our various cultures. You have to actively break from cultural norms to explore these other ideas and philosophies.
Might well be a little too deep for “I dont know any men” type memes… 😅
Here’s a reward: 🎖️
You have the first correct use of “nuance” I’ve seen/heard in the last 50 uses of the word.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. I mean it.
My comment is a tangent and is not directly related to the ongoing discussion.
A fair point but also, if one wants to say “hey they didn’t give context to their joke, when the poster deliberately removed it from its contextual home!”, there’s nothing that can stop them, but also, they shouldn’t be surprised to find people asking them to understand the context before complaining about the lack of it.
Consider something like “I didn’t know Stevie Wonder was blind, and it’s therefore not my fault that I didn’t get the joke about Stevie Wonder being blind.”
Like, sure, maybe it’s not, but also, it would hamper any joke if you had to explain all context.
A rabbi, a priest, and an Iman walk into a bar (a rabbi is a spiritual leader and officiant in the Jewish faith, Judaism is a monotheistic religion, a religion is a set of beliefs that characterize a worldview including but not limited to spirituality, ethics, morals, social conduct and worship of divine beings…)
Nah, this is pretty good satire.
What you’ve never encountered one of those “went to an all-girls school then got a job at a daycare” chicks?
Single-sex schools still exist ? where ? I know a few people who went to those but they’re in their 70s now
Ireland
My coworker went to one and she’s 18. I’m in Australia.
well the closest I ever got to that was having an all-consuming hobby of attending aerobics classes and there were no men anywhere and I was so sexually frustrated. Had no idea how to meet men cuz all I wanted to do is go to a aerobics classes.
LPT for men: If you want to meet tons of thirsty women, go to aerobics classes.
lol nope. Meeting women at the gym is “creepy.” Had that screamed at me for years now.
It’s only creepy if you’re a creep.
Men who aren’t creepy aren’t creepy.
lol nope. That’s not what women say.
I am a woman.
You’re probably a creep if that is the message you are getting back from everyone.
Believe it or not, not all men are creepy.
Ladies of Lemmy: What y’all think of guys joining aerobics classes to meet women?
Pissing from great heights is a wonderful, wonderful feeling.
just watch out for the headwind
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Assert dominance, always piss into the wind.
JA’LOJA!!!
Always on the Bortus side of life
Digging holes (for any reason).
Y’all eating the metaphorical onion on this one
It is a sweet onion though.
Building a dam in a stream and forming a little lake. Then opening the dam and making a tidal wave.
That’s my favorite part of the book version of “IT.” The scene just captures childhood so well.
It wasn’t the weird kiddy gangbang scene then?
King’s cocaine pile must have looked like the one from Scarface at the point he wrote that.
I’m honestly surprised that Stephen King’s obsession with including child abuse and rape in his books hasn’t caused more waves in the age of twitter. Certainly a bit weird how Stephen King is often recommended to young adults.
I mean, I’m on board with young adults being familiar with abuse in print so if it happens in real life they have an idea of what’s going on.
One of the few times I can think of where a 100% accurate film adaptation of a classic novel would be a felony.
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Literally did this last weekend, in a freshwater stream at the beach. Im 34.
That was one of my favorite activities when I was a kid. We had a steam behind our home, I made a tiny little ecosystem for frogs and crawdads to hang out in, between the flowing parts of the stream 😊 fond memories.
I did something similar too but no animals. You had a great childhood 👍
Pizza Rolls.
Flooded quarries make the most amazing splash zones
Nodding off in a chair after a big meal.
Hopefully that’s Alex Hirsch’s sister and she also shares his creativity to make something great.
How does she not know any men? Suspicious.
She had two mothers and four grandmothers
Is this the dystopia (Insert anti-LGBTQ Grifter name here) warned us about?
shemba
its like all day bored and fun valhalla
Aw ya thats the shit
When I was 15 I used to drive my moped to a breakwater at a near lake and spend hours trying to bomb a piece of wood I threw in the water with stones.
Did you end up playing baseball or something later? Or winning a lot at the circus arcades? ;)
No, but I evolved and nowdays I’m using a David’s sling for increased range. Not the air defence system though. Unless someone knows a guy ofcourse?
Hey… that actually sounds fun I remember that as well! Have a good Friday!
