Maybe let people enjoy their hobbies? Is belittling other people for being enthusiastic about something the new chic?
Literally. You can say that shit about anything. Like omg a lil researcher. We’ll have fun with your beakers lil guy! Keep mixing stuff 🙃
Girls who like to knit are funny like “look at me I can make clothes out of string!” Yup you sure can lil one!
Ugh.
Nah, it’s been this way forever. Only, it used to be reserved for nerds and geeks enjoying d&d, comics, and whatever else wasn’t cool at the time. Society’s just at a point now where the jocks aren’t the defacto popular kids so their hobbies are fair game for ridicule now too.
This is satire. Sports enthusiasts are mainstream, The mainstream is notorious for looking down on other people’s hobbies being weird or not mainstream. Liking a sport is something almost everybody does. This is the little guy punching at the big guy, and that’s why it’s funny.
As soon as people stop shaming D&D players and furries and other niche interests, this sort of retaliatory satire will vanish.
I def agree that no one should knock a (harmless) hobbie, but I didn’t read the post as being mean. My reading was more that it’s genuinely thinking it’s cute that some guys get so excited about sports. At least, it’s better than the “ugh all men care about is sports” kind of angle.
Seems pretty blatantly infantilizing
Did that hit home? If you can’t be made fun of, you’re the bad guy.
I mean, that doesn’t check out if you think about it for more than 2 seconds.
Kk Winnie the Pooh.
You can run defense for football peeps all you want but football peeps live for shitting on people who don’t football
Or who football for the other team.
Until their team loses, then half will deny ever enjoying football in order to avoid being shamed for being with the losers.
My wife once asked me with a straight face if I had any “football cosplay shirts” and while it took me a minute to figure out what she meant, I couldn’t argue with her terminology.
It’s funny how cosplaying is seen as this weird niche nerdy activity… unless it’s as an athlete.
Although, having said that, we do have the term ‘full kit wanker’ in the UK, for anyone who buys the whole kit (not just the t-shirt, scarf or hat). Because, you see, there’s an acceptable quantum of cosplaying.
If I told people I planned to sit around for hours on a weekend watching TV, they’d call me lazy.
If I told them I was watching sports, they’d ask me what team I liked.
If I told people I planned to sit around for hours on a weekend watching TV, they’d call me lazy.
Pretty sure this stopped being true a decade ago.
True. Maybe if I said “video games.” That’s still frowned upon by some folks.
Wearing a jersey/scarf is more about showing which “tribe” you’re part of though. Going full kit is a bit different as it’s excessive.
True. But I think if I wore, like, a Star Trek comm badge, that’d raise more questions than if I wore an Arsenal t-shirt!
Why are furries looked down upon but people who dress in fursuits at sporting events viewed as figures of fun?
The sex part.
You mean the sex has to be covert instead of overt?
No, I mean school mascots aren’t doing it as a fetish.
I think it’s the same energy a lot of furries bring to participation in their community to be honest. I have met a lot of asexual furries who basically just want to be a mascot they just don’t have a school or sports team.
That or they want to be a big stuffed toy who can cuddle with friends in a big non-sexual pile. Probably something to do with abstracted intimacy… Something like most people don’t look at animals sexually so for some their fursonas are at least as much about avoiding being looked at in a sexualized fashion which they experience regularly out of costume.
Part of my situation being a part of the asexual community back in the early 2000’s was a lot of people coming to the concensus strangely independantly that I am some sort of leopard fursona. I went to one con back around 2006 to see what it was about and while the sexual fetish component was present in side booths it doesn’t seem like the costumes themselves are supposed to be sexy - More like individuals become notorious for their personality and confidence through character acting which is something more like mime… So basically just mascotting but doing it to hype your own brand rather than aerving someone elses? I think they definitely are doing it for notoriety, attention and recognition but not quite the sexual kind. The fetish stuff seemed to be about as much of a thing as hentai anime porn and overtly sexy cosplay is to the anime fandom and convention scene.
So…covert sex. Got it.
Nobody is trying to fuck the mascot.
These women just can’t understand that men dress and play sports for themselves, not to impress women.
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Another estrogen filled rant from the woman-splaining fem-ocracy!
Lemmy is weird today
I AM NO GAY, I WEAR ANOTHER MAN NAME AND NUMBER ON MY CLOTHES
I just want him to know that I know his favorite number :)
Women are so funny with their designer clothes and handbags, “I’m just like my favorite singer/actress!” haha, sure you are, lil princess 😀
Getting their nails done is hilarious, like aww, you gonna go change the way your hand operates so you can have your fun-time 3 inch long plastic shit gatherers? better show them off at the grocery store! 😜
somebody’s sensitive
me on my way to drive a wedge between the sexes until we live in genderstates and only convene once per year for breeding
For you that would mean less sex. For me, so much more.
Spending money on activities and on community is vastly better than spending it on non essential things and I’ll die on this hill.
You can’t act like there’s a substantial difference between the former and the later. It’s mostly a matter of opinion which things are trivialities and which things are important for happiness and community.
My dude its a funny post on the internet. Unlike your comment, which was just hateful and vitriolic.
Bet you’re fun at parties.
I don’t get it. I thought turnabout is fair play. I find both funny.
does the dr. mean american football or the real thing that the rest of the world calls football? because even if you let people enjoy their guacamole toast - rooting for a shitty copy of a real sport is even worse than just having this general smalldickenergy/identity crisis. that makes her roast even better.
