• supafuzz [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      60
      4 months ago

      Living people
      are soft and tender.
      Corpses are hard and stiff.
      The ten thousand things,
      the living grass, the trees,
      are soft, pliant.
      Dead, they’re dry and brittle.
      So hardness and stiffness
      go with death;
      tenderness, softness,
      go with life.
      And the hard sword fails,
      the stiff tree’s felled.
      The hard and great go under.
      The soft and weak stay up.

      Lao Zi (LeGuin trans.)

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
    hexbear
    80
    4 months ago

    This isn’t universal. I work with some downright chuds, and they will say good morning to me. South texas, land of the manly man.

  • Awoo [she/her]
    hexbear
    49
    4 months ago

    The tweeter and the redditor are the same person.

    You can create bait content so fucking easily. Shit loads of the anti-SJW stuff back when that was the word of the week was actually far right fuckheads making the posts themselves sounding like some ridiculous cartoon version of a feminist that they have in their heads. Then they would repost that shit to places like tumblrinaction and have it do the rounds on the internet.

    It's so fucking easy to create hatred for groups via creating cartoon bait online and making people believe that they're real people despite the fact you will never ever ever meet a real person behaving that way.

  • LocalMaxima [she/her]
    hexbear
    32
    4 months ago

    Greeting another man in the morning?? What, did you wake up in his bed?

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
    hexbear
    28
    4 months ago

    The only appropriate way for heterosexual men to greet each other is to say "Good Evenin" the way Levon Helm does at the start of The Last Waltz.

  • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
    hexbear
    13
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    Saying "what's up" to man is pretty gay. All male interactions with another male are supposed to be inherently violent. Next time, say "what's up, fuckface?" In order to not come off as a raging homosexual.