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.)
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.
South texas, land of the manly man.
Where men are men and sheep are nervous.
Cincinnati Ohio, and this concept of don't say good morning to guys is entirely foreign to me
I was gonna say, most of my coworkers skew older and this is a pretty usual morning thing. They take this stuff a lot less seriously than a lot of people online do. Kind of refreshing after assuming most people were this anal about social norms
"Brandon said hello to me."
"Yeah. That's understandable." In a low voice - "You know... He's..."
"Gay?"
"Nah, South Texas."
"But I don't hear it in his voice."
"Mom's from the North."
"Creepy."
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.
REAL MEN get on the ground and start 69ing when they meet another man.
Greeting another man in the morning?? What, did you wake up in his bed?
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.
"It's seven in the fucking mornin, don't talk to me till of had my coffeffe
Fellas is it gay to show basic courtesy to your coworkers?
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.
Remember to try to stick a finger in his ass in order to prove that every interaction between men is based on an implicit threat of violence.
