I don't know whether to blame this on reddit, toxic masculinity, or plain old British culture, but it seems that men on the internet will take absolutely anything as a sign of weakness, which means you don't deserve their help.

If you don't know the answer, just say so, don't be a little bitch about it and tell me to give up.

Can't believe I made an account for this.

  • Stoatmilk [he/him]
    hexbear
    46
    4 months ago

    Some time ago, before all the machine-written articles took over, if you tried to google for just about any cooking advice in my native language, you would always get a forum thread where the first three comments were old men berating the OP for even daring to ask the question, as if everyone was just born with the knowledge of how many potatoes go into a soup

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

    Insist on the wrong answer so that they feel like they must correct you.

  • Angel [any]
    hexbear
    31
    4 months ago

    I had to leave Reddit because it muddied my perception of humanity. They really will turn even the most trusting person into a misanthrope, and they don't even try to. That's just the way Redditors are. It's in their nature just like fish swimming, squirrels climbing trees, and pigeons flying.

    • @AlkaliMarxist
      hexbear
      29
      4 months ago

      Scrolling r/all is like mainlining contempt.

      • dannoffs [he/him]
        hexbear
        23
        4 months ago

        I used to scroll r/all all the time before the API debacle and I thought it was okay until I saw it without my massive filter list I'd been building for almost a decade.

        • @AlkaliMarxist
          hexbear
          15
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          Yeah it gets ok after about a year of blocking subs which suck more than average, but I deleted my account after getting sucked into one to many stupid arguments and now going on raw r/all just instantly fills me with a mix of anger and despair.

    • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      14
      4 months ago

      its so funny that when I first found reddit in 2011 I was always frustrated by how fucking positive everyone was all the time, even if it was a LARP

      • @GinAndJuche
        hexbear
        4
        4 months ago

        Thanks for gold kind stranger!

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  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
    hexbear
    21
    4 months ago

    Sounds like the majority of men in the American South. First time I ever heard that liking to cook or bake meant you were gay according to them