There's a one minute video with the joke in the tweet.

Aside from from the obvious shit on whether you should wokescold stand-up comedians (of course you should), it made me think about the weird position straight cis dude gender nonconformity has in today's progressive spaces. Like there are people with trans flags in qrts explaining that a straight guy having his nails painted is a bad sign.

Here in Russia when I was growing up you could get beat up for being a guy with painted nails. One time I almost did.

  • Anemasta [any]
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    2 years ago

    It seems like there's a stereotype that straight dudes do gender nonconforming stuff to manipulate progressive girls into sleeping with them. A whole bunch of women in qrts are going "they do be like that."

    Eerily similar to the whole "predatory male feminists" thing.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, it's a thing. And it's ugh. No, GNC/feminist guys aren't assholes at a higher rate than normal guys. People be horny, people in progressive spaces doubly so.

      There's also this "my bad relationship was because the guy was ontologically evil and not because we just wound each other up and were shitheads to each other" thing going around that's trivialising abuse and I'm not a fan.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      2 years ago

      Literally doubling down on gender stereotypes when people are non-conforming.