Sometimes I wonder if things like the hexbear bouncing cat emotes are a bit twee and cringe, but then I see the aesthetics the other side has run with...
I like the cat emotes. I want more girly stuff on here to balance out the edge. :cri:
Maybe I have too narrow a definition of "girly", but I think that emote's aesthetic is more "cutesy" than specifically "girly".
I fully support both to balance out the edge and appreciate cute things especially, such as :kitty-cri-texas:
Decades of trying to reeducate myself about what I'm allowed to like, leave it to Chapos to bring me right back to the start :agony-deep:
Hey, if it's not hurting anyone, you're allowed to like it as far as I'm concerned :heart-sickle: . I was just raising a point about taxonomy.
There's nothing wrong with women liking "boyish" things, right? So men liking "girly" things should be fair game too!
Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated. No worries tho, I didn't take it in a bad way from you or from Ideology. Nowadays "girly" doesn't mean much to me anymore, just reading it made me think of teenage years. It took some navigation to get away from the circles where it meant much at all.
I was in a rush, there's just a shortage of anything not-cishet-dudes in the emoji picker. Cool enby stuff and fem/soft boy stuff would be just as much of a pleasant change. There's lots of ways to be any gender but "man in suit" is what we can post normally. :glucker:
Edit: I was also attempting to push back on the idea that the blobcats are cringe, because there's a general trend in pop culture to view anything cute or "for girls" as more cringe than edgy "boy" stuff. Pop culture would view them as "girly" even if queer people and allies like us wouldn't. I don't think it's very fair and erases the ability of non-masc people to express themselves. Most of the time when I post, I feel like I have to de-emphasize feelings I have irl to kind of fall in line with norms that enforce emotional distance and a certain ironic machismo. It's only when I get deep in a comment thread where I start sounding like myself.
You are right of course, and that's honestly how I interpreted your original comment too. I was playing up the unfair reading of it and should have probably communicated I didn't mean it so serious. Or I should just drop the sarcasm in the first place lol
Reading that I asked myself "do I sound like myself here? how do I present?" and, after spending a while thinking about it, I just don't know. It's a little disconcerting, but probably not as much so as actively pretending to be someone else.
It's pretty normal to have masks or sociolects. I think the main thing is how you feel about the parts of yourself they bring out or suppress. Like I act a little different in queer threads or comment threads than I do responding to people I suspect are cis/straight or white because letting your guard down in the latter instance feels more vulnerable.
I shat that comment out on my break, oops. My main point is that 90% of our emojis are dudes HARD POGGING. Sometimes I just want to feel cute without being flirty.
I don't read the little meows as girly at all. but they are cute :meow-melt:
Nah, I don't see them as a fem thing, was more pushing back on the "cute things are cringe" idea in the OP.
The part of me which is an addict is hurt by this comment
The part of me which was raised by my alcoholic bigot of a father is like :spongebob-party:
The part of me which was raised by my alcoholic bigot of a father is like :spongebob-party:
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Addiction is a hard struggle to deal with, friend. If it's any consolation, I'm glad you're still here to :spongebob-party: with us.
We didnt take a dead meme and pass it through a woodchipper of hateful ideology to then babify it.
We proudly embrace what we like and as the maker of these three emotes in particular, :meow-tankie: :meow-anarchist: :left-unity-4: It fills my heart to see them used so much here
I also did these :soviet-bottom: :anarcho-bottom: i’ve been wanting to take a crack at a few more
you've done more for left unity than the entire DSA
I really love those. Thank you for your service :rat-salute:
I'm always in the market for more thinks and thonks, if you're looking for stuff to make.
After 20+ long years
Ok I’m gonna just assume they were victims of fetal alcohol syndrome and started drinking from birth. I cannot rationalize a 40+ year old talking like this
You don't know enough white midwestern boomers. An entire fucking generation of overgrown children.
This probably isn't a boomer (not that generational analysis isn't dumb), but probably a gen x'er. Hell, it could be someone on the old edge of the millenials. The youngest possible boomers are 58 now.
In this context, I will say I have never seen nor heard any adult speaking like this, haha. My deepest sympathies to you if you know people like this.
For Halloween a few years back, a married couple that are childhood friends of my mom did a couples costume: the lady stuck LED lights on her chest, the guy put on deer antlers. They did a "deer caught in the headlights" bit all fucking night.
That's the kind of white boomers I know.
that sounds like it would have been funny for all of two minutes at absolute maximum, stretching it out over an entire evening sounds absolutely torturous
stretching it out over an entire evening sounds absolutely torturous
But what if that is the bit?
I don't think they're that self-aware, and also that kind of comedy only really works on TV.
I’m surrounded by them and not a single one has ever done anything like this either (as far as I’m aware lol)
Yeah, "lub you uwu <3". My father has never told me he loves me, LMAO.
I will say that white midwestern boomers are usually pretty jovial. It's just that their sense of humor is incredibly reactionary and if you call them out on it, my god. They throw temper tantrums that put toddlers to shame.
Every single time I have seen "fren" said in the internet wild, I have tested just how unaffiliated to fascism the speaker was by deliberately trying to drop his mask.
Every time, the mask came off. It didn't take much, either.
It's cutesy nazi baby talk, but the moment they see "trans rights are human rights" or some very basic slogan like that, the mask drops like it's made of lead and they show the froth. :frothingfash:
I think this is the only outlet the right has for dropping toxic masculinity and actually speaking about their problems in an honest and unguarded way which is the reason it has stuck around despite being just a niche subreddit that was successfully killed while it was still pretty small.
nazis are ridiculous and fucking stupid and need to be mocked.
What's the most efficient firearm to mock nazis with?
silence, fed. brand new account account posting about violence and inviting people into off-site chats.
lol as if labor law is real. burn down a family dollar near you!
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2675199
honestly this is the reason i am now okay with political violence. why I just cannot give a shit about random lib lives anymore.
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2674754
so does anyone have an not-super-tracked resources on 3d printing guns?
https://hexbear.net/post/211276/comment/2675528
so i guess im in favor of burning down tim hortons now.
https://hexbear.net/post/211293/comment/2675400
gotta kill all the racists if you want your reconstruction to have sticking power.
https://hexbear.net/post/211219/comment/2674682
does this have groups/private threads, or are we going to matrix or signal or something?
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2675473
Death to America
The fascists are getting pretty much anything and everything they couldn't have dreamed of a few decades ago and they're still depressed.
It's a reminder that fascism never stops killing and purging. If fascists truly took over the world, they would continue killing each other in the name of purity until one was left, that would then kill themselves. :scared-fash:
:cat-vibing:
This is how I imagine my life after communism has replaced capitalism...literally just boppin all day long
:chairman-meow: "When all can bounce freely the revolution will have truly been successful."
I wonder if things like the hexbear bouncing cat emotes are a bit twee and cringe
I used to think this same thing. Cringe is the secondhand embarrassment we feel as we see people perceive themselves one way and portray themselves another by accident. I’ve found that part of clearing away my patriarchal brainworms has been expanding the expressions which I perceive as intentional. A lot of it just boiled down to, “no man would look that effeminate on purpose” or some similarly sexist garbage. So wiping that away has made me cringe way less often. Because I see that people are generally quite aware of how they come off most of the time. I was, out of habit, putting on a performance for no one to avoid consequences which wouldn’t have bothered me.
I don’t know if this is the case for you and I don’t mean it as an accusation*. Just wanted to share my thoughts
*Also, am I nuts or is this a primary way for people to interact on TikTok? Instead of just sharing their own experiences, they have to construct some intellectual-sounding generalization and project it onto others
