If you can’t make judgments on a person at a glance, then you’ll never have any idea of how to react to their presence. You’ll never know what they might want from you, if they want something from you, or more importantly, if they might pose a danger to you.
We have to be perceptive of others if we want to have any ability to function as a social collective.
@Background Pony #6560
I see what you mean on the showering thing, but a person should only have to satisfy one person to be happy with what they’re wearing.
There’s also the fact that personal hygiene and fashion are almost entirely under your own control, so if you choose to dress in a way that looks bad or choose not to shower or shave, then it’s easier for people to judge you harshly for it.
@Zennistrad
Nah, I just kind of shake my head at it. People always say that there’s nothing wrong with being a nerd and that nerds are cool, but hate awkwardness that often comes with nerdiness. It’s just kind of sad.
And yet again you’re proving my point by automatically assuming this is “hatred.” Does anything here seem in any way hateful to you? Don’t get me wrong, I won’t ever condone bullying, but you have to understand that not everything that makes fun of someone is bullying.
Making jokes about awkwardness is really nothing new. People have been making jokes about awkward people for a long time now. Hell, just take one look at Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons, he’s practically the same thing that’s being made fun of here
So what are you going to do about that? Are you going to start a “Down With Comic Book Guy” movement on Tumblr for making a joke you don’t like?
|| The problem isn’t that these images are offensive or bullying or anything like that. It’s that people confuse memes with jokes. People think a meme is a punchline. Inevitably, people who wnat to fit in start misusing the joke, slowly and brutally beating a once majestic dead horse. Euphoric fedoras used to have meaning. Now people just slap a neckbeard and cheetos on any image that looks like it has a hat. ||
@Zennistrad
It stops being a “gentle ribbing” when anyone with any sort of mild awkwardness is automatically showered with hatred and assumptions. It could be more than a joke to the people who are being made fun of. They’re trying to find a way to be comfortable in the world, and people telling them that they’re wrong for doing it aren’t helping. It makes them feel terrible and hopeless, that society is against them no matter what they try.
What bothers me about you is that you seem to have this knee-jerk reaction to any kind of image like this that seems to be unable to just ignore it and move on. Instead, you have to leave some kind of grouchy comment and inevitably derail the comments into some argument.
You seem to be under the impression that making a simple joke about someone being awkward is somehow the same as bullying, which anyone with a level head knows is untrue. So far you’ve displayed a crippling inability to read the tone of an image, and are unable to distinguish a gentle ribbing from a mean-spirited or hostile attack.
Honestly, I can understand that. About a month ago I ended up getting really angry at a joke that I thought was racist. But the thing to understand is, it’s not always worth it to get so angry over a simple joke. It’s just an utter waste of emotional energy.
@Zennistrad
What’s wrong with either of those things? Why does how someone else dresses bug you so much? Is it their problem or your problem that you find how they dress unacceptable?
