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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To summarise:

  1. Author recounts shitty conversations that men have where they objectify women
  2. Author thinks about women that are "known quantities" of conventionally attractive, and says they are "only as attractive as the pretty women one meets in real life," and attributes the difference to things like makeup, posing, photography etc.
  3. Author refuses to comment on why men have conversations mentioned in 1. (basically just perpetuating the amirite guys? chauvinism)
  4. Author proceeds to speculate on why women talk about other women's appearance.

This is just a LWer's version of a shitty greentext ending with "why are women like this?"

E: sorry for necroposting, this came up somehow and I didn't check which sack it was under.

this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2025
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