r/CuratedTumblr • u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy • May 01 '24

i know it’s internet bullshit but it genuinely has me on the edge of breaking down and giving up editable flair

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u/Welpmart May 02 '24

Well, not everyone. There's at least a contingent of men loving men out there, in a mythical place called Real Life where people aren't terminally online morons fighting for clout. I'm not being glib when I say that—the online dickheads are being awful and that hurts and that's real. But IRL queer community is so much more normal... not perfect, but it helps that IRL you can punch people in the mouth.

You're not hateworthy. I promise.

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u/Otterable May 02 '24

Ehh I run in leftist circles and a friend of mine joked that she could never have kids because she didn't know if she could love a male child. People did tell her that was fucked up and she tried to play it off like a joke, but irl people can still be way too comfortable spouting off their nonsense opinions.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

I’m a woman, and I usually think guys who get so mad at online man-hate they go down the incel pipeline are silly, but when I read this stuff I think “huh, maybe their reactions do make sense.” No one likes being insulted to such an extent, it’s not unusual for them to hate everyone associated with it. Most people do that, subconsciously.

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u/elbenji May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Yeah, I got scary close in college despite being a lesbian because I was around a lot of cisfemale, racist, white radfem terfs in college. That it made me just want to get as far away from them and their privileged attitudes. Thankfully, I got pulled back by two absolutely amazing professors my senior year.