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i'll start. i saw a ask reddit post saying something along the lines of "men of reddit whats something women can't understand" and the comments were just. oh my god. the main one that made me want to puke was "when dudes walk by each other and nod" and the whole fucking thread was just fedoras with arms soypogging like it was some secret language or something. "when you nod upwards, it means respect!!!!!1!!11 when you nod downwards its aggression!!!1!11!!!!!" as if women dont do the same shit.

do you guys have something similar to share?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

unironicly think people who just post horny memes objectifying and degrading women on like r/animemes or whatever all the time should be taken out and shot

::: spoiler this accidentally turned into a rant about me being creeped on in reddit dms when i was still a minor even worse for people who do that but for femboys / trans people and then expect applause for sexually objectifying queer people instead with this fucking ~~under~~overcurrent of "you should be grateful that i want to fuck you and then toss you aside, the other guys want to kill you". especially bad if the cropped hentai posted is shota or some shit (people used to do this on r/196 in the fucking early days of its creation long before the tankie purge but also before the purge of explicit pedophiles (who iirc claimed that telling them to stop posting lewd drawn images of children was "suppressing their queer identity" which is just such a fucking disgusting thing to say even leaving aside the ammunition it gives to pedojacketer conservatives (the purge did basically nothing though except make them stop openly declaring as i can personally attest given that because i mentioned a few times that i was a femboy and shit i had some late guy in his late 20s start to DM me sexually on there despite it literally saying that i was only 16 or 17 at the time and despite me blocking him multiple times he literally just fucking kept dming me from alts for like two or three weeks or so (no prizes for guessing that he was a funny-clown-hammer fan)))). anyway that experience basically started me down the path of becoming an unironic misandrist

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

The deprogram sub. It’s just children yet to outgrow not questioning the nato narrative while claiming to be comrades

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

An anime meme subreddit decided to ban the use of a specific word as it was seen as a slur for trans people. This sparked a subreddit-wide civil war, and the sub split off into multiple new subs formed on the basis of being the same as the old sub but with slurs allowed. As a bonus, the sub that banned the slur became better, because it turns out exiling all of the people who want to use a slur from your community gets rid of mostly shitty people, although the positive change ended up being temporary as the spinoff subs burned out and everyone came back to the original.

Similar story: /r/hydrohomies was born because the original "drink water meme subreddit" was named after the N word and got quarantined. Same principle applies here but in reverse - all of the people who wanted to use slurs stayed in the original, and the new subreddit was a lot nicer as a result. Although by the time this split happened the meme was pretty stale so the people in the new sub were cringey for a different reason.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I've been nodding the wrong way for my entire life????????????? No one tells me fucking anything!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

In my neck of the woods, it's nod down for someone you don't know or someone you are being respectful of, and nod up for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I remember watching some behaviour analyst person saying that it's because nodding upwards exposes the throat displaying vulnerability and comfort with the other person. Nodding down covers the throat. Because humans frequently attack and bite other people's throats.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Asking Rapists why they did it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For a long time there was a subreddit that named after a racial slur for black people

The most concerning thing about it to me was how some of the most hateful posts were from non white (but also non black) people who were clearly trying so hard to be to be “one of the good ones”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

when does the narwhal bacon?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

r/4tran. At least it's private now.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t some Reddit “detectives” doxx someone incorrectly in a way that got them killed? Maybe “cringe” is too mild a term for that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it's the same incident I'm thinking of, it was during the Boston bombing incident. Random Redditors accused and doxed a random student as being the bomber causing him to take his own life

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Back when Fox news did a piece claiming there were Muslim enforced "no go zones" in various UK cities and suddenly every American was an expert on what it was like to walk around these cities.

I had an extended argument with this one guy who insisted he knew more about the place I was living and studying in at the time than I did.

Like, unparalleled levels of smug condescension.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Me a few minutes ago trying to get r*dditors to buy my books.

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