https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahclazarus/status/1458624042714341378

She works for the pod Johns, which I guess isn't shocking.

      • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        is this unironic chauvinism? is that the world we live in? where unironic female chauvinism is rampant and a woman on twitter reads the room and decides "my audience of a bunch of women are all parasitic, conniving bloodsuckers so I'm sure they'll get a kick out of this totally sincere, unironic chauvinism I'm about to post on twitter"?

          • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            imv It's a variant on the joke where one character says, "I just broke up with my girlfriend!"

            Then the well-meaning-but-awkward friend / acerbic parent will say "Well, you're never going to do so well as her again!"

            I feel like That 70's Show did this a lot with Eric and Donna's relationship, if you watched that. Sort of a kick the puppy joke, you find someone who's mourning then say something that makes it worse because it's hilariously true.

          • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            the joke is that she sided with the woman instead of her friend so she inverted the usual "my friend just got dumped" stock phrases

            • MasterShakeVoice [undecided]
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              3 years ago

              I see. She should probably have used 3 stock phrases then, to improve the joke density and cut the verbal shrug at the end.

              • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                You guys are way too ready to read this tweet in an unrealistically hostile “we use our bodies to manipulate men, right sisters? hahaha look at them grovel, those dogs” cartoon harpy voice

        • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          idk if it's ironic or unironic, I think the joke sort of rests on that. I'm not accusing anyone in this of being a parasitic bloodsucker. I just found it to be a mean joke, and certainly not a joke that would arise from solidarity.

          • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            idk man, I haven't seen a single she/her comrade get offended in this thread, and I think it's because they spend more time in female-skewing spaces online and listening to other women's jokes in person and and they have a better ear for tone in the jokes other women tell

            • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              i'll admit i might be a little reactive to this, lmao. if i heard this joke irl i'd probably take it in stride

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I can see that angle. In and of itself, it's harmless joke and instances of female solidarity are always dope. That said, when she uses the qualifier "friend" it changes the context a lot. I clown on my boyz all the time; but when someone is hurting, that's probably not a great time to remind them of their supposed inferiority. I'm not saying you're sayin' that, of course, I'm just saying this joke changes a lot when one says that they're someone's friend. At least, it does for me.