IdleRich
IdleRich
Now this is something that came to me second-hand through people taking the piss out of it, but that led to me iooking into it as I realised there had to be a real thing happening somewhere for people to bother taking the piss - and there definitely is a real thing.
So what I'm talking about here is people desperately worrying about things that might make them look gay and going online to ask people about it. And, extra weirdly, I have also seen women talking about it and judging men according to these insane criteria, so, while it's obviously totally bonkers, I suppose you could say that in a way, if you are interested in a certain type of woman, there is a sort of reason to care. IF that is you're incredibly insecure, desperate and very very sad...
Anyway, what I'm on about isn't really clear without some examples so... (nb this thing is so stupid that people are often making up fake ones and so you have to be careful when quoting - however the below are genuine to the best of my knowledge and [admittedly limited] research)
The first thing I saw was a little while back on a clip from some podcast where the two guys hosting it were taken aback when their two female guests told them entirely seriously that it was "sus" if two men went to the cinema together.
That's a relatively mild one compared to what I saw today where - in a similar set-up - the flabbergasted hosts' female guest told them that for her it was "A red flag if a man wrote emails using lower case - like why would he want to appear feminine?"
More often than not though these weird attacks or whatever they are tend to be men on men (as it were). I saw this thing from some sort of car forum where people were talking about filling up their cars - this one guy said something like "Why are so many of you driving cars? Give the car to your wife, real men drive trucks"
A good one was a question from an (understandably) confused young man. The gist of it was how he had recently had a different schedule which meant tht had to walk to work with his Dad or something, maybe catch the bus from the same place in the mornings. Anyway this guy would often greet people he knew who went past by saying "Good morning" until his dad took him aside and quietly advised him to stop saying good morning cos "People will think you're a bit funny".
So this poor guy had taken to the internet to ask "Is it gay to say good morning?".
Anyway there are loads of examples like the above a recurring one is when there is a photo of a man and a woman and they draw all these lines on the pic to work out who is leaning towards whom, and if a man is leaning into the woman then he's probably gay or at least is a simp who is under her thumb or something (I dunno why and I don't mean it as an insult at all, but simehow I just bet that @version has read about this particular thing and could explain it much better than I can).
So, anyway, there's loads of this stuff, why is it happening? Has the world gone even more mad than before or was this always there and I just never noticed? Is it the internet or is that just a pointless answer that is kind of true of everything but never the whole picture
So, discuss it, explain it to me, or failing that, just find some funny (ideally real) examples... Go!
So what I'm talking about here is people desperately worrying about things that might make them look gay and going online to ask people about it. And, extra weirdly, I have also seen women talking about it and judging men according to these insane criteria, so, while it's obviously totally bonkers, I suppose you could say that in a way, if you are interested in a certain type of woman, there is a sort of reason to care. IF that is you're incredibly insecure, desperate and very very sad...
Anyway, what I'm on about isn't really clear without some examples so... (nb this thing is so stupid that people are often making up fake ones and so you have to be careful when quoting - however the below are genuine to the best of my knowledge and [admittedly limited] research)
The first thing I saw was a little while back on a clip from some podcast where the two guys hosting it were taken aback when their two female guests told them entirely seriously that it was "sus" if two men went to the cinema together.
That's a relatively mild one compared to what I saw today where - in a similar set-up - the flabbergasted hosts' female guest told them that for her it was "A red flag if a man wrote emails using lower case - like why would he want to appear feminine?"
More often than not though these weird attacks or whatever they are tend to be men on men (as it were). I saw this thing from some sort of car forum where people were talking about filling up their cars - this one guy said something like "Why are so many of you driving cars? Give the car to your wife, real men drive trucks"
A good one was a question from an (understandably) confused young man. The gist of it was how he had recently had a different schedule which meant tht had to walk to work with his Dad or something, maybe catch the bus from the same place in the mornings. Anyway this guy would often greet people he knew who went past by saying "Good morning" until his dad took him aside and quietly advised him to stop saying good morning cos "People will think you're a bit funny".
So this poor guy had taken to the internet to ask "Is it gay to say good morning?".
Anyway there are loads of examples like the above a recurring one is when there is a photo of a man and a woman and they draw all these lines on the pic to work out who is leaning towards whom, and if a man is leaning into the woman then he's probably gay or at least is a simp who is under her thumb or something (I dunno why and I don't mean it as an insult at all, but simehow I just bet that @version has read about this particular thing and could explain it much better than I can).
So, anyway, there's loads of this stuff, why is it happening? Has the world gone even more mad than before or was this always there and I just never noticed? Is it the internet or is that just a pointless answer that is kind of true of everything but never the whole picture
So, discuss it, explain it to me, or failing that, just find some funny (ideally real) examples... Go!
