You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

Not A Bunny said:
I wish women would stop with this bullshit about needing to feel "empowered".

One of the social groups on my social media feed posted that she wanted to form a group of women to "empower" each other.

Like...what ever happened to women just being friends? Even if you wanted to start a group akin to The Old Boys' Club, do you think that the men who start those talk like this to each other? No, men don't do that because it doesn't sound like interested in forming relationships that are particularly fulfilling or even particularly fun.

Yeah, those guys discuss business over bourbon and cigars, but at least they're enjoying what they're doing and they don't need to constantly point out how "empowered" they feel about the power moves they're making. They're just doing things.

And that's what I hate about all of this "women in..." shit I see in tech. If the only point you ever have to make is patting yourself on the back for having a vagina and showing up, you're never going to do anything useful, and more to the point, you're telling on yourself that you absolutely, positively HATE not being a man.
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Dudes don't ever feel the need to see other empowered dudes because they know that empowerment comes from within. You're either your own man or you look to others for validation of your status and chicks mostly take the latter route.
 
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WhatInTheActualFuck said:
Dudes don't ever feel the need to see other empowered dudes because they know that empowerment comes from within. You're either your own man or you look to others for validation of your status and chicks mostly take the latter route.
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Feminization is exactly where the "representation" argument comes from, and that includes things like careers.

For the longest time, I've heard that there aren't "enough" women in tech because then you wouldn't have mommy figures for little girls. The fact that people think girls need "permission" to do a thing because women do them is exactly the kind of bullshit that keeps women from exactly the kind of equality that feminists claim to want.

There is, of course, the theory (to which I subscribe) that feminists aren't looking for equality; they are looking for special privileges.
 
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Was reading a nice little feel-good story comparing the Detroit Lions actually having a really good year coinciding with Detroit (very) slowly turning its troubles around. The article then had a paragraph explaining that this wasn't good enough for niggers because the mayor's focused on getting money into the city and developing downtown, instead of throwing that money into their financial black holes communities. Why are niggers and journoscum like this?
 
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Sniperwoof said:
Why the fuck is everyone so snotty, rude and antagonistic?

It's becoming a genuine rarity that I meet anyone who's friendly or hell even neutral instead of immediately aggressive and hostile.

It's never been this bad in my lifetime, what the fuck is going on?
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When people are often shitted at for being nice, punished for nice deeds by the (((government))), often mistaken as evil when doing nice things (hence why men can't help children in public otherwise its either parental abuse or he's accused of pedophilia) and just treated as shit overall in public, don't expect people to be nice out of the gate.
 
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WULULULULU said:
When people are often shitted at for being nice, punished for nice deeds by the (((government))), often mistaken as evil when doing nice things (hence why men can't help children in public otherwise its either parental abuse or he's accused of pedophilia) and just treated as shit overall in public, don't expect people to be nice out of the gate.
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Which really sucks because instinctively I want to do the nice thing and be helpful most of the time, but people always give me reasons to not bother.
 
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People who have an issue with themselves, but rather than try remedy it, expect you to pick up the slack for them in that department. For example: the type of person with poor eyesight that will routinely leave their glasses at home when going out, but then tell you "can you do that for me?/what is this? You know I can't see!"
 
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People who have an issue with themselves, but rather than try remedy it, expect you to pick up the slack for them in that department. For example: the type of person with poor eyesight that will routinely leave their glasses at home when going out, but then tell you "can you do that for me?/what is this? You know I can't see!"
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I feel this has gotten 100X worse than it used to be in recent years..very much coinciding with the Covid Lockdowns.
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
I feel this has gotten 100X worse than it used to be in recent years..very much coinciding with the Covid Lockdowns.
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That's what always struck me as weird about all.of the COVID prevention measures. It was always: "you need to do this FOR ME".

Why? I don't even know you. And we as a society have never truly operated as if we are beholden to anyone we don't choose to be.

And most people don't even recognize how unhealthy it is. Well, maybe they do. Maybe it's a power move to control people's behaviors with your feelings.

I always called COVID restrictions a large-scale abusive relationship for a reason.
 
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