Female-aimed Trends That You Hate? - Sperg about recent trends you despise from media, make-up, social, etc

[isalaide]

5+ step skincare shit and other 'clean girl' sort of trends. I just don't get it at all. I try to be cleanly but I don't own 800 products. 1 facewash and some sunscreen does the trick

Moisturiser. I am enjoying the la Roche Posay Anthelios combined sunscreen and moisturiser currently.

 

[Super Guido]

Moisturiser. I am enjoying the la Roche Posay Anthelios combined sunscreen and moisturiser currently.

Personally, Cerave Moisturizing Cream was excellent for my eczema. Not a fan of their face wash, though, and they've partnered with Dyldo Mulvaney.

 

[sadbird]

Jellycat plushies

Actually don't get this one at all. They look like something I'd normally find in the child's toy section of the drugstore, and worth about 10$ at most.

 

[Crunchy Bone Sandwich]

I think the chinese BL novels and 3d animations ive been seeing for the past few years are fugly and extremely same-y. I couldnt get into LADS either, i think im just phobic towards chinese media in general

 

[Butterfly Dragon]

People can’t write character any more, they write a person who is there to put their ideology across. nobody is writing characters and telling stories in media any more, it’s just self inserts, bitchy one liners, and ideology. It’s crap.

Also how writers can't write female characters. It has to be a fucking one dimensional meat slab "cool girl" with no flaws as if that somehow makes it relatable to women. No, I think women deserve multifaceted and well written female characters for better representation or relatability.

I think that part of this is due to a decline in media literacy and people trying too hard to be socially correct. An example that immediately comes to mind is The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. People got mad cuz it features incest, even though incest was used as a way to express the degeneracy of the sibling's relationship. A lack of media literacy and self-policing makes us dumber as a population, as it eliminates free thought and the nuanced exploration of controversial ideas.

 

[Nameless One]

Andy and Leyley is a very mediocre story to use as an example of anything as snooty as "media literacy" lol nice try troon.

 

[ThePozzedOutCritic]

I think that part of this is due to a decline in media literacy and people trying too hard to be socially correct. An example that immediately comes to mind is The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. People got mad cuz it features incest, even though incest was used as a way to express the degeneracy of the sibling's relationship. A lack of media literacy and self-policing makes us dumber as a population, as it eliminates free thought and the nuanced exploration of controversial ideas.

If it's supposed to be scary then why do people jack off to it

 

[Chromeo]

I mean, from a personal experience, I absolutely hated the “ick” trend. Like how the fuck are you supposed to have a relationship with a nigga if you can’t like the random habits he does?

There are two sides to this, though. On the one hand, you can't turn away a whole-ass relationship based on one silly thing, nobody's perfect. On the other hand, you have to acknowledge that some "little things" build up and are indicative of larger problems, and you have to be honest with yourself whether or not you want to live the rest of your life with it. If your boyfriend is great but leaves the toilet seat up because he's genuinely not thinking, that's one thing. If your boyfriend has a porn addiction and tries to hide things from you and lies to you by omission and only admits the truth when you press him, and you keep having to do that, yeah it's a fucking problem that might be worth ending the relationship over even if it's "small."

 

[Boyfriend Free Girl]

There's several female-centric trends I hate:

• Romanticising promiscuity and it basically becoming a competition amongst OF e-harlots to see who can outwhore each other the most.
• Women who film themselves doing suggestive shit at a public gym.
• 'Girl boss' female characters that are written in a way that vilifies femininity and views it as a weakness.
• Solo-travelling, especially to countries like India where rape culture is highly prevalent.
• Overcomsumption of unnecessary skincare products and other mundane shit like Stanley cups.
• The expectation that women have to grovel to every protected minority group in existence, particularly trannies.
• Botox and other unnecessary cosmetic surgeries especially for women in their late teens and 20s.
• Man-hating trends like the Man vs Bear question.

 

[Cool Dude 69]

There's several female-centric trends I hate:

• Botox and other unnecessary cosmetic surgeries especially for women in their late teens and 20s

I am of the ilk that cosmetic procedures are physically and spiritually harmful, and above all coward shit. (Outside of debilitating disfigurements)

I don't care if it makes someone feel better about themselves or if it's harmless. It just speaks to a lack of character that I can't respect and emboldens the worst predatory people.

And the whole "You do you!" Mentality that people adopt about it.

There's this really great doc called About Face where famous supermodels from the past are interviewed and Isabella Rosilini says something on the matter along the lines of "I wonder if this isn't the new 'Foot Binding.'"
And... Lo and Behold they're finding that even non invasive aren't that great for you: filler just kind of migrates into your lymph nodes and Botox atrophies your facial muscles, not to mention implant sickness and crap like that.

 

[Destroy]

Jellycat plushies

These and the whole labubu doll thing seem completely astroturfed, they're just so cheap and tacky looking. Labubu especially; ugly plastic hypebeast figurines but for women. I wonder if this is how the beanie baby craze felt like to people looking on back then

 

[rosecig]

These and the whole labubu doll thing seem completely astroturfed, they're just so cheap and tacky looking. Labubu especially; ugly plastic hypebeast figurines but for women. I wonder if this is how the beanie baby craze felt like to people looking on back then

I assume everything posted by an "influencer" is an ad for some bullshit at this point. It's crazy how many people are spending all day watching ads for free.

Solo-travelling, especially to countries like India where rape culture is highly prevalent.

On the other hand, traveling to some Muslim country and claiming they are totally respectful of women and you'd rather live there than in the West actually!!

I don't get the hate for women travelling to normal places though.

 

[Free the Pedos]

The fact that so many of the luxury goods women have brainwashed themselves into wanting aren’t worth a fraction of the cost. Most are made in China and get a few finishing touches in Italy/France so they can claim to be made there.

 

[NoReturn]

The fact that so many of the luxury goods women have brainwashed themselves into wanting aren’t worth a fraction of the cost. Most are made in China and get a few finishing touches in Italy/France so they can claim to be made there.

A couple WWII generation women explained this to me as "Luxury goods made sense when we couldn't hold our own money" because if SHTF it held value well enough you could sell jewelry and such to survive. That's not true anymore.
Diamonds are worthless.
The market is flooded with "equivalent goods".
Younger generations have no fucking space because even people in their 30s don't own homes.
Etc. etc. etc.

 

[Arbiter]

They also target young women for egg harvesting despite how invasive it is and the side-effects.

To illustrate the egg '''donation'' shit, there was a case of death and one near-death because of internal bleeding at the same local fertility clinic, the living one had about 4,5 litres of blood sucked out of her abdominal cavity in the hospital, and it makes me wonder how was this even survivable.

I remember the first time I saw ads to sell your eggs on my college campus. I was shocked that was allowed to be advertised there and pretty horrified they target women fresh out of high school. Sperm donation creeps me the fuck out too. I feel like a guy has to be some kind of psycho to be okay with having kids out there that he doesn't know or have any involvement with. No amount of money would make that worth it to me, and I suspect many of them get a sick kick out of "spreading their seed" that way or something. I'd be worried that any kids made with donor sperm would also turn out to be psycho manwhores in some way.

 

[Twilight Twill*^]

I'd be worried that any kids made with donor sperm would also turn out to be psycho manwhores in some way.

Well, Icky Nicky spic Fuentes was made in a test tube. The process might've been different, but it's still godless anyway.

 

[Adrenochrome Dreams]

This trend has always confused me because I see people report a mix of genuine red flags (heavy drinker, disrespectful to others, gets in fights, etc.) and totally random stuff like "eats fruit yogurt" or "owns an orange shirt" and idk I just feel like that's not on the same level but you do you if that's a non-negotiable I guess. I'm all for women standing up for their comfort and safety but I also think it could be a bit unhealthy to fixate on frivolous details or to tinfoil about what an innocuous behavior "really indicates".

Honestly I may just be too autistic to get this trend. It all kinda goes over my head because I just don't regularly think about men in a "would I want to date or marry him" lens and don't care. I don't really feel like I have a generalized "type", I love one person and that's the extent to which I think about it. Mainstream attitudes towards dating have never made sense to me.

The ick is supposed to be about little innocuous things being irrational turn offs to the point of making the man in question repulsive to you.

It’s not supposed to be about actual red flags or harmless but valid turn offs.

“The Ick” came from UK dating reality show Love Island, which is what I came on this thread to post about.

I have no problem with trash TV, but Love Island is like watching paint dry. Why are women supposed to give a shit about low IQ 20 year olds with turkey teeth, sausage lips and radioactive orange skin all pretending to fancy each other.

 

[cis mans burden]

Almost everything in this thread is golden. But I don't think I saw anyone mention something that I hate and still manages to stick around:

Child beauty pageants, which almost exclusively of course affects young girls. But the worst part is that this mentality of adult beauty also has spread to things like cheerleading and dancing as well. It really upsets me that girls that just want to dance and have fun end up becoming disturbing facsimiles for sexuality. It's gross. Cuties as a movie I think is a prime example of how disgusting that culture is. The fact so many reality shows have been created around the sexualization of children really boils my blood. Thankfully, I think this trend is on the decline.

I want my daughter to enjoy singing and dancing and being a kid without being dressed up like a pedophile fantasy, is that so much to ask? Idk if I'll allow her into such things without knowing absolutely sure she can just be a kid.

Anyways, that's my biggest hated trend, more towards younger girls than adult females so hopefully it counts lol.

 

[Banditotron]

There's several female-centric trends I hate:

• Romanticising promiscuity and it basically becoming a competition amongst OF e-harlots to see who can outwhore each other the most.
• Women who film themselves doing suggestive shit at a public gym.
• 'Girl boss' female characters that are written in a way that vilifies femininity and views it as a weakness.
• Solo-travelling, especially to countries like India where rape culture is highly prevalent.
• Overcomsumption of unnecessary skincare products and other mundane shit like Stanley cups.
• The expectation that women have to grovel to every protected minority group in existence, particularly trannies.
• Botox and other unnecessary cosmetic surgeries especially for women in their late teens and 20s.
• Man-hating trends like the Man vs Bear question.

Every word you speak in this post is immaculately true. I wanna get this shit printed out and laminated.

 

[ThePozzedOutCritic]

Almost everything in this thread is golden. But I don't think I saw anyone mention something that I hate and still manages to stick around:

Child beauty pageants, which almost exclusively of course affects young girls. But the worst part is that this mentality of adult beauty also has spread to things like cheerleading and dancing as well. It really upsets me that girls that just want to dance and have fun end up becoming disturbing facsimiles for sexuality. It's gross. Cuties as a movie I think is a prime example of how disgusting that culture is. The fact so many reality shows have been created around the sexualization of children really boils my blood. Thankfully, I think this trend is on the decline.

I want my daughter to enjoy singing and dancing and being a kid without being dressed up like a pedophile fantasy, is that so much to ask? Idk if I'll allow her into such things without knowing absolutely sure she can just be a kid.

Anyways, that's my biggest hated trend, more towards younger girls than adult females so hopefully it counts lol.

I think a huge part of that has to do with how everything has to be publicized in some way. Even kindergartens need to have social media accounts that post videos of your kids without your knowledge. Your kid can't just join the cheerleading squad and be a cheerleader at her school the cheerleading squad also NEEDS to have an Instagram account where everyone can see her dancing including a bunch of creeps.