I hate to break it to everyone, but we're all weird. You just stop trying to hide it at a certain age, or forget to. But yes, Biden weird and Trump weird are two different universes.
Have you expressed insecurity with your size? It sounds like she's trying to reassure you.
Not all of us, including myself, were destined to be porn stars, my friend. If it's a relationship based on more than physical attraction, it shouldn't matter. And there are lots of ways to please a partner... :P
So we want people to have an equal outcome. That's perfectly fine, and something I fully support. The difference is that no one in the right image has to be treated badly for everyone to be happy. If we accept that, in the abstract and lacking full context of possible consensual behavior between adults, objectifying people sexually is treating people badly, then we shouldn't want it for anyone, nor find it amusing.
Hmm, you're kind of sounding a little pissed though...
I've been on Reddit for years and never seen Americans claiming we're number one. Quite the opposite actually. Same here so far. Not sure where you're hanging out that you're hearing Americans saying that, but I would argue that it's a minority view. As far as converting for us, I would say, don't. The sooner Americans have to go do it themselves, the sooner everyone else in the world can stop caring about it.
Or, hear me out here, maybe if they're going to jail they aren't "good guys". Or has the right decided our legal system isn't perfect after all? Can't have both!
What I don't get is the intensity. I can't tell if it's sarcasm maybe, or just a cultural difference in how people talk? Like, I can take a good ribbing about using weird units of measurement, but some non-Americans seem genuinely pissed off about it. Seems like a waste of energy for something that almost never affects you if you're not American. I mean, most of us Americans were born with it, it's not like we got a say or anything. We kind of have more pressing matters right now, maybe give us a few decades before we worry about our measurement system?
That's a roundabout way of saying that all men should be okay with it because some men have historically done the same thing to women, which is what I meant by the word "payback". I disagree with the premise that one is acceptable but not both. Either both are or both aren't, that's the only position that actually describes equality.
It doesn't have to be persecution to be sexist and therefore hypocritical in a culture that claims to be opposed to sexism. I'm personally fine with a joke like this, I just also happen to think that if the characters in this one were reversed there would be all sorts of outrage and accusations of toxic masculinity.
Also, as long as people perceive it as a net benefit they'll put up with all kinds of privacy invasions. Being part of a society is always a tradeoff of certain liberties for certain securities.
I hope you're right. Something about the scope and type of change we're seeing here feels quite different. It can be mistake too to assume that things will go the way they usually have. I wouldn't advise anyone to be complacent. We had to have something close to a second civil war in the US to get things like an 8 hour day.
Everyone here will pretend they would be fine with it now that you called out the hypocrisy. Or they'll argue men deserve it as some kind of "payback", in which case it's really not about equality of course.
I vaguely remember that they were being held captive and the devices would punish them for misbehaving. Like, some guy lived with a bunch of female robot slaves or something and the episode ended with him having to live with a robot version of his deceased henpecking wife? Shit I don't know, it's been like 30 years since I watched the original series...
Yeah, it seems like all the answers I get boil down to: people don't like them because they just don't like them. Which is perfectly fair, I'm not sure why I was expecting a more nuanced response from anyone. It's sort of like how some people like chocolate and others don't. Who can say why really? It is interesting though that Lemmy seems to have a disproportionate share of vocal meme detractors.
I think Trump is younger. He's a monster, but still younger than Biden.