cockblockedbydestiny

cockblockedbydestiny t1_jegplin wrote

This is also the reason comedy gets unfairly shit on: in the name of white knighting or whatever people will deliberately misunderstand the butt of the joke and assuming whomever is saying it is perpetuating harmful stereotypes. This in spite of how ridiculous it would be for an obviously intelligent, talented person to be saying this stuff for real (and that it usually wouldn't even qualify as a joke to begin with if they were being serious about it)

Artists need to have the freedom to depict problematic characters or situations, otherwise it just comes off as preaching

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cockblockedbydestiny t1_jegoz7q wrote

Since we're talking posts as well, I'll nominate that thing people do where there are already active posts on a topic, but they'll pretend they didn't see them and start another about the exact same thing... presumably because they see the subject is getting a lot of engagement and want to reposition it with themselves as the center of attention.

On a case-by-case basis I can't prove that's what any given individual is doing, but it happens way too often and sometimes it's such an out-of-the-blue topic that I have a hard time believing the 2nd guy thought of it independently without having seen the other post. Plus you can often tell it's about them getting attention because they're usually some thread-sitting mfers lol

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