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Not exaggerating when I say this comic was the cultural version of a war crime (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I said what I said

Also I'm high

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[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Fairly obvious that a lot of people's resentment towards sports comes from simply not being good at it in school and getting picked last for the team or whatever. It's like the inverse of people hating on nerds, where it's obvious that they hate nerds because they were never good at math in school.

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder how old people with takes like this are.

If you grew up before 2010 and nerd culture you would realize that liking sports was not optional. You were mocked as gay. You couldn't keep up in small talk with your boss and would get passed over for promotion. It was mandatory to watch sports or you would be stigmatized. There was eventually pushback to that hegemony via the "sportsball" meme and mocking sports for being silly. Everyone seems to have forgotten how oppressive and toxic American sports culture was (and continues to be, schools are still getting gutted to make way for more football shit. Stadiums are still built with slave labor. Now it just makes you a "loser" instead of a "f**" to hate sports but the toxic masculinity underlying it is still there as you can see even in this thread)