What is the weirdest thing/subject/etc someone has gatekept at you (if that makes sense)? (lemmy.world)

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People constantly gatekeep metal music and it has become the norm for when I talk about metal with a stranger.

That's why I want to know what the weirdest thing people gatekeep?

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 year ago

Cricket

I'm German, my aunt is French and she married a Brit. Nice gentleman, we always joke about that he's a retired secret agent. Anyways, while we were visiting them he was watching a cricket match on TV. And he actually really seemed to love the game. And if I recall correctly that was a relatively important match.

But he seemed to be embarrassed about it and turned it off. But my wife and I were actually really interested in getting to know the game because we had no idea about the rules. We just knew stuff like that a game could go on for days and such. But he thought we were joking and left the TV off and we never learned what that game is about.

[-] Serpent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Cricket is great and it takes a lot of time to get under the skin of the sport and understand the intricacies. It's also easy to take the piss out of because of the slow paced nature of 5 day test matches and the funny jargon.

Sounds like he was either being a little bit gatekeepy because he couldn't be bothered to explain the rules or he was a bit sensitive to having his sport ridiculed... or maybe he was just being polite and turned it off to socialise

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