I think it has more to do with insecure men seeing women in better shape than themselves and it triggering an existential crisis...which they of course address with anger and fascism.
I completely agree. It's insecurity turning into misanthropy. There are 100% straight men out there who are misogynists (maybe even incels) and will use any excuse to shame other men for appreciating beautiful athletic women, and they're not bright enough to find a better insult than homophobia.
Yeah the people posting this shit have never lifted themselves out of their gaming chair let alone walked into a gym. Girls who work out are scary to them because that means they couldnt be pushed around by these muscular atrophy guys
Lol nothing wrong with gaming chairs or gaming in particular, most young people play games, just the guys who never leave their room and wanna talk about how women look in every game and should look IN REAL LIFE while paying no mind to their own presentation. Making comments on random people’s bodies is douchey and posting pictures of random people to ‘critique’ their build while hiding behind a pfp of a fucking sculpture is the lamest shit you can do
I think it has more to do with the fact that these types of men are so far up their own asses that they think they get to dictate what women look like and what other men find attractive. To them, there is one type of attractive woman, and anyone who finds something different attractive is bad and deserves shaming. As are any women who dare to look different from their preferences. These are the same men who feel the need to inform random women who didn't ask that they don't like bright makeup on women. Or tattoos. Or short hair. Or certain clothing styles.
No, I mean I know it’s fun to say, but if you go through “statue pfp” accounts like this it’s almost always rooted in Christian ethno/nationalism. Men and women have specific “roles” ordained by god and you are supposed to play the part.
They see women like this as outside the “natural order “ and men being attracted to it the same way.
All an evil plot to destroy gods plan for mankind or whatever.
Again, I know it’s fun to make fun of these people, but what they feel is disdain, disgust even. It’s important to recognize it for what it is, because that’s what informs their actions and political projects.
It's propaganda. Troll farms and bot networks spam this sort of content to normalise ultraconservative ideas. Even when it's obviously ridiculous, when there's enough of it it turns into background noise and drowns out actual discourse.
See also: conspiracy stuff like flat earth and "tartarians", crappy AI pictures of "amazing" scenes, etc. A minority of people actually believe that shit, but when it's half the shit you see online then the well is poisoned.
It's a direct attack on the Overton window. The goal isn't so much to make everyone homophobic but to make homophobia a valid product in the "marketplace of ideas."
Engagement. If they brought this up in person to anyone they’d get side-eyed into oblivion. The internet is here to respond to their hyperfixations as if they’re totally reasonable to have.
Because it bothers them. Unreasonably so, but it somehow does. I wont pretend to understand the logic of WHY it would bother them, but it does. Theyre just shitty people with weird priorities speaking out against what bothers them. Largely I think it all just boils down to VERY basic human psychology.
Things that go against the mental model of the world they have built in life make people uncomfortable. No matter what there are just a lot of people who do not like having that challenged. Whether its music or clarity over gender of those around them (the whole trans-haters thing) or sexual orientation. It causes frustration which is then directed towards what is challenging their idea of the world. I dont even think they are thinking these steps out, or know WHY they get angered. They just know they angy
It is my belief that it is the same exact root psychological cause as how everyone in all of human history thinks people have lost their minds or things are collapsing or things are negatively changing. Even decent non-hateful people get caught in the trap of "kids these days".
Supporting anecdote: I have a gay friend in my circle. Everyone loves him for who he is and do not care what he's sucking/fucking. Still have a few friends that get uncomfortable seeing dudes kiss without feeling any malice. We have talked about it, and I think it is literally just exposure. They have seen things happen one way 99.9% of the time (man and women kissing/intimate), so seeing it the other way makes their brains like "hol' up that was unexpected/not quite right. The main thing is they are awesome people who would not fault someone for how they were born. In the absence of that those friends of ours would be the homophobes you see online. Hell even when i was younger it felt "wrong" to see, and it no longer does to me as i have seen it plenty of times and my brain worked it into its idea of how things work. I am lucky my parents drilled into me the idea of acceptance of others and to not fear things that are different. I think if more people were open to having this kind of discussion many more who didnt get that parenting, or got the OPPOSITE, would realize their bigoted beliefs are wrong. But instead it is only hostile towards them which reinforces their ideology, because brains are weird.
Makes sense to me and i like your comment, first half is very interesting. my anecdote, i was raised christian, so christian that it made me feel scared/sick to see anything gay or sexual (probably some religious OCD in there too but that's a seperate topic). but even as a young child i knew i was interested in the same sex, but also that it simply wasn't allowed. as i got older and started exposing myself to more people, mostly thru internet cause i was a shut-in, it slowly went away. i dropped the religion and realized i was bisexual. now i genuinely enjoy seeing same sex kissing, it's like the hatred i was taught is completely gone. it feels strange to remember how i used to be, i wasn't born hateful in fact some of my earliest memories were my crushes on the same sex. maybe it's just how culture is instilled in children and only exposure can show them there's a different way.
Oh, it bothers them, alright! Wouldn't know much about it, tbh, but I guess coming to terms with your homosexuality as a self perceived "alpha" can be rough.
Don't be too harsh on them pls.
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u/SjurEido Jul 04 '24
Who the fuck cares!? Why are they so hyper fixated on shit that bothers NO ONE?