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  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    8 days ago

    Man Wishes Women In Crowded Bar Would Let Him Read Jane Austen Novel In Peace

    MODESTO, CA—Frustrated with the nonstop unwanted intrusions, local man Russell Goldin wished Thursday that the women in crowded O’Donnell’s Pub would let him read his Jane Austen novel in peace. “Jesus, will all these women just go away and let me enjoy Pride And Prejudice without being constantly interrupted,” said Goldin, explaining that just because he’s smiling and shaking his head as he reads the book in view of female bar patrons doesn’t mean he wants to be hit on. “Every single time I start becoming enraptured by an exquisitely rendered piece of British drollery, I’m pulled out of it by some lady trying to ask me what I’m reading. I came here to drink red wine and be transported to the world of the 18th-century British landed gentry, not make flirtatious small talk.” At press time, Goldin was forced to give a fake number to a woman who approached him asking if he would be interested in discussing Austen over dinner sometime.

    • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      19·
      8 days ago

      Ugh I’m dealing with the same problem! All these mini skirt wearing stewardesses keep asking me what I’m reading and if I’d like some “free peanuts in the back” whatever that means!

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    8 days ago

    When I do that, I just read the dictionary. It has the most words per page and the biggest ones so I wordmog the other males in that area of operations. Whenever someone passes me I try to pronounce the biggest one I can find.

  • XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    8 days ago

    unnecessarily serious reply to a joke post: i have been thinking a lot recently about the phrase performative male and i have come to the conclusion that it’s lib trash. it identifies and singles out as somehow different or non-standard men who perfom masculinity in a different way from traditional masculinity and ascribes the “performative” label only to those men and their various non traditional masculinities. this is problematic because it assumes that traditional masculinity - driving trucks, eating red meat, making homophobic jokes with boys, etc - is somehow not performed, and that the men performing it are actually Just Being Men, as opposed to performing their own masculinity. it’s a double standard rooted in stereotypes of men and a 20th century understanding of masculinity and it ultimately serves to hold men back from expressing their own masculinity in non-traditional way

    tldr: calling it performative masculinity when traditional masculinity is also a performance reinforces the harmful attitude that reading (and doing anything other than being a toxic hateful shithead) is gay

    thank you for coming to my ted talk

    • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      8 days ago

      I just hate when it’s applied to books. The most communist thing I can say is to read more books and harder books. The more books I read, the more communist I become. Anti-intellectualism needs to be directed at the things that hold us back from learning in liberating ways. I’ll never trust anyone who tells me education is useless or reading books for adults is somehow bad. It’s such a reactionary framework to adopt in a society that uses anti-intellectualism to oppress us. We’re specifically alienated from those things and the time to learn or enjoy them because they’re powerful if we can use them.

    • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I think performative male is more like, doing some shit you don’t like to woo some maidens or make yourself seem deeper as an individual.

      Like Lebron James obviously never having read the autobiography of Malcolm X but it makes him seem like an intellectual so he’s gonna bring that book around in public.

      Tbh I’d go as far as saying those white kids who grew up in the suburbs but try to code-switch around their one black friend is also performative male, maybe I’m interpreting it incorrectly idk.