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Lowkey them both saying that is so sexy to me
I’m also a gay guy and not a woman so idk if that’s a factor
God, I wish I was a moron.
I really need people to know that Helen Keller did fly a plane and yes, this fact alone is the crux of a lot of weird Keller-denialism. It’s ironic that the woman in the post is suggesting the man mentioning Keller is ignorant for confusing her with Earhart, because he wasn’t. He is ignorant for thinking the Keller story is unbelievable, however.
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-helen-keller-fly-a-plane (egregious ad deployment on that site, fair warning)
If the guy didn’t know who Emelia Earhart was, I doubt he knew of this conspiracy
That’s not how misinformation works. It preys upon the ignorant and fills them with lies before they can be filled with truths. All it takes is mild interest in one tiny slice of the right-wing nutjob conspiracy pie to be immediately pulled down the rabbit hole via algorithms on youtube, tiktok, even reddit.
Yeah that’s a good point. I hadn’t thought about that side of things
I think it’s worth mentioning that this was a publicity stunt. Keller wasn’t a pilot by trade.
I’m getting whiplash here.
First I’m told there’s a guy who didn’t know the difference between Helen Keller and Emilia Earhart.
Then I’m told that Helen Keller really did fly a plane, and that the guy wasn’t misspeaking.
And now I have to grapple with the fact that the guy wasn’t stupid, but rather a conspiracy theorist, and that “Helen Keller conspiracy theorists” are a real thing.
Welcome to the party, my friend. It’s BYOB and nobody brought beer.
More of a wine guy here, but I always bring extra.
The thing about the “there’s no way she flew that plane” thing is so annoying is that it’s not even that bold of a claim. They flew her up, she flew for a bit with someone there to take control if something bad happened, then they landed.
Literally. I don’t mean this to diminish Helen Keller, but the sort of “flying” she did was the same as when they let a kid into the cockpit.
Given her conditions, this is still absolutely an accomplishment and worth applauding. But to suggest that there is anything remotely unbelievable about it would require a fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of the situation
Reminds me of the sexy guy I met at the hotel pool the day before my breast cancer surgery and his only hesitancy was “Is it contagious?”
Jesus fucking CHRIST.
Helen Keller flew a plane. She slept with both these men?!
This is basically Ron DeSantis and his pronunciation of “Thai” food. It’s gross. Don’t sleep with someone like that.
There are plenty of people that are genuinely this stupid and haven’t read a book or learned a single piece of new information since 5th grade.
In the current typhoon of men behaving badly in the US and the ongoing response and safety movements often advocating romantic abstinence, sometimes the observation is made that not every woman — even those pledged to the movement — is on the same page.
And then there’s the abstinence-until-marriage doctrine of white Christian nationalists, in which young women pledge to preserve their virginity until their one-and-only trad-minded husband puts a ring on it. (Young men might take a similar pledge, but they’re not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience. Double standards and inconsistent value systems and all that.) Yet, a conspicuous fraction of these (sometimes underage) young women overestimate their willpower, frequently contributing to the disproportionate rate of teen pregnancy in school districts that have committed to abstinence-only sex-ed.
Then there’s the women’s magazine I remember reading during the COVID-19 lockdown, that asked readers to write in their stories when they needed the d so badly they risked infection by a stranger to get it. There were a lot of confessional replies.
And all this is to say, sometimes a girl has needs.
Young men might take a similar pledge, but they’re not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience.
Y’know, I didn’t really think about it during the American Pie era, but I’m just gonna say it: if the boys are supposed to be getting experience, and the girls are supposed to not be, who are the boys having sex with?
The homies, don’t forget to kiss them good night after though
Your body, your choice.
Knew a lady that had four sons with her first husband. Wonderful woman in every way, the boys took after dad. Tall and handsome, dumber than chicken shit and always drink the bottle empty. Nice guys, but I swear they quit breathing while they are trying their shoes. Met someone who knew her in school, she was only sorting for looks and fun. Paying for that now.
Why 😭
ummm isn’t this from “The Most Unlovable Man in New York City” is in fact saying it’s hard for a guy out there?
Straight-washing ahh meme
Are you afraid to offend someone by typing the word ass?
It’s GenZ slang, originally black vernacular See here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ahh
I think I’m going to pretend it’s a Girl From Ipanema reference.
Oh we know…
I don’t get what’s wrong… Your past posts also use improper grammar. Are you just stuck up on the slang of your generation?
It’s weak and confirmist.
Never before in the history of generational slang has there been a consensus to self censor and there’s not even a good reason for it.
It’s as if your generation decided to do it because you could escape online moderation on other platforms by willingly choosing to censor yourself before someone else has the chance to which is… inherently pathetic.
It’s not self-censorship, it phonetic spelling.
People say stuff like ahh, shii, biatch, muggafugga in real life, and it’s still widely considered to be profane in context.
You just don’t like Black culture, and look down on Black people for their dialects.
Demanding dictionary spelling is about as language-conformist as you can get; you’re not even good at the mental gymnastics you’re trying to do.
I’m not sleeping with stupid. I don’t care what they look like. Gross. Such a turnoff.
Calling stupid people gross seems kind of ableist.
That’s fucking stupid.
No one cares even a single bit about disabled folks. Even so-called leftists. Honestly, especially them, it feels like so often to me.
That or they overcorrect.
On a pretty popular leftist Lemmy instance (Hexbear), you need to provide a trigger warning for “an ableist slur” if you’re posting a screenshot or quoting something that says the word “stupid”. Pretty sure you’re not allowed to say it in any other context (even for example calling the EU Kids Act “stupid”) or you’ll get banned for “ableism”.
Why are you assuming stupid people are disabled? Do you not see how this is toxic and ableist logic?
I’m not. I’m just saying that a lot of “invisibly” disabled people with (often undiagnosed) learning disabilities etc. are called stupid all the time, and reading something like that would really hurt them.
This is an anecdote, I understand that I’m “arguing” here from the heart and I’m not looking to win any legitimate debate, which would be impossible since I unexpectedly got dogpiled this hard while I was asleep before I had a chance to say this, but anyway:
I watched this small streamer for some time, and even became her moderator. She would just not understand a lot of things, at all, and she was completely unaware how some things could offend other people, until I explained them to her and she felt really bad for saying them while not knowing the real meaning. She cultivated this audience of reactionary people, because they thought she was one of them because she accidentally said a whole bunch of edgy things. But let me emphasize this: she never wanted to hurt anyone, she always felt bad for saying hurtful things on accident and always deeply apologized when she realized she was being hurtful.
Eventually, I had to quit, because the audience was too much for me. She was a great person, but I didn’t feel welcome due to her viewers and eventually stopped watching her. She felt really bad that I didn’t feel welcome, but there was really nothing that could be done without me banning like a third of her community. We stayed as friends for some time, and she opened up how sad she was about people calling her stupid all the time “because she wouldn’t understand some things” (in reality she had issues understanding basic things all the time).
When I saw that comment, I thought of her, already really upset by people calling her stupid, reading that and being like “stupid people are gross? and everyone calls me stupid… does this mean… :(”.
Not expecting to read this on a shit post. Thanks.
Intellect is absolutely a worthwhile trait in a breeding partner. It should be sexy to be smart.
Also there’s a difference between being handicapped and being stupid. Stupid is a choice. More of a choice than even being obese.
It will shock you but a lot of people have sex for pleasure, not for breeding.
Sure. But there’s a biological component to sexual attraction. Hence the more important part of what I said, intellect is supposed to be sexy.
Instead, anti-intellectualism is. Head-in-the-sand, willful ignorance and learned helplessness. Probably should be the biggest turn-offs, but here we are.
Stupid is a choice is as much as access to good education is a choice.
You can be stupid and educated, or vice versa. Education isn’t the same as stupidity. Some people went to harvard and are stupider than a lot of people I know who dropped out of uni.
And having all body parts is also a worthwhile trait in a partner. But that doesn’t mean you get a license to call them gross.
Stupid is most definitely not a just choice.
This just in: insults are insulting
I was shaking my head at the Helen Keller - Amelia Earhart confusion until I double checked something.
I was getting Helen Keller confused with Anne Frank…
Is that you, Randall?
I was getting Helen Keller confused with Anne Frank…
wow- wanna fuck?
You’re not the first.
Get back to the Quick Stop.
Amelia Earhart
Wasn’t she that maid that took things way too literally? ;)
You’re thinking of Amelia Bedelia.
Amelia Earhart was Paul Simon’s girlfriend. He wrote a song about her leaving, then coming back to him.
Thread gives fond memories of a pre-fediverse experience. I used to subcribe to a no-you’re-thinking-of community there; is there one on the fediverse? Related, is anyone collecting Lemmy/Piefed switcharoos in some community?
That was Cecelia. Pretty sure Amelia Earhart was King Lear’s daughter.
Nay. that is Cordelia. I’m positive Amelia Earhart was that that movie about the French girl with the black hair and the crazy eyes in the movie poster.
Well no, you’re thinking of Amélie. Amelia Earhart played as “Two-Face” in 2008’s The Dark Knight.
You’re thinking of Don Draper, who doesn’t think of you at all
There’s no way that Anne Frank learned how to read.
I don’t think she could write
This doesn’t really seem like a gender thing, I’ve slept with my share of dumb women.
*Hard out there for a man.
The author is John Paul Brammer, from his piece “The Most Unlovable Man in New York City.”
Archived copy of source, because fuck giving that nazi bar Substack any clicks.
