this week's LW chud who is the sort of anti-wokeist who says he isn't right wing writes about human interaction from first principles. 100 upvotes.
this week's LW chud who is the sort of anti-wokeist who says he isn't right wing writes about human interaction from first principles. 100 upvotes.
Epistemic status: Speculation. An unholy union of evo psych, introspection, random stuff I happen to observe & hear about, and thinking. Done on a highly charged topic. Caveat emptor!
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But… I mean, think of a bakery of all (straight) men.
Then think of the same bakery, but it's all (straight) women.
Then imagine the same bakery, but it's mixed sex.
Can you see what happens?
no, not really. bakeries you say?
Even if there's no attraction going on in the last case, the fact that there could be dramatically changes the unspoken dynamics. It's just not as stable as the other two.
Things like… if a man notices a female coworker struggling with a flour sifter, and he comes in one day with a device he purchased to help her out… it raises questions that just wouldn't have arisen if the two coworkers had been the same sex.
oh. ok. flour sifters, man, yeah, those things are crazy.
I just can't get over the "struggling with a flour sifter" bit. Like ... what's there to struggle with? What accessory would help a person locked in combat with a flour sifter? Another flour sifter, to intimidate the first with the knowledge that it can be replaced?
A Tactical Flour Sifter, made for men.
"Because, Lana, I care about the fluffiness of my baked goods."
“It’s a family heirloom, Lana. A 17th century zweihander flour sifter.”
“with a device he purchased to help her out” is such an extremely load bearing sentence in there
The whole goddamn example is batshit, but that one really did it for me
It continues to amaze me these people are real
I'm picturing some kind of flour-sifting Juicero-type smart device
It sifts the flour in all the right places, if you get his hint.
Its $700, looks like it was engineered by NASA and does the same amount of work as squeezing your hand?
also, if you do this in a bakery you’ll probably get written up for violating food service regulations cause you brought in a random consumer-grade prep item that could’ve easily contaminated everything with bacteria or allergens. plus if you procure the item through work, everyone gets to use it instead of just you and the coworker you’re trying to fuck on top of a birthday cake???
but “I got written up for an obvious health code violation” hits a lot different from “woe is men, everything is sexual harassment now”
whenever I hear the "everything is sexual harassment now" from some of these fuckers I think of the joke:
"what's wrong?," asks the doctor.
"something bad - everything hurts" says the patient
"show me"
the patient touches their finger against their thigh, their foot, their neck, and their forehead - evidently wincing with every time
"...you have a broken finger" says the doctor
felt like it started off relatively normal, gradually got weirder and more reactionary, and then the bakery bit was where it was clear this dude is from another planet. imagine a bakery... but with both men and women in it. imagine the roiling, all consuming sexual tension. fuck! we can't handle this
@sc_griffith It's true. The bakery just down the road has both male and female staff and it's really pretty inconvenient that every time I go in I have to ask if they'd mind taking a quick break from the constant fucking in order to serve me. And don't mention the time I asked if they had "a couple of nice floury baps for me".
I don't know, I worked at a Dunkin' Donuts when they still did baking in store, and there were male and female employees. I'm not saying there was NO fucking going on, but I wasn't lucky enough to witness any let alone participate.
Sexual tension in a bakery was a plotline in season 1 of tuca and bertie.
This has major “because of the implication” energy.
Dude had to specify everyone was straight to get this because yeah in the real world anyone could be attracted to anyone and yeah. Make everyone gay and the situation reverses.
it is well known that interpersonal conflict only happens between potential partners. and in bakeries.
I was not clicking op, this is the kind of comments I came for, you made me actually lol, thanks! 😂
Also, is there a /MenAndFemales yet? 🤔
Never, under any circumstances, sift this guy's flour.