Maybe let people enjoy their hobbies? Is belittling other people for being enthusiastic about something the new chic?
Literally. You can say that shit about anything. Like omg a lil researcher. We’ll have fun with your beakers lil guy! Keep mixing stuff 🙃
Girls who like to knit are funny like “look at me I can make clothes out of string!” Yup you sure can lil one!
Ugh.
Nah, it's been this way forever. Only, it used to be reserved for nerds and geeks enjoying d&d, comics, and whatever else wasn't cool at the time. Society's just at a point now where the jocks aren't the defacto popular kids so their hobbies are fair game for ridicule now too.
This is satire. Sports enthusiasts are mainstream, The mainstream is notorious for looking down on other people's hobbies being weird or not mainstream. Liking a sport is something almost everybody does. This is the little guy punching at the big guy, and that's why it's funny.
As soon as people stop shaming D&D players and furries and other niche interests, this sort of retaliatory satire will vanish.
You give an example of why one way might be more harmful than the other, but not why we can't just allow people to enjoy their interests in peace.
You are basically saying "well, it's okay to act like asshole to everyone who likes sports because some people who like sports are assholes to other people!"
It's a dumb point, especially if you see the harm in it yet still try to justify it.
That attitude isn't going to make anything better. Two wrongs don't make a right. Generalizing all sports people as bullies is just as bad as picking on any other group for their hobbies. I say this as someone who doesn't give a shit about sports and was bullied quite a lot.
I def agree that no one should knock a (harmless) hobbie, but I didn't read the post as being mean. My reading was more that it's genuinely thinking it's cute that some guys get so excited about sports. At least, it's better than the "ugh all men care about is sports" kind of angle.
Seems pretty blatantly infantilizing
You've obviously never lived where sports is a religion. These are not people "enjoying hobbies". These are frightened men screaming at children to run in a circle faster.
If they were "enjoying it" they would smile more. Look at all the smiles on the sidelines there. Look at 'em. Are there any? Sometimes. But not that often. Mostly it's scowling and looking VRY SRS
I grew up in a place where some football matches warranted a national emergency. Football hooligans were also pivotal in changing the government for the worse in the past 20 years. I know that football can be toxic. Moreover, I hated the over-emphasis of football in schools, and I never liked playing it, which had me left out of some social circles.
All that said, if people want to run after balls, or dress up in merch of their favourite teams, let them. A ton of hobbies have toxic followings, that doesn't mean enthusiasm equals toxicity. Laughing and belittling people for being enthusiastic is quite antisocial in my opinion.
That’s called being cool and has been around my whole life
Edit: Either people are unaware of social conventions or think I am endorsing them
It's funny how cosplaying is seen as this weird niche nerdy activity... unless it's as an athlete.
Although, having said that, we do have the term 'full kit wanker' in the UK, for anyone who buys the whole kit (not just the t-shirt, scarf or hat). Because, you see, there's an acceptable quantum of cosplaying.
If I told people I planned to sit around for hours on a weekend watching TV, they'd call me lazy.
If I told them I was watching sports, they'd ask me what team I liked.
Yeah I’m a cosplayer and a sports fan. It’s weird. They’re really cousin hobbies. Both dressing up in appreciation and support of some pop culture “team”—usually that we had nothing to do with creating.
Women are so funny with their designer clothes and handbags, "I'm just like my favorite singer/actress!" haha, sure you are, lil princess 😀
Getting their nails done is hilarious, like aww, you gonna go change the way your hand operates so you can have your fun-time 3 inch long plastic shit gatherers? better show them off at the grocery store! 😜
SportsBall!!! Wheee!
And we don't care who knows
Sunglasses on when you sleep. That’s a sport.
I'm not a sports fan, so I see the humor in this.
On the other hand, I also see women spending thousands of dollars on clothing, makeup, accessories, etc. In the mistaken belief that this will somehow gain them the attractiveness (which I think is debatable anyway) of professional models and actresses.
Good point. As a man, I neither clothe nor groom myself, these being baffling, feminine activities. (For the curious, I wear a single beige tunic and wash myself in rainwater.)
Me narrating a tennis match:
My wife once asked me with a straight face if I had any "football cosplay shirts" and while it took me a minute to figure out what she meant, I couldn't argue with her terminology.
Hey do you guys remember when I was super good at sports in the past? Wasn't that great? I bet I could have been even better if coach had let me play in that key game. Then, everyone would have seen how good I was and I would have got to play more!
But could you throw a football over those mountains?
I could throw a pigskin a quarter mile.
Why are furries looked down upon but people who dress in fursuits at sporting events viewed as figures of fun?
Nobody is trying to fuck the mascot.
I don't sports. All the men I know who sports seem to be very invested. Its cool though, I politics.
Do you Jersey in politics too lil person?
I jersey for sure. I'll put my local shirt on wherever. I'll wear my shirt for any walks or endorsements for candidates at the union hall.
Yes, I'll wear my politics, if that's what you were saying.
mean girls are mean
I don't get it either. Both of them.
The team you like the mascot better didn't win? Nightmare!
does the dr. mean american football or the real thing that the rest of the world calls football? because even if you let people enjoy their guacamole toast - rooting for a shitty copy of a real sport is even worse than just having this general smalldickenergy/identity crisis. that makes her roast even better.
