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Gym bro talk has to be one of the dumbest things ever (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Like, why does a gym attract so many dickheads. I'm just there minding my own damn business when I overhear dudes talking about how they are 'going to get so much pussy for lifting' and whatever dumb shit. It's a constant stream of male garbage coming from all around you. My fault for not wearing headphones I guess.

Is that why you lift? Really? Are most gym bros just terminally insecure man children? Fucking hell man. Who unironically talks like that? I know I'm probably in a bubble as a sober, vegan communist but still.

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[–] chickennuggies@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I just cannot jive with someone who thinks that human beings as a species are stupid, point-blank. That is a useful (incorrect) excuse to sweep away the consequences of real systemic choices made by pro-capitalist governments of the past and present, which have brought us into this position we are in. On this same comment fork, I respond to the binary person on why there is a distinction between talking about gym goers in the western sphere of influence and humanity...

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The intensity of your reaction seems overblown.

Sure, there are larger, systemic forces at work that have led the world to this point, but it can also be fairly argued that the average human is...average. Our leaps and bounds of progress are generally only found by aggregating the work of the entire species, over lifetimes of toil.

What about that bothers you so much? You respond like it was something deeply personal, and not a generalization, or reflection of our current society. Moreover, you just seem angry. Which is off-putting.

[–] chickennuggies@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I fully agree with your first paragraph, and it is because of that I just cannot stand overblown reductive generalisations on humanities' capacity to change. Not appreciating the fact that the way the west operates economically/socially/politically aren't set in stone is why we are in this mess in the first place. It has nothing to do with humanities averageness. It's rot, society hasn't helped foster what we believe it should, otherwise all kids would be well-educated. Yanno, flowers can still grow in a crack of concrete, but we cannot expect a forest while there's a city on top.

Plus I just can't stand people on the internet being full of themselves, so I call it out when I have time to kill. I can learn something about myself when I reflect on the way the west, through patriarchy, has ruined a large amount of a generation of men. I can't do shit but think I'm hot stuff if I think humanity is stupid. It helps noone. I've seen it in person and online, and I hate people who believe it and what they do/don't do. And to still do so this far into the wests social rot is worth calling out, which is why I went at binary person

Moreover, you just seem angry

Super valid, I think I'm going to log off now