Read After Burning posted:

Oh, I see what you're asking! It's kind of a bad look to go "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WOMEN, WHY ARE THERE NO COMPLEX WOMEN CHARACTERS" for a movie featuring gay Asian men, which may be the first "major" movie of its kind. Margaret Cho is in the movie, and she is both Asian and LGBT+, but I guess a few folks took issue with her character's existence kinda focusing around the male characters (she plays a sort of "den mother" type character, which is admittedly a role women are often assigned in "gay dude" stories).

The movie is to celebrate gay Asian men, a demographic so rarely focused on in our culture. A random white woman coming in asking "Okay cute, but where are the women?!" is just...oof.

Wizard Master posted:

Knormal posted:

The more pressing question is why doesn't the movie have any superheroes or explosions?

Wizard Master posted:

Kenning posted:

This is the most brutally soy tweet I think I've ever seen.

Kenning posted:

This is the most brutally soy tweet I think I've ever seen.

Wizard Master posted:

boofhead posted:

What does soy mean here? A mate explained "soy boy' to me a few years back, is it related to that kind of mentality?

Kenning posted:

Soy in this case refers to the open mouthed smile in his pfp, and has come to encompass what 10 years ago would have been called "monkey cheese" or "lol random", but with a specific sort of treacly positivity undergirding it.

Flint_Paper posted:

Man, I thought "soy" was some sort of weird alt-right "Liberal men are feminising themselves with ASIAN BEANS because they won't EAT MEAT and it makes their TESTICLES SHRINK and DEPRIVES THEM of their god-given MANLY JUICES" or some poo poo like that. Its always been a signifier of "if you see this in a sentence (and it's not about food), you can pretty confidently let your eyes glaze over the rest" thing. Has that changed? Have things moved on? Does it only gain these powers if appended with "-boy"?

God I'm old and the internet is hell.

SLOSifl posted:

I feel like future historians will skip a huge amount of this type of things. In that sense I see no good reason to remember it, because the chance of my ghost having to explain it is so low. I’ll be ready for seances asking about 9/11 or what it was like before cell phones. Maybe i’ll go into pagers or the car phone things that were like a car battery. Honestly I’m more worried about embarrassing myself in such a public way, and if they ask about this movie I’m already hosed. Summoned from the afterlife and the medium is just shaking her head in shame.

This is exactly the type of poo poo someone will bring up when they do a seance for me too. I plan to live a lot longer so I have to save space in there, and it’s gonna be about a tweet. I hate the thought of walking back into hell and everyone asks how the thing went. Makes me realize there are entire categories of topics I would be useless for and I get back there and…lie, I guess? Just bury it and move on.

Maybe I get why ghosts are so angry. Why is an old lady from the 1800s moving chairs or tipping stuff over? Because of this poo poo, probably. Hey lady what was the war of 1812 like i got a loving book report. I’d be doing the same exact thing.

cohsae posted:

IT'S bad but not as bad as

Ror posted:

No, it is basically, and I still immediately jump to thinking about it as a chud word before I think about the context. It's sort of been reclaimed because the insult was so dumb and never stuck as hard as 'beta' or anything. I've seen more people joking use it in the past year or so, sort of how 'cuck' became more of a joke eventually even though it came from purestrain 4chan awfulness.

But the soy guy meme of the neckbeard dude gawking and pointing is also based on an actual dumb photo of Wendig so I think people tend to specifically use "soy" stuff to make fun of him because his vibe fits the meme picture pretty well. Also when I was googling and wasting my precious life reading about this stuff I found a several dozen tweet thread from him about how the soy insult is dumb, which isn't exactly wrong but it's pretty close to corncobbing.

Inceltown posted:

Dareon posted:

I was about to ask about corncobbing, but then my brain connected the dots.

On the other hand, I'm furiously mashing Translate Tweet and nothing is happening. (Pretty sure I know what the JO stands for, and that would be funny enough on its own, but I would like full context)

Inceltown posted:

JOI is "Jerk Off Instruction"

Trap sprung etc.

Wizard Master posted:

mind the walrus posted:

Lmao get wrecked incels my gf is feminist as poo poo and demands to be the one to cook all our food. Turns out life doesn't suck poo poo when you aren't constantly in a culture war with yourself.

Facebook Aunt posted:

https://twitter.com/aniiyengar/status/1534696420162273281

Inceltown posted:

Philippe posted:

If you're confused about JOI, wait until you learn about CEI

Wizard Master posted:

Harrow posted:

There are actually a lot of things that could probably stop me. A bullet, for example, would definitely stop me in my tracks. Someone waving a knife. An angry-looking mid-sized feline. It's raining outside and I don't feel like it. Stop sign at an intersection. Lots of things.

Lobok posted:

Owed

to JOI

Wizard Master posted:

Fools Infinite posted:

There is a programmer on that plane giving a lecture on thread safety.

zoux posted:

Wendig is not the daddy-need-drinky guy but I think he is the one who wrote the tweet about his mom needing her resting bitch face pre-applied before she hears anything about Orange [lame refence to dictator]


What are some other legendary cringe tweets





https://twitter.com/joycecaroloates/status/668511482917871617?lang=en

Oh and one from today's main character
https://twitter.com/elisawine14/status/1534353172952670210

Inceltown posted:

Ishamael posted:

are these really your favorite tweets

Mauser posted:

What is going on in NYC in that person's mind?

Skwirl posted:

I'm guessing you don't live in America. Store bought egg nog is very different from traditional egg nog recipes.

Maxwells Demon posted:

There is a currently alive writer Alison Bechdel who invented a test of media to see if it was exceptionally male-centric. A piece of media can 'pass' the test by having
• Two women
• Who talk to each other
• About anything other than a man

You will hear things like "The introduction to 'I Like Big Butts' by Sir Mix-A-Lot passes the Bechdel test." It's an interesting metric because a lot of media does not pass this test, like supposedly the media discussed in the piece. There is a tweet by the eponymous test maker earlier in the thread as well for context.