• Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        Hmm you might want to reconsider the origin of the mermaid myth, and how they are not and have never been confused as sirens before the modern era

        But that would get in the way of your rabid misandry, wouldn’t it?

        • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          22 days ago

          Commenting on the historical fetishizing the female gender is “misandry”? “Rabid” is derogatory for “academic”? Sweetie. Step away from the bong & keyboard. 🥲

          • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            I’m going to show you what you wrote:

            Yeah, but the mermaid is man’s fear of discovered impotence, whereas the unic— oh.

            You are objectively wrong, but not just wrong because you are misinformed. Rather you are wrong because of a perversion of symbolic history to fit the ridiculous 3rd wave feminist theosophy that has a fucktonne more to do with bongs and the internet than anything I’ve ever posted.

            Really interesting how every symbol can easily be degrading to men but always uplifting to women in the cracked symbolic lens of post 3rd wave interpretation, despite literally centuries, or in the case of mermaids, millennia of existing symbolic exploration and usage.

            Truly a sign of patriarchy poisoning that you take possibly the oldest symbol of male loneliness at sea, and repurpose it as a fear of impotence? I swear to fuck you people are like kids that learned a new curse word and just use it constantly. Not everything is men’s fear of shirking peepes. And that’s not even the scariest thing to us men.

            Let me go ahead and do for unicorns what you did for mermaids

            Ok ok, so unicorns REALLY symbolize how hard it is for men to find companions because unicorns don’t exist but everyone’s hunting for one and has set all of their ideals on this imaginary godhorse in their head so it really doesn’t matter how fine an appaloosa one is without that mythical horn you are just swiped left. Some horses are good enough at faking that horn that they get to have kids.

            How that? Can we start using unicorns to mean an unattainable standard that women for some fuckdamn reason have all universally decided on? Tell me how does that sound?

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                22 days ago

                Low effort, and my therapist seems to think I’m pretty good all things considered

                So you’ll forgive me if I take the advice of a career professional over some rando misandrist on the internet