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u/dv666 16d ago edited 16d ago
"Hon, are you mad because I forgot to buy milk?"
"In place of a dark lord you would have a queen! NOT DARK BUT BEAUTIFUL AS THE DAWN. TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA. STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH. YOU SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!!!!!!!"
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u/redrabidmoose 16d ago
at least quote it right… “All shall love me and despair”
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u/dv666 16d ago
I've altered the quote. Pray I don't alter it further.
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u/FarWaltz3 16d ago
I've altered the quote. Pray I don't alter it any more.
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u/Gimli_Gloin 16d ago
I've altered the quote. Pray I don't alter it and my axe.
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u/dv666 16d ago
I've altered the quote Isildur. Pray to Gandalf I don't alter it further.
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u/gandalf-bot 16d ago
No, but the air doesnt smell so foul down here. If in doubt, dv666, always follow your nose.
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u/PennName47 16d ago
Well I’ll be downvoted but, these memes always make me sad. They push a really unfair view of women. I love LOTR but always feel down about how many downer posts there are about women and specifically girlfriends.
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u/cheezie_toastie 15d ago
Yeah I used to love this sub but the "girls are [insert negative stereotype]" posts are becoming increasingly more common, which I find especially weird because that's not at all what LotR is about. It's all stale boomer humor, but not by boomers.
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u/Chuck_Finley_Forever 16d ago
I get where you are coming from but most like this more often than not come from a personal experience so I don’t think OP’s intentions are to generalize.
Just like how a lot of posts in those female subreddits say bad things about guys but those are always from personal experience from what I know.
No one means to generalize but most people perceive it that way regardless.
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u/PennName47 16d ago
I hear that. I can see that definitely being the case, but the comments often take it as a generalization too and riff off of it, making even more generalized jokes at the expense of women or specifically SOs. It sucks on a few levels. Not just the views on women, but also the indicator that a lot of people are clearly in shitty, immature relationships. Sucks man.
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u/Donkey__Balls 15d ago
Well a lot of people are shitty, welcome to humanity.
But when people and talk about their relationships they simply take the most negative quality they can and amplify it for attention. If people were 100% accurate and reported all of the context of the relationship and the mitigating circumstances on both sides, it just wouldn’t be that interesting and nobody would notice it. Naturally the more embellished examples float to the top, which is why that’s what you see most often, and it encourages more people to embellish.
We all do it. I’ve joked that my girlfriend threaten to break up with me because of something I said to her in her dream. Obviously that’s not exactly what happened but in the right context it gives people a quick laugh - or they get really upset and trying to tell me the end my relationship based on reading one sentence.
In reality, she is perfectly mentally competent which means that she is aware that what I said in a dream is not the same as me actually saying it. But she had the dream because of some underlying issues or anxieties that she feels, and so she wants to talk about it, which is a means to transfer those feelings from the subconscious to the conscious and thus resolve the underlying issue.
But that’s not nearly as attention getting and no one is going to care about the reality of the situation because they don’t know either of us. People just want to be entertained and so they upvote the more entertaining version.
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u/Chuck_Finley_Forever 16d ago
While it may seem prevalent on the internet, the amount of people that actually believe these generalizations are, at least in my experience, very very few.
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u/Donkey__Balls 15d ago
Have you ever been on TwoX lately? It’s nothing but constant complaints about how all men are evil with thousands of replies of “Dump him girl!”
Anyone who actually listens to strangers on reddit for advice about their relationships is not ready to be in a relationship at all. Sometimes people just want to vent about their experiences, and most women have experiences from dating men and most men have experiences from dating women, and so each side comes to Reddit where they can vent to strangers in a completely inconsequential environment.
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u/PennName47 15d ago
I mean TwoX is a sub specifically about women’s problems so I’m not surprised it has a bunch of complaints about men (not that that’s okay at all, I know what you’re saying). This sub is supposed to be about a really good set of books/movies that happens to also have strong female characters. The downer humor is out of place here IMO.
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u/Donkey__Balls 15d ago
Well here’s the thing, it’s not like the vast majority of posts and comments on this sub are complaints about relationships.
I think most of the users here are male, and so whenever the topic of relationships does come up you see a very similar pattern to what you see on subs like TwoX.
As for what is an appropriate topic to discuss in the comments here, this is a place for people to post silly memes from a 20-year-old movie so naturally the topic in comments will stray or whatever people feel like talking about. I don’t think we need mods going around locking every thread where people start talking about anything besides LOTR.
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u/BugsRFeatures2 16d ago
Your girl needs a better understanding of healthy communication in a relationship
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u/Primary_Complex 16d ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, because you're right.
My dudes, you shouldn't settle for this childlike behavior in your partner. It's on her to speak up if she's upset and it's on her to differentiate between a genuine concern and overthinking.
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u/2farbelow2turnaround 16d ago
Don't forget when some of us have a dream and that really affects how we interact with you. (Kinda joking, but it really does happen for some people.)
All jokes aside, if someone gets pissy about imaginary offenses, boot his/her ass.
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u/Kosmos77_yt 16d ago
This actually happend to a classmate of mine. His gf dreamed about him cheating, guess what happend. But I think it’s a bit inception like, it makes you think about that scenario.
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u/2farbelow2turnaround 16d ago
Yes, it certainly does get your gears turning. And the emotions we feel in dreams are real, so we do have to deal with the psychophysiological fall out of that. I used to dream that my husband was cheating on me a lot, and I would ignore it and remind myself that it was "just a dream". But he was, which is confusing because I do think dreams matter- but not necessarily in a prophetic way. My subconscious was likely trying to tell me what it was picking up on, and the dream state was the safest place to do that. Stupid me ignored it though.
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u/thatguyagainbutworse 16d ago
Great that it's not in a prophetic way. I usually dream that the world ends. I don't think that'd be beneficial for the human race.
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u/Donkey__Balls 15d ago
Not joking, actually happens.
Packed up and left after having to apologize one too many times for something I said in her dream.
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u/abby20306 16d ago
I try to explain why I'm upset because I'm very rarely upset at my boyfriend. Like peeved about a guy at work putting gum under his desk like a freaking 1st grader. But like if I'm mad about something I'm over thinking my bf trys to help me calm down and relax.
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u/ImogenStack 16d ago
Not to say the other way is guaranteed to be bad, but if your SO can laugh at this then it is probably a positive sign…
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u/Currrentcouple 16d ago edited 16d ago
i was watching lotr with my gf and i literally told this to her in that scene and guess what ...
she got mad at me lmao
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u/hardgeeklife 16d ago
I dated a girl like this. It was not great
I am not with her anymore, thankfully
Don't settle for this, folks, guys or girls. You deserve better
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u/Equivalent_Hurry_813 16d ago
"Hey babe I got you some chocolate"
"You offer it to me freely..."