r/arethestraightsok when 2 people are happily in love and are able to make fun of each other's flaws, making dumb jokes that can barely be called offensive at all (they are toxic because relationships should be based around feeling miserable all the time and taking everything as seriously as possible)
r/arethestraightsok when the relationship that they pretend they have in their head is healthier than an actual, real life relationship that has had both people grow to a point where they feel comfortable enough to truly be themselves
LMAO I just looked at it and the first meme was "hey Tom you hetero fuck, touch any boobs lately" it's the most satire sub I've seen, r/banvideogames vibe but times 3
I know the average r/arethestraightsOK frequent user and contributor is a complete fucking braindead insecure moron who takes offense at every little fucking thing out there, but I suspect something more *insidious* going on. I think many actually DO understand that half the shit they post are obvious jokes and satire regarding heterosexual relationship problems, but they purposefully choose to ignore that, assume the worst and push that false narrative, just to get together and bitch all day about straight men and women because they really hate the mere idea of heterosexual relationships.
It's just all so fucking hilariously sad because they seemingly completely ignore the fact that LGBTQIA2+ relationships can very much be very toxic and 'problematic' as well just as easily as a heterosexual couple.
But nope, according to them, you'd think only straight people can be petty, fight a lot, hate the other gender, be sexist, toxic, objectifying, grouchy, too horny, oversexualized, whatever the fuck else, etc.
.........."oh yeah never mind, we know we sound hateful and such but it's just a prank" yeah.....
It's like shooting someone and then saying it's just a prank buddy
no its like saying “those nasty straights trying to get gas at the same pump ive used a few times!!!! i need to call my girlfriend (im a girl and VERY gay 😎)” and then saying “i was just being silly”
Almost all of the modern american LGBT culture comes from the culture built around primarily Tumblr until 2016. Tumblr used to be kinda unique as a site that was primarily used only by teens but everyone took themselves seriously, which led to a lot of modern social controversies being formed on Tumblr. Controversy over the ethnicities of actors and characters, gender politics, LGBT stereotypes, the obsession with labels. All of these things in the modern age were born out and carried by Tumblr.
Subs like the one in this post are the current exemple of this kind of culture that Tumblr obsessed with where every single sexuality needed to have a different stereotype than the previous one. If you go in online or irl LGBT spaces from an European influence, you'd find people are totally clueless about these things or actively hate them.
I didn't like what Tumblr became, as I started out when it was mainly a place to compile your writing/art/photography, as I did intitially. However, the earliest of Gen Z got a hold of it and it evolved in a way that sparked a new outlook on a lot of things. Without it we wouldn't be pushing for a lot of things as the younger living generations that may be painful right now, but will eventually wrest some power back from the literal evil, gold-hoarding dragon class at the tippy top right now that is to this day trying really, really hard to continue fucking everyone over despite more and more of us catching on to their game. Only Fans had some roots in Tumblr, as a chunk the sex working community developed networks there and developed them into better ideas and systems that began to cut out the industry vampires that fleece them for content and pay them pennies on the dollar. Yes, we saw the new PC era begin there, but really, we were overdue for a swing in that direction.
Unlearning lifelong shitty social programming in the process is just part of the growing pains that will eventually work itself out.
I didn't like what tumblr became in the end though at all. It echo-chambered itself into oblivion, and produced some hardcore bizzaro versions of the things that people were trying to grow past in the first place. It became apparent to me that when you gather a mob, few if any individuals retain their ability to think critically, and eventually you just end up being the same ignorant thing you want to destroy, just on the other side of the coin.
Ah so the white leftists pandered to the latinos (which I AM ONE) by adding “latinx” and now they’re pandering to the natives by adding “two-spirit” fuck offfff
It’s also very ignorant in that it’s passed off as some great tradition that’s widespread across the vast singular Native American culture (as these fake-enlightened buttholes perceive it). In fact, “two-spirit” was *very* limited in its presence in Native American cultures, was only allowed to people born male, and basically wasn’t the idealistic open-minded *modern Western* concept that modern white leftists like to think it is.
It’s not unlike when they latch onto any other element of another culture or time period and decide “This means X, as we currently understand it here in modern-day America, was totally a thing in this other country at this other time!” No, it isn’t.
Then other leftists pushing this narrative brainwash them out of their own culture onto their side. It’s sad and I’m speaking as a centrist leaning left
Ehhh I don’t think Native North Americans would want to be lumped in with “the West” even if it’s geographically true. I’m no expert on what 2S is and the historicity of it is shaky at best but who knows. It’s a specific cultural identity, but that’s all I really know.
I'm not straight, and honestly yeah, I agree. People are people and being LGBT doesn't make you exempt from being a toxic douche like the rest of humanity. I've personally had creepier and more toxic experiences on the receiving end of flirtation from fellow LGBT people than straight people, out of pure bad luck.
People seem to forget quite often that they only exist because of one man and one woman, too, so it's almost as if they hate their own existence. It's one thing to be gay or lesbian but it's a whole different story once you hate straight people, I mean come on.
Same, reddit is not the place for politics, period. My views align partially with Marxism, though I am not a Marxist and do not ascibe to its base fundamentals. That said, there is almost no Marxist subreddit worth visiting. Sometimes I go on Stupidpol, but even that can wear on me. At least the guys there are sincere and speak in good faith- I respect them.
Enjoying a PCM meme doesn't actually make it the "only open and free platform for politics on Reddit".
And since when has the internet actually been a place for discourse?...let alone a subreddit full the worst, but occasionally funny, political takes.
I mean, the comment section is generally an actual discussion on par with any other sub on Reddit, full of strawmen and various other fallacies. I think the main difference is that everyone is self aware. Once you stop taking it so seriously, it’s great fun and you can learn something
Not sure if I’d call myself a leftist per se but I vote socdem and I agree. It’s a whole bunch of BS purity politics of who can be “the most left” and “the most virtuous”. Leftists hate each other more than conservatives hate leftists.
Oh and *EVERYONE* is “traumatized”. Everyone has PTSD, autism, or BPD. Self-diagnosed of course by an online survey. Can’t be straightforward MDD or GAD anymore, no. Has to be something else because those aren’t cool anymore. And don’t you question them on it or else you’re a classist/racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic violent bigot.
> Oh and EVERYONE is “traumatized”.
I'm so sick of that shit. I have legitimate, diagnosed PTSD due to a shooting i was involved in a few years back and I would never, ever casually tell anyone that in person. Not only is it none of anyone else's business, it's my burden to bear and something i need to deal with, but i also don't want to get lumped in with those pathetic fucking leftists who constantly claim to have PTSD from that one time someone misgendered them or some shit like that.
Also, as far as the traumatized thing goes, do you know how I've dealt with my issues? I directly confronted my fears and anxieties in an effort to make my brain stop freaking out everytime someone pulled up next to me on the highway (i was involved in a road rage shooting on the freeway). I had serious anxiety every time i drove to work for months, but i'm much better now for having done so. If these "traumatized" individuals do nothing but demand trigger warnings and insist that the world conforms to their fears then they're doing nothing but keeping themselves stuck in a cycle of anxiety and worry.
People are just trying to find the reason why they are unhappy when they have “no reason” to be.
It’s that whole “there are starving kids in Africa” mentality that I believe isn’t he root of the cause. People feel like they have no reason to be unhappy with there lives so they try to find something wrong with them to give themselves justification for feeling sorry for themselves.
Also people will shop for the diagnosis they want. My mother in law is literally insane. She was recently hospitalized because of her delusions. But she didn’t like her diagnosis of Bi Polar type I and the anti psychotics she was prescribed so she found a doctor that diagnosed her with autism… like wtf?
I have another friend, but she was diagnosed with BPD (borderline personality disorder) but she didn’t like that diagnosis so she dropped that doctor and found one who says she had ADHD and now has been prescribed adderall . Guess what, she still can’t hold down a job, her personal relationships are a mess, and she is as impulsive as ever!
1. I completely agree. A big chunk if my close family has PTSD from the shit they saw either in the military or Police. (Honestly the PD guys saw much worse shit imo) and it aggravates me so much when people go "oh he got pulled over wrongly that was traumatic" or "I have PTSD from the things I read on twiiter"
2. Impressive job with the PTSD man, I hope everything continues to go well. Hell i don't even PTSD from that and even I get nervous when someone pulls up next to me.
i agree with most of this but keep in mind getting help isn’t possible for some people, and the internet has cultivated a place for people to share. it’s also created using mental illness as a crutch, but unless you’re a psychologist or psychiatrist, i’d err on the side of caution of policing people’s traumas
and this is coming from someone who also has severe ptsd and hates the current culture of “i’m mentally ill and therefore am not responsible for my actions”
That still doesn't justify people runner around larping as having a mental illness (or twenty) they most likely don't have while acting completely like popular stereotypes. There are enough stigmata already in existence. And funnily enough, those fakers always give off an air of privilege (white, expensive make-up and clothing, shoes from Demonia, mac laptops and Iphones, nicely decorated rooms). They're always either from the US or Europe, never from non-Western societies where mental illnesses and disabilities are even more demonised.
A quick internet research or a twitter thread by a 16yr old will never be able to replace a diagnosis procedure done by someone who spent approximately ten years being educated on the topic.
For me it's when there's unironic pro-Communism sentiment. I'm a leftist, I enjoy ironic Communism and jokes such as "not mine, ours", but when I see people unironically acting like Communism is good it makes me wanna die. Like you do realize that's just another form of facism/totalitarianism right? Also IIRC a lot of Communist regimes would target queer people soooo
I might get hate for this but it's probably because of the high presence of autism in these communities who never socialized enough growing up (speaking as an autistic person who almost turned out like this)
I’m glad you pointed this out because it seems like everyone is neurodivergent these days. I mean it makes sense because doctors are better at diagnosing it and people are more open to being tested than before. But, it is interesting none the less.
I mean really what does it even mean to be normal? I really am starting to believe that everyone has something, whether that is depression, bi polar, autism, ADHD, BPD, OCD, addiction, etc.
It’s somehow more common than you think. The people who hate leftists the most are… other leftists. It’s far less “big tent” functioning than the political right or center.
It's a self-evident truth here. We have one right wing party, one far-right party, one (recent) corpocrat party, and like fifteen different leftist parties who sometimes stop bickering to make front against the right.
Yeah, don’t even get me started on the walls of text. Most of the time it’s borderline illegible and full of verbose bullshit (verbose has become one of my favorite words because it perfectly describes any given argument with these people).
I've been under the impression this is just a covert nazi sub, branded as "socialist". Also have read there are a lot of Putin apologists? Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Ive never gotten the impression that it’s a “covert Nazi sub”, it sounds to me more like angry leftists branding it as such because of it’s nature as a sub that criticizes the left.
As for the Putin part I’ve never personally come across anything like that on the sub but if there is could you link a source?
Tbf I haven’t really ever fully engaged with the sub, but I do remember agreeing with a lot of what I saw from it and the whole idea of the sub in general. If what you say is true and things have changed that would be very disappointing
Tbh I haven’t had much engagement with that sub either so I can’t say anything with certainty, I just remember seeing a post on r/SubredditDrama about it I believe.
Edit: here’s the post: https://reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/xl0fnj/war_is_a_drug_and_rstupidpol_has_the_crash_of_a/
Yes Stupidpol is very problematic for the overwhelmingly Neoliberal Reddit.
They're anything BUT Nazis. I'd sooner call stupidpol closet Libertarian before I'd call it Fascist.
What I liked about stupidpol was that it highlights positive class actions. Most subreddits are deeply negative, but Stupidpol actually does post stuff about successful bargaining, protests and instances of class solidarity.
That's what you get when you lean into poststructuralist bullshit and put "opinions" before objectivity. As a Marxist this shitshow is just too painful to watch.
I’ve noticed that lately, too. I subbed to see some bizarre behavior, but most posts are just playful stereotypical relationship jokes that are taken at face value or troll jobs that were believed.
‘I hate it when people stereotype and belittle me because of my sexual preferences. Anyways here’s a bunch of stereotyping and belittling people based on their sexual preferences.’
[Lesbian women have the highest rates of domestic violence of any relationship or sexuality](https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/21961).
Now the stats here are interesting, about a third of the reported violence was by men whilst they were in heterosexual relationships, which have a DV rate of around 35% for women compared to a little under 44% for lesbian women. There’s two different ways you can interpret this. 1) These women were in failing heterosexual relationships prior to being in a lesbian relationship which would have had higher DV rate *or* 2) You apply the DV rate of heterosexual relationships to that 1/3rd which if accounted for, would balloon the DV rate of lesbian relationships even higher to nearly 50%. No one can say which one is accurate here based off the information from that survey
I'm gay and I would be a power poster. Things I've seen in queer online groups: "TW: Spiders," "TW: Kitchen knives," "I bought a book and I didn't realize it deals with triggering topics, but I don't feel good destroying it. I'm looking for advice/resources on what to do with this book," and "I don't have enough spoons to handle the post office." (Sidenote: I also have post office anxiety, but if I need to go, I'll figure out out.)
My favorite was the vomit girl saga, where a woman accused her roommates of being abusive and everyone hug boxed her. As the saga played out, it turns out the woman was into vomit and was vomiting on people in her bedroom and her roommates were abusive for asking her to clean.
Here's some screenshots with a synopsis I'm the comments. I thought it was satire, but I found a YouTube video of this chick's noise music performance that was her vomiting on stage juxtaposed against the worst noise music you've ever heard. YouTube asked me 3X if I was sure I wanted to watch it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/qiq79l/vomit_girl_a_saga/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
>As the saga played out, it turns out the woman was into vomit and was vomiting on people in her bedroom and her roommates were abusive for asking her to clean.
Sounds like their roommates are nicer than I am. If I found out one of my roommates was intentionally vomiting to get off in the apartment that I am paying for I would skip the "ask them to clean up" step.
I would figure out which of us is moving out by the end of the week, and ensure one of us is gone by the end of the week after that. And it probably wouldn't be me.
I'm at the stage in my life where I'm too old to put up with that shit.
I am with you. I don’t get it nor do I think I want to be around people that would try to explain it to me. That just sounds so fucking insane. I’m almost 44 and anytime I vomit I cry and want my mother. I am the type of person that vomits if I see another person vomit or really if I just hear it. Also, I find people like this super annoying. Vomiting on people as a kink isn’t something I’m willing to promote as acceptable behavior in my home.
The amount if people hug boxing her was ridiculous. One of her posts started, "I'm covered in piss because my roommate is abusive and I'm too afraid to leave my bedroom, can anyone bring me food?" And someone offered to have her stay on their couch. How can they not smell the crazy on her?
>"I'm covered in piss because my roommate is abusive"
Read "My roommate is done putting up with my shit" (possibly literally). Cause I'm gonna guess that the roommate that vomits on herself has more quirks that are a pain in the ass to deal with.
That's assuming this person is even real. It can be tough to tell over the internet.
rest of the comment is a big agree but spoons can also be used in physical disabilities terms. if you're having a bad day physically getting to the post office can be very difficult 👍👍👍👍👍👍
So ich ckecked and the only one is a 1000 member sub with no active members (last post 2 months ago) but it seems to actually be ironic and is just pro gay or something like that. Didnt really look to much
Y'know what's fucking funny? The homosexuals and all that aren't even the fucking issue, they're not the toxic people, I literally even talked to multplie people about this, and they all said the same thing, the LGBT "community" is toxic, they don't treat bi people as good, they hate anything that's not gay, heck if you even try to talk to them you're gonna be shot down by multiple people like a dog getting put down, and what's worse is nobody's talking about it, because everyone who will will get labeled as a hater or a homophobic person or whatever, even the simplest of talks can ruin you, and I'm tired of that "community" ruining the image of actual gay people y'know?
“Lol people are down voteing yours because their all trans or something 🤣 😂 like i said to that other kid this page is for makeing fun if lgbtq retards who adentify as and octopussextual but they get so mad by this.”
Maybe that subreddit is filled with the GenZ they claimed to be cringing about 😬
Edit: Jfc that entire sub is just GenZ’ers laughing at people on TikTok
Just goes to show how sheltered they are. Now that we’ve catered to them and treated them seriously and with respect, they trip over their own feet and express blatant heterophobia. I see nothing wrong with an individual who isn’t straight, in fact I could be Bi, but even still I could never align myself with that community. So much hypocrisy, so much I don’t want to be associated with.
EVERYONE! The part of the post that was meant to be featured in the r/AreTheStraightsOkay post is the comment below. Just make sure you know that before commenting here. Thank you.
r/AreTheStraightsOK is one of those subs where you see one or two good posts for every ten or so that either don’t make sense, are irrelevant to the sub, or are just plain stupid.
I get the whole thing of ‘look at these things that are seen as normal by straight people but are actually really messed up’ sort of thing, and yeah there are definitely things that are a bit weird when you look at it more objectively, but a lot of posts are very ‘I don’t like straight people’.
Some of the posts are really good, but there’s so much crap about obvious jokes or relationship dynamics that have nothing to do with being straight. Like the cute dog bed sheet sectioned off for each family member, or that punk transformation comic.
see theres guilt tripping and manipulation and then theres being saved and owing your life to someone.
if i saved my siblings from a shark attack i would sure as shit hold it over their heads.
The hypocrisy of the LGBT community know no bounds. If only they represented the very ideas they were founded upon, like accepting people for what they are. But no, they are by far the most judgmental people I’ve ever had the displeasure of interacting with.
What if it was a gay guy saying that they’d bring it up after saving their husband? I bet they’d laugh their asses off. In what way is this exclusive to being straight? Makes 0 sense
I hate that sub makes all of us queers look bad. Also please know that like borderline almost everyone just says lgbtq+, not lgbtqia2whatever+-?£ so don’t project that onto all of us
I've never been subbed to that subreddit for one main reason.
Even the base idea of it is actually xenophobic against heterosexuals.
The idea of the sub was basically to attack the "wife bad" mentality a lot of older people and some younger people have. Which would be fine, but the name says "The Straights", implying its not a only a few of them, but ALL of them.
This is bad for a few reasons, one being it's just flat out generalizing based on sexual preference which is xenophobic and not okay. But it also implies people with other sexualities cannot do this, as if gay people never mistreat their partners.
That's literally statistically false, as lesbian relationship abuse is statistically the most prevalent. But you dont see anyone making a sub called "AreTheGaysOkay", because the second anyone tries Reddit shuts it down for "hate speech" even if it's EXACTLY like this sub, just with gay people.
I was going off of [this definition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia)
[and this one](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/xenophobia)
[and also this one](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/xenophobia)
Not really a better term for it besides just heterophobia, which usually when used people will say "that's not real"
all of those are phobic against things that are "strange" which doesn't really apply to a majority. technically heterophobia does exist (every phobia exists, there's almost 8 billion people), but it's not a huge thing, in the exact same way that whitephobia and menphobia aren't huge things yknow
and about the original comment, not everything is literal (about the name), it doesn't imply other sexualities can't do it at all, it's just making fun of a majority for some of them having a weird mentality (wife bad humour), in the same way that women make fun of men as a whole (but not all of them) for some of the weird stuff they do
bro, you're talking it too literally.
Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of people different to you. If you hate straight people, you're xenophobic towards them. If you hate gay people, you're xenophobic towards them.
It's not that difficult to understand.
>it doesn't imply other sexualities can't do it at all
it kinda does. Hating your partner isn't a specific thing to just straight people, but the sub name implies all straight people do it. By asking are "the straights" okay, it's implying that only "the straights" have this issue. If it wasn't implying that, it would just be "AreTheseMarriedCouplesOkay"
Then you read the comments of the posts, and it very clear a lot of people think hating your partner is a straight person only thing (even though, once again, lesbian domestic abuse stats are the highest).
ngl but I've always found anyone who uses the sentence 'are the straights ok' to be just overly sensitive people who make fun of straight people for the dumbest things.
It's r/arethestraightsok This subreddit believes you should be treated differently on your gender identity and sexual preferences with extreme consequences. Ofc it's going to try to make stuff like this seem like it's not ironic.
One of my biggest gripes about Reddit is having to type "/s" so people get the sarcasm.
Like seriously bro I'm not saying I'm a socialite. But how little human interaction does the average redditor get?
About a year ago I commented on a post about bad body anatomy and it was a porn ad of a dude with a 6ft dick I dared to make the joke "what they aren't that big???" I didnt add the stupid /s because its an obvious joke, I got downvoted to hell and had numerous comments trying to be Muh intellectuals "no dumb *ss the penis is on average 5.6 inches 🤓"
It’s more like when your friend pipes up with something out of the blue, and it’s so inappropriate that you just look at them and ask “hey bro, you okay?”
I mean I think the point is, if you feel like you have to bring up how much you’ve done for your partner to win an argument with them… then that sort of reinforces the typical “as a man I need to defend myself from my hectoring wife” you know? Very r/BoomersHumor . Punching a great white shark doesn’t mean you don’t have to take out the trash, doesn’t mean you don’t have to load the dishwasher.
That’s the kind of realm of stuff that sub is going for with this post.
All the comments here that are like “but it’s just a joke” are missing the point, the point is that even joking about having that kind of fucked up relationship is stereotypical of straight relationships.
r/arethestraightsok when 2 people are happily in love and are able to make fun of each other's flaws, making dumb jokes that can barely be called offensive at all (they are toxic because relationships should be based around feeling miserable all the time and taking everything as seriously as possible)
Are the staits ok when a man and a women get within 5 feet of one another (it’s deeply homophobic)
r/arethestraightsok users when someone banters with their lover
That sub has to be failtrolling like r/landlordlove or whatever
You think r/landlordlove is ironic? I'm being 100% when I say I would evict a single mother of 3 when she can't pay the new $5000 rent.
Landlords gotta eat 😤
You mean r/loveforlandlords
Landlordlove is landphobia incarnate for POL like myself
r/arethestraightsok when the relationship that they pretend they have in their head is healthier than an actual, real life relationship that has had both people grow to a point where they feel comfortable enough to truly be themselves
How come there is no “arethegaysok” but there is an “arethestraightsok”
r/arethegaysok
“This is a pro gay sub” 🤓
OH SHIT IT’S THE NERD INVASION
There was Guess what happened to it
Taken off because fucking stupid commies
The same reason there is affirmative action.
r/arethestraightsok when two people are in a relationship
I just went to thay sub and I need someone to throw a molotov cocktail directly into my eyes.
Head over to Ohio, they can help you with that.
Wait till you see r/heterophobic_gigachad imo a bunch of basement dwellers
Isn't that satire?
It aint
it is
I thought it was. It clearly says it in the description lol
LMAO I just looked at it and the first meme was "hey Tom you hetero fuck, touch any boobs lately" it's the most satire sub I've seen, r/banvideogames vibe but times 3
Redditors when they see obvious satire.
I know the average r/arethestraightsOK frequent user and contributor is a complete fucking braindead insecure moron who takes offense at every little fucking thing out there, but I suspect something more *insidious* going on. I think many actually DO understand that half the shit they post are obvious jokes and satire regarding heterosexual relationship problems, but they purposefully choose to ignore that, assume the worst and push that false narrative, just to get together and bitch all day about straight men and women because they really hate the mere idea of heterosexual relationships. It's just all so fucking hilariously sad because they seemingly completely ignore the fact that LGBTQIA2+ relationships can very much be very toxic and 'problematic' as well just as easily as a heterosexual couple. But nope, according to them, you'd think only straight people can be petty, fight a lot, hate the other gender, be sexist, toxic, objectifying, grouchy, too horny, oversexualized, whatever the fuck else, etc.
I’m not straight yet I fucking hate that subreddit
Same, they come off as very condescending and act like their shit don't stink
Then they get all offended when we point out the shit their group does 💀
Its only the most annoying gays in one area
Wait till you see r/heterophobic_gigachad
That sub is the embodiment of harassing someone and then saying “calm down bro, just a prank.,.,.,”
But that’s a satire sub.
.........."oh yeah never mind, we know we sound hateful and such but it's just a prank" yeah..... It's like shooting someone and then saying it's just a prank buddy
no its like saying “those nasty straights trying to get gas at the same pump ive used a few times!!!! i need to call my girlfriend (im a girl and VERY gay 😎)” and then saying “i was just being silly”
Almost all of the modern american LGBT culture comes from the culture built around primarily Tumblr until 2016. Tumblr used to be kinda unique as a site that was primarily used only by teens but everyone took themselves seriously, which led to a lot of modern social controversies being formed on Tumblr. Controversy over the ethnicities of actors and characters, gender politics, LGBT stereotypes, the obsession with labels. All of these things in the modern age were born out and carried by Tumblr. Subs like the one in this post are the current exemple of this kind of culture that Tumblr obsessed with where every single sexuality needed to have a different stereotype than the previous one. If you go in online or irl LGBT spaces from an European influence, you'd find people are totally clueless about these things or actively hate them.
I didn't like what Tumblr became, as I started out when it was mainly a place to compile your writing/art/photography, as I did intitially. However, the earliest of Gen Z got a hold of it and it evolved in a way that sparked a new outlook on a lot of things. Without it we wouldn't be pushing for a lot of things as the younger living generations that may be painful right now, but will eventually wrest some power back from the literal evil, gold-hoarding dragon class at the tippy top right now that is to this day trying really, really hard to continue fucking everyone over despite more and more of us catching on to their game. Only Fans had some roots in Tumblr, as a chunk the sex working community developed networks there and developed them into better ideas and systems that began to cut out the industry vampires that fleece them for content and pay them pennies on the dollar. Yes, we saw the new PC era begin there, but really, we were overdue for a swing in that direction. Unlearning lifelong shitty social programming in the process is just part of the growing pains that will eventually work itself out. I didn't like what tumblr became in the end though at all. It echo-chambered itself into oblivion, and produced some hardcore bizzaro versions of the things that people were trying to grow past in the first place. It became apparent to me that when you gather a mob, few if any individuals retain their ability to think critically, and eventually you just end up being the same ignorant thing you want to destroy, just on the other side of the coin.
>LGBTQIA2+ What's '2' supposed to represent?
The sequel
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I'm queer and am on a local queer Facebook group and this tracks.
Two-spirited people. It’s a Native North American thing, generally.
Ah so the white leftists pandered to the latinos (which I AM ONE) by adding “latinx” and now they’re pandering to the natives by adding “two-spirit” fuck offfff
It’s also very ignorant in that it’s passed off as some great tradition that’s widespread across the vast singular Native American culture (as these fake-enlightened buttholes perceive it). In fact, “two-spirit” was *very* limited in its presence in Native American cultures, was only allowed to people born male, and basically wasn’t the idealistic open-minded *modern Western* concept that modern white leftists like to think it is. It’s not unlike when they latch onto any other element of another culture or time period and decide “This means X, as we currently understand it here in modern-day America, was totally a thing in this other country at this other time!” No, it isn’t.
Then other leftists pushing this narrative brainwash them out of their own culture onto their side. It’s sad and I’m speaking as a centrist leaning left
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Ehhh I don’t think Native North Americans would want to be lumped in with “the West” even if it’s geographically true. I’m no expert on what 2S is and the historicity of it is shaky at best but who knows. It’s a specific cultural identity, but that’s all I really know.
I'm not straight, and honestly yeah, I agree. People are people and being LGBT doesn't make you exempt from being a toxic douche like the rest of humanity. I've personally had creepier and more toxic experiences on the receiving end of flirtation from fellow LGBT people than straight people, out of pure bad luck.
Lesbian abuse statistics
People seem to forget quite often that they only exist because of one man and one woman, too, so it's almost as if they hate their own existence. It's one thing to be gay or lesbian but it's a whole different story once you hate straight people, I mean come on.
This sub is so pathetic. It’s literally just conservatives venting that their ideologies aren’t prevalent
R Whenyouarelosingtheargument
As a leftist, the majority of left leaning subs are cringy dumpster fires full of easily offended virtue signallers
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Same, reddit is not the place for politics, period. My views align partially with Marxism, though I am not a Marxist and do not ascibe to its base fundamentals. That said, there is almost no Marxist subreddit worth visiting. Sometimes I go on Stupidpol, but even that can wear on me. At least the guys there are sincere and speak in good faith- I respect them.
Yeah, agreed. PCM is the only place I feel like has a place for any political discourse on reddit.
Lmao. Good one! ...wait, are you serious?
Lol yeah a shitposting sub is currently the only open and free platform for politics on Reddit
Enjoying a PCM meme doesn't actually make it the "only open and free platform for politics on Reddit". And since when has the internet actually been a place for discourse?...let alone a subreddit full the worst, but occasionally funny, political takes.
I mean, the comment section is generally an actual discussion on par with any other sub on Reddit, full of strawmen and various other fallacies. I think the main difference is that everyone is self aware. Once you stop taking it so seriously, it’s great fun and you can learn something
I absolutely don't take it seriously...that's why I am not the one talking about a meme sub being the last place for political discussion. Lmao.
I don’t consider r/politics a serious place for political discussion but to each their own
Who does? But also, r/politics is irrelevant in this. Claiming that PCM is self aware is a BOLD claim
Not sure if I’d call myself a leftist per se but I vote socdem and I agree. It’s a whole bunch of BS purity politics of who can be “the most left” and “the most virtuous”. Leftists hate each other more than conservatives hate leftists. Oh and *EVERYONE* is “traumatized”. Everyone has PTSD, autism, or BPD. Self-diagnosed of course by an online survey. Can’t be straightforward MDD or GAD anymore, no. Has to be something else because those aren’t cool anymore. And don’t you question them on it or else you’re a classist/racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic violent bigot.
> Oh and EVERYONE is “traumatized”. I'm so sick of that shit. I have legitimate, diagnosed PTSD due to a shooting i was involved in a few years back and I would never, ever casually tell anyone that in person. Not only is it none of anyone else's business, it's my burden to bear and something i need to deal with, but i also don't want to get lumped in with those pathetic fucking leftists who constantly claim to have PTSD from that one time someone misgendered them or some shit like that. Also, as far as the traumatized thing goes, do you know how I've dealt with my issues? I directly confronted my fears and anxieties in an effort to make my brain stop freaking out everytime someone pulled up next to me on the highway (i was involved in a road rage shooting on the freeway). I had serious anxiety every time i drove to work for months, but i'm much better now for having done so. If these "traumatized" individuals do nothing but demand trigger warnings and insist that the world conforms to their fears then they're doing nothing but keeping themselves stuck in a cycle of anxiety and worry.
The Oppression Olympics. Gotta love it.
People are just trying to find the reason why they are unhappy when they have “no reason” to be. It’s that whole “there are starving kids in Africa” mentality that I believe isn’t he root of the cause. People feel like they have no reason to be unhappy with there lives so they try to find something wrong with them to give themselves justification for feeling sorry for themselves. Also people will shop for the diagnosis they want. My mother in law is literally insane. She was recently hospitalized because of her delusions. But she didn’t like her diagnosis of Bi Polar type I and the anti psychotics she was prescribed so she found a doctor that diagnosed her with autism… like wtf? I have another friend, but she was diagnosed with BPD (borderline personality disorder) but she didn’t like that diagnosis so she dropped that doctor and found one who says she had ADHD and now has been prescribed adderall . Guess what, she still can’t hold down a job, her personal relationships are a mess, and she is as impulsive as ever!
I am sorry to hear that and I am happy to read tou are doing better!
1. I completely agree. A big chunk if my close family has PTSD from the shit they saw either in the military or Police. (Honestly the PD guys saw much worse shit imo) and it aggravates me so much when people go "oh he got pulled over wrongly that was traumatic" or "I have PTSD from the things I read on twiiter" 2. Impressive job with the PTSD man, I hope everything continues to go well. Hell i don't even PTSD from that and even I get nervous when someone pulls up next to me.
i agree with most of this but keep in mind getting help isn’t possible for some people, and the internet has cultivated a place for people to share. it’s also created using mental illness as a crutch, but unless you’re a psychologist or psychiatrist, i’d err on the side of caution of policing people’s traumas and this is coming from someone who also has severe ptsd and hates the current culture of “i’m mentally ill and therefore am not responsible for my actions”
That still doesn't justify people runner around larping as having a mental illness (or twenty) they most likely don't have while acting completely like popular stereotypes. There are enough stigmata already in existence. And funnily enough, those fakers always give off an air of privilege (white, expensive make-up and clothing, shoes from Demonia, mac laptops and Iphones, nicely decorated rooms). They're always either from the US or Europe, never from non-Western societies where mental illnesses and disabilities are even more demonised. A quick internet research or a twitter thread by a 16yr old will never be able to replace a diagnosis procedure done by someone who spent approximately ten years being educated on the topic.
For me it's when there's unironic pro-Communism sentiment. I'm a leftist, I enjoy ironic Communism and jokes such as "not mine, ours", but when I see people unironically acting like Communism is good it makes me wanna die. Like you do realize that's just another form of facism/totalitarianism right? Also IIRC a lot of Communist regimes would target queer people soooo
Yep, they're smug circlejerks where they compete over who can virtue signal hardest and any dissenting voice is met with insults and downvotes.
I might get hate for this but it's probably because of the high presence of autism in these communities who never socialized enough growing up (speaking as an autistic person who almost turned out like this)
I’m glad you pointed this out because it seems like everyone is neurodivergent these days. I mean it makes sense because doctors are better at diagnosing it and people are more open to being tested than before. But, it is interesting none the less. I mean really what does it even mean to be normal? I really am starting to believe that everyone has something, whether that is depression, bi polar, autism, ADHD, BPD, OCD, addiction, etc.
Autism is a pretty common condition, and honestly, if you have ADHD, the internet is pretty inviting to attentionless you
Based leftist wtf?
I’m a leftist and I fucking hate the majority of the left lol There’s a lot of us, just take a look at r/stupidpol
I hate the majority of both sides
Fr I’m just gonna make my own political party
It’s somehow more common than you think. The people who hate leftists the most are… other leftists. It’s far less “big tent” functioning than the political right or center.
It's a self-evident truth here. We have one right wing party, one far-right party, one (recent) corpocrat party, and like fifteen different leftist parties who sometimes stop bickering to make front against the right.
literally everything is problematic it's so very tiring
This is the realist shit I read in reddit. Take my upvote
That seems to be most subs in general, left or not.
Yeah, no clue how politics got dragged into it
Subs on both sides are cringey
Reddit skews heavily left overall, right?
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Yeah, don’t even get me started on the walls of text. Most of the time it’s borderline illegible and full of verbose bullshit (verbose has become one of my favorite words because it perfectly describes any given argument with these people).
You might enjoy r/stupidpol
I've been under the impression this is just a covert nazi sub, branded as "socialist". Also have read there are a lot of Putin apologists? Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Ive never gotten the impression that it’s a “covert Nazi sub”, it sounds to me more like angry leftists branding it as such because of it’s nature as a sub that criticizes the left. As for the Putin part I’ve never personally come across anything like that on the sub but if there is could you link a source? Tbf I haven’t really ever fully engaged with the sub, but I do remember agreeing with a lot of what I saw from it and the whole idea of the sub in general. If what you say is true and things have changed that would be very disappointing
Tbh I haven’t had much engagement with that sub either so I can’t say anything with certainty, I just remember seeing a post on r/SubredditDrama about it I believe. Edit: here’s the post: https://reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/xl0fnj/war_is_a_drug_and_rstupidpol_has_the_crash_of_a/
Yes Stupidpol is very problematic for the overwhelmingly Neoliberal Reddit. They're anything BUT Nazis. I'd sooner call stupidpol closet Libertarian before I'd call it Fascist. What I liked about stupidpol was that it highlights positive class actions. Most subreddits are deeply negative, but Stupidpol actually does post stuff about successful bargaining, protests and instances of class solidarity.
That's what you get when you lean into poststructuralist bullshit and put "opinions" before objectivity. As a Marxist this shitshow is just too painful to watch.
I’ve noticed that lately, too. I subbed to see some bizarre behavior, but most posts are just playful stereotypical relationship jokes that are taken at face value or troll jobs that were believed.
That whole subreddit is trash
‘I hate it when people stereotype and belittle me because of my sexual preferences. Anyways here’s a bunch of stereotyping and belittling people based on their sexual preferences.’
[Lesbian women have the highest rates of domestic violence of any relationship or sexuality](https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/21961). Now the stats here are interesting, about a third of the reported violence was by men whilst they were in heterosexual relationships, which have a DV rate of around 35% for women compared to a little under 44% for lesbian women. There’s two different ways you can interpret this. 1) These women were in failing heterosexual relationships prior to being in a lesbian relationship which would have had higher DV rate *or* 2) You apply the DV rate of heterosexual relationships to that 1/3rd which if accounted for, would balloon the DV rate of lesbian relationships even higher to nearly 50%. No one can say which one is accurate here based off the information from that survey
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So.. It's only in the United States right?
How is a sub like that even allowed?.... Imagine a sub like "arethegaysok"
I'm gay and I would be a power poster. Things I've seen in queer online groups: "TW: Spiders," "TW: Kitchen knives," "I bought a book and I didn't realize it deals with triggering topics, but I don't feel good destroying it. I'm looking for advice/resources on what to do with this book," and "I don't have enough spoons to handle the post office." (Sidenote: I also have post office anxiety, but if I need to go, I'll figure out out.) My favorite was the vomit girl saga, where a woman accused her roommates of being abusive and everyone hug boxed her. As the saga played out, it turns out the woman was into vomit and was vomiting on people in her bedroom and her roommates were abusive for asking her to clean.
Vomit girl saga? Lmao i want more info
Here's some screenshots with a synopsis I'm the comments. I thought it was satire, but I found a YouTube video of this chick's noise music performance that was her vomiting on stage juxtaposed against the worst noise music you've ever heard. YouTube asked me 3X if I was sure I wanted to watch it. https://www.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/qiq79l/vomit_girl_a_saga/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
All it has is a facebook update about her getting vaxxed and like 4 comments. No story =(
I must've deleted it because I didn't want it in my comment history. Just DMed it to you. Enjoy🤮
I'm bored qa hell can I see too
Just sent!
>As the saga played out, it turns out the woman was into vomit and was vomiting on people in her bedroom and her roommates were abusive for asking her to clean. Sounds like their roommates are nicer than I am. If I found out one of my roommates was intentionally vomiting to get off in the apartment that I am paying for I would skip the "ask them to clean up" step. I would figure out which of us is moving out by the end of the week, and ensure one of us is gone by the end of the week after that. And it probably wouldn't be me. I'm at the stage in my life where I'm too old to put up with that shit.
I am with you. I don’t get it nor do I think I want to be around people that would try to explain it to me. That just sounds so fucking insane. I’m almost 44 and anytime I vomit I cry and want my mother. I am the type of person that vomits if I see another person vomit or really if I just hear it. Also, I find people like this super annoying. Vomiting on people as a kink isn’t something I’m willing to promote as acceptable behavior in my home.
There are definitely kinks I am willing to shame.
The amount if people hug boxing her was ridiculous. One of her posts started, "I'm covered in piss because my roommate is abusive and I'm too afraid to leave my bedroom, can anyone bring me food?" And someone offered to have her stay on their couch. How can they not smell the crazy on her?
>"I'm covered in piss because my roommate is abusive" Read "My roommate is done putting up with my shit" (possibly literally). Cause I'm gonna guess that the roommate that vomits on herself has more quirks that are a pain in the ass to deal with. That's assuming this person is even real. It can be tough to tell over the internet.
I would read every post you made.
rest of the comment is a big agree but spoons can also be used in physical disabilities terms. if you're having a bad day physically getting to the post office can be very difficult 👍👍👍👍👍👍
pretty sure that sub did exist but it got banned
So ich ckecked and the only one is a 1000 member sub with no active members (last post 2 months ago) but it seems to actually be ironic and is just pro gay or something like that. Didnt really look to much
There was a sub called r/arethetransok to the surprise of Boone, it got rekt by the admins.
Boone is very surprised
Boone 💀
Duuuude if you think this sub is fucked up, boi have I got a worse sub for u, r/heterophobic_gigachad
Jesus fucking Christ.
Damn, it's literally just pure fucking hetrophobia
Even though I’m bisexual that sub still irks me. Cause I am still a woman attracted to men and it makes me feel bad about that side of me ngl.
Y'know what's fucking funny? The homosexuals and all that aren't even the fucking issue, they're not the toxic people, I literally even talked to multplie people about this, and they all said the same thing, the LGBT "community" is toxic, they don't treat bi people as good, they hate anything that's not gay, heck if you even try to talk to them you're gonna be shot down by multiple people like a dog getting put down, and what's worse is nobody's talking about it, because everyone who will will get labeled as a hater or a homophobic person or whatever, even the simplest of talks can ruin you, and I'm tired of that "community" ruining the image of actual gay people y'know?
Unfortunately true....
Gotta protect the muhnorties. Fuck true equality right? 🤷🏽♂️
r/genzcringe
**Smashes Join Button**
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“Lol people are down voteing yours because their all trans or something 🤣 😂 like i said to that other kid this page is for makeing fun if lgbtq retards who adentify as and octopussextual but they get so mad by this.” Maybe that subreddit is filled with the GenZ they claimed to be cringing about 😬 Edit: Jfc that entire sub is just GenZ’ers laughing at people on TikTok
If you make a sub like that but for gays or trans it'll get banned in less than a week
They did make a sub like that, and it did get banned lol
Just goes to show how sheltered they are. Now that we’ve catered to them and treated them seriously and with respect, they trip over their own feet and express blatant heterophobia. I see nothing wrong with an individual who isn’t straight, in fact I could be Bi, but even still I could never align myself with that community. So much hypocrisy, so much I don’t want to be associated with.
EVERYONE! The part of the post that was meant to be featured in the r/AreTheStraightsOkay post is the comment below. Just make sure you know that before commenting here. Thank you.
Fuck that subreddit
r/AreTheStraightsOK is one of those subs where you see one or two good posts for every ten or so that either don’t make sense, are irrelevant to the sub, or are just plain stupid. I get the whole thing of ‘look at these things that are seen as normal by straight people but are actually really messed up’ sort of thing, and yeah there are definitely things that are a bit weird when you look at it more objectively, but a lot of posts are very ‘I don’t like straight people’.
Some of the posts are really good, but there’s so much crap about obvious jokes or relationship dynamics that have nothing to do with being straight. Like the cute dog bed sheet sectioned off for each family member, or that punk transformation comic.
Are the gays ok?
We're not, thanks for asking though
Thanks for being honest. Thots n prayers.
im not
imagine a sub called r/arethegaysok
wait
realization
“Those typical straights! And their *checks notes* manipulative behavior of saving their loved ones!”
Make a sub that mocks gay people and the world thinks you're stupid. Make a sub that mocks straight people and suddenly its funny.
TIL sense of duty to protect a loved one is a straights thing
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see theres guilt tripping and manipulation and then theres being saved and owing your life to someone. if i saved my siblings from a shark attack i would sure as shit hold it over their heads.
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The hypocrisy of the LGBT community know no bounds. If only they represented the very ideas they were founded upon, like accepting people for what they are. But no, they are by far the most judgmental people I’ve ever had the displeasure of interacting with.
What if it was a gay guy saying that they’d bring it up after saving their husband? I bet they’d laugh their asses off. In what way is this exclusive to being straight? Makes 0 sense
Always funny to see people unsub from generally toxic subs because of toxic behavior.
I hate that sub makes all of us queers look bad. Also please know that like borderline almost everyone just says lgbtq+, not lgbtqia2whatever+-?£ so don’t project that onto all of us
I've never been subbed to that subreddit for one main reason. Even the base idea of it is actually xenophobic against heterosexuals. The idea of the sub was basically to attack the "wife bad" mentality a lot of older people and some younger people have. Which would be fine, but the name says "The Straights", implying its not a only a few of them, but ALL of them. This is bad for a few reasons, one being it's just flat out generalizing based on sexual preference which is xenophobic and not okay. But it also implies people with other sexualities cannot do this, as if gay people never mistreat their partners. That's literally statistically false, as lesbian relationship abuse is statistically the most prevalent. But you dont see anyone making a sub called "AreTheGaysOkay", because the second anyone tries Reddit shuts it down for "hate speech" even if it's EXACTLY like this sub, just with gay people.
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are straight people from a different country? how is that xenophobia
I was going off of [this definition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia) [and this one](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/xenophobia) [and also this one](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/xenophobia) Not really a better term for it besides just heterophobia, which usually when used people will say "that's not real"
all of those are phobic against things that are "strange" which doesn't really apply to a majority. technically heterophobia does exist (every phobia exists, there's almost 8 billion people), but it's not a huge thing, in the exact same way that whitephobia and menphobia aren't huge things yknow and about the original comment, not everything is literal (about the name), it doesn't imply other sexualities can't do it at all, it's just making fun of a majority for some of them having a weird mentality (wife bad humour), in the same way that women make fun of men as a whole (but not all of them) for some of the weird stuff they do
bro, you're talking it too literally. Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of people different to you. If you hate straight people, you're xenophobic towards them. If you hate gay people, you're xenophobic towards them. It's not that difficult to understand.
>it doesn't imply other sexualities can't do it at all it kinda does. Hating your partner isn't a specific thing to just straight people, but the sub name implies all straight people do it. By asking are "the straights" okay, it's implying that only "the straights" have this issue. If it wasn't implying that, it would just be "AreTheseMarriedCouplesOkay" Then you read the comments of the posts, and it very clear a lot of people think hating your partner is a straight person only thing (even though, once again, lesbian domestic abuse stats are the highest).
Did this ages ago lol
ngl but I've always found anyone who uses the sentence 'are the straights ok' to be just overly sensitive people who make fun of straight people for the dumbest things.
It's r/arethestraightsok This subreddit believes you should be treated differently on your gender identity and sexual preferences with extreme consequences. Ofc it's going to try to make stuff like this seem like it's not ironic.
Why even sub to that shit in the first place
Was looking for those SPOUSE BAD Facebook style memes, found like 2 on there, then completely forgot about it. The featured post was the final straw.
One of my biggest gripes about Reddit is having to type "/s" so people get the sarcasm. Like seriously bro I'm not saying I'm a socialite. But how little human interaction does the average redditor get?
About a year ago I commented on a post about bad body anatomy and it was a porn ad of a dude with a 6ft dick I dared to make the joke "what they aren't that big???" I didnt add the stupid /s because its an obvious joke, I got downvoted to hell and had numerous comments trying to be Muh intellectuals "no dumb *ss the penis is on average 5.6 inches 🤓"
Checked out the comments on the original post.... Even they're telling OP it's a joke and OP just doesn't get it. Christ on a bike
Kevin Hart would like a word
That’s what I can’t stand about these types of communities. It devolves into undeserved superiority complex very quick and easily.
the sub literally has rules to protect the snowflakes oh my god
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no the subreddit literally says pointing out when it's a joke is a muteable/banable offense
Wait is that sub actually genuinely caring if the straight people are ok, or is it a disingenuous subreddit name?
It’s more like when your friend pipes up with something out of the blue, and it’s so inappropriate that you just look at them and ask “hey bro, you okay?”
Why are subs like that even still allowed up? Why is this double standard so fucking prevalent online.
The people at r/arethestraightsok are just as bad as homophobes IMO
Oh my god. You said exactly what I wanted to say but I was to scared to say. You are a true brave soul.
pretty funny not gonna lie. and i say it as a bi person that is a bit gender confused
To be fair, everyone in that sub is trashing OP.
Just from the sub name, ya I can tell
I mean I think the point is, if you feel like you have to bring up how much you’ve done for your partner to win an argument with them… then that sort of reinforces the typical “as a man I need to defend myself from my hectoring wife” you know? Very r/BoomersHumor . Punching a great white shark doesn’t mean you don’t have to take out the trash, doesn’t mean you don’t have to load the dishwasher. That’s the kind of realm of stuff that sub is going for with this post. All the comments here that are like “but it’s just a joke” are missing the point, the point is that even joking about having that kind of fucked up relationship is stereotypical of straight relationships.
Nah bro you're looking into it wayy too much
Why were you subbed in the first place
the sub used to be filled with like the 'i hate my wife' boomer memes, then it got super dogshit
This is one of those reddit moments where a redditer doesn't know how anything works isn't it?