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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Ever have one of those "How the fuck am I still single, when this is my competition?!" moments?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Literally every time I read something like this

But then I remember I barely leave my house due to Covid, don’t really like meeting people or going out anyway, and the last relationship I was in we broke up because she held extremely bourgeois values and was an anticommunist. So sometimes the women are just as reactionary as the men, and also I do myself no favors being a crank shut in. So it actually makes complete sense why I’m single.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Crank shut-in volcel gang, we ~~out~~ in here.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally I think my problem is not replying to texts reliably, women seem to hate that

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost every goddamn day of my life, but I know the answer is that I don't put myself out there or make an effort to meet new people/potential love interests. I think I would make a good partner for someone, it's just a matter of actually seeking people out. Just sucks that guys are expected to make the first move most of the time and I'm terrible at gauging someone's interest in me.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It sure is very nice to be told that the bar is on the floor, when you still haven't managed to clear it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (4 children)

the older women in my family all resent how well my partner treats me. they keep saying i better be grateful and less annoying or else he will leave me. lol, lmao. we even have a thing where if we are around family he serves me food with the woman while i sit with the men, it pisses everyone off.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The chuds in my biological family (almost a "OOPS, ALL CHUDS!" meme) outright resented my wife because I didn't order her around like a robot. Even the female chuds were mad that their own sunk-cost fallacy of putting up with misogynistic chud husbands for decades of their miserable lives didn't get passed down toward her.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

sunk-cost fallacy of putting up with misogynistic chud husbands for decades of their miserable lives didn't get passed down toward her

I think thats the exact rational

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

my mom says that about my bf. claims hes too much of a catch and i dont do enough for him. of course some of this sentiment is transphobia, i do a lot with him

nah he just loves me the way i am mom cat-vibing

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Some older women one if them a midwife where really surprised about me saying that I really miss my kid and wish I was back home since I started going back to uni. Like "wow modern men really are something huh? Good for you!". Made me real sad for them because they have kids if their own.

Felt really weird to get lauded because I care about my own kid.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have the opposite experience - the older women in my family love and dote on my partner because of how sweet he is! It’s adorable. Also a little sad because I know a lot of them weren’t treated well by their (late or ex, fortunately) husbands.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I keep hearing about dudes just casually watching porn in non-masturbatory contexts the way I scroll through funny animal videos on Youtube and I just don't get it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know a guy who literally doesn't masturbate because it "ruins sex" but also is way into porn and watches it frequently. I don't get it either. I utilize porn as a tool but I can't imagine just watching it for watching's sake.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know a guy who literally doesn't masturbate because it "ruins sex" but also is way into porn and watches it frequently.

I knew someone very similar to that back in college. He claimed that the porn "motivated him" and not masturbating let him "channel his energy."

Ultimately he was just an aggressive misogynistic asshole who eventually found up-yours-woke-moralists

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

he watches it for the articles

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only guy I know that does this is also friends with porn directors and does communal porn watch parties (and other sex party stuff). So probably not the average example.

But I can think of few things less arousing than watching porn in a group.

Edit: I tell a lie, I also had a colleague of mine show a titty model gif and saying 'look at this cool thing'. He is also 20 years my senior. Just kind of confused by that more than anything, how the fuck are you supposed to react?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I can think of few things less arousing than watching porn in a group.

Imagining a bunch of hipster auteur types sipping wine and rubbing their chins, furiously writing in their little notebooks, while some Brazzers is playing in front of them all like: "ah yes the artistic choice of spreading the cumshot all across her back with a vibrator is a real insight into the perils of digital nomadism in the age of late capitalism"

I also had a colleague of mine show a titty model gif and saying 'look at this cool thing'. He is also 20 years my senior. Just kind of confused by that more than anything, how the fuck are you supposed to react?

"Impressive, very nice, now lets see Paul Allen's titty model gif" bateman-ontological

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagining a bunch of hipster auteur types sipping wine and rubbing their chins, furiously writing in their little notebooks, while some Brazzers is playing in front of them all like: "ah yes the artistic choice of spreading the cumshot all across her back with a vibrator is a real insight into the perils of digital nomadism in the age of late capitalism"

The vibrator is fucking blue kelly

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I knew a guy who would just watch porn in the breakroom at our warehouse job. An otherwise nice enough guy but it was very weird

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The nice thing about divorce in this case is that the kids wouldn't have a father in their life anyway.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

cereal2

cereal1 you right tho

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

yeah a lot of reddit posts def seem like bait. this sort of thing does happen though

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This can't be real. The bit about "everyone acting like it's totally normal" for something that's clearly not, and just the absurdity of the situation makes me believe it's fake. People can't be that shitty, can they? But in the 1% chance it's true, wtf

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"everyone" means "everyone immediately known to me whom i've asked," and there are some fucked up places out there

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Assuming the nurses/midwives are trained professionals, I'm going to guess that

A. They're too focused on their job to pay attention to what some observer is doing on the other side of the room

B. They've probably witnessed worse behavior from women's husbands during childbirth

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Having the internet on any pocket-sized device should be outlawed and hundreds of millions of people need to be put into rehabilitation camps.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On one hand we could just hang the techbro CEOs/execs and burn down their shitty social media servers then maybe the "internet" would go back to being more than the same 3 shit websites?

On the other hand I don't know if there is a cure for someone that spent 10 years on reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

everyone around me acting like it's a totally normal thing to be WATCHING PORN IN THE SAME ROOM YOUR LABORING WIFE IS IN

wut

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Entertainment has no effect on people which is why some can't voluntarily stop fucking consuming it for the sake of anyone else. If it wasn't porn it would be paddle balls or flipping a coin with equal intensity and fixation, because material conditions. smuglord

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife and I have had two children for both children, I had a bugout bag set up which included a book. Delivery takes hours, it's often quick near the end, but we had to wait through contractions and dilation. It is not normal to watch porn in situations like this - one can argue that pornography, outside of kink shows, or art exhibitions is meant for private consumption.

My jaw is on the floor. Holy shit.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Fake as hell, but as a AMAB person I can confirm that the bar is low. I get compliments fairly often by doing what seem to me like normal spouse/parent stuff. These compliments are always from women, which offers a depressing insight into what they've been conditioned to accept

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You'd think so, but if you are a single older guy, 'Being nice to people.' is seen as 'Being desperate for attention or interaction', at least until you hang out enough for people to realize 'oh no, he's fine with being ignored he's just a nice guy.' Which is wild to me because I see being an obnoxious asshole as being desperate for attention.

Social situations are completely fucked these days, especially with dating because of the toxic shit that both men and women are taught by 'dating gurus' on the internet. What happens is that people ask their friends advice on stuff, but their friends who are into these types of relationship dramas are getting their advice from people who are pushed on the algorithm, who are almost all people who are complete drama freaks. The amount of normalization (and romanticization) of whacky creepy behavior is wild.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

The amount of normalization (and romanticization) of whacky creepy behavior is wild.

TikTok is a nightmare world of glorifying precious smol bean quirky abusers.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

My partner had to get an endoscopy a couple of weeks ago and I sat with her the whole time, holding her hand and talking

The only time she was out of my sight was during the actual procedure and the second she was in recovery, I went back and sat with her until she was ready to have me drive her back home

I can't even imagine doing any less for someone I love

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure you're fine being on your phone here and there. Especially for the long ass labours that go 24 hours sometimes. The porn is a weird though you can go without that.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Seriously, the shit that I get praised for as a man is concerning. It's apparently unusual for a guy to talk about his spouse or baby approvingly, or to say 'thank you' to a fast food worker

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

thats just so fucking absurd though, like I could potentially understand rocking back and forth in the corner watching a movie with sweat running off your brow for a while to cope with the tension of the event, the birth of your child, but porn?!?!?!? What the fuck thats the last thing that should be on someone's mind in a situation like this lmao

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