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I really need people to know that Helen Keller did fly a plane and yes, this fact alone is the crux of a lot of weird Keller-denialism. It’s ironic that the woman in the post is suggesting the man mentioning Keller is ignorant for confusing her with Earhart, because he wasn’t. He is ignorant for thinking the Keller story is unbelievable, however.
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-helen-keller-fly-a-plane (egregious ad deployment on that site, fair warning)
I’m getting whiplash here.
First I’m told there’s a guy who didn’t know the difference between Helen Keller and Emilia Earhart.
Then I’m told that Helen Keller really did fly a plane, and that the guy wasn’t misspeaking.
And now I have to grapple with the fact that the guy wasn’t stupid, but rather a conspiracy theorist, and that “Helen Keller conspiracy theorists” are a real thing.
Welcome to the party, my friend. It’s BYOB and nobody brought beer.
More of a wine guy here, but I always bring extra.
The thing about the “there’s no way she flew that plane” thing is so annoying is that it’s not even that bold of a claim. They flew her up, she flew for a bit with someone there to take control if something bad happened, then they landed.
Literally. I don’t mean this to diminish Helen Keller, but the sort of “flying” she did was the same as when they let a kid into the cockpit.
Given her conditions, this is still absolutely an accomplishment and worth applauding. But to suggest that there is anything remotely unbelievable about it would require a fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of the situation
I think it’s worth mentioning that this was a publicity stunt. Keller wasn’t a pilot by trade.
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If the guy didn’t know who Emelia Earhart was, I doubt he knew of this conspiracy
That’s not how misinformation works. It preys upon the ignorant and fills them with lies before they can be filled with truths. All it takes is mild interest in one tiny slice of the right-wing nutjob conspiracy pie to be immediately pulled down the rabbit hole via algorithms on youtube, tiktok, even reddit.
Yeah that’s a good point. I hadn’t thought about that side of things
God, I wish I was a moron.
Is this real? There are really people that stupid out there, & things are so desperate women will sleep with them?
Reminds me of the sexy guy I met at the hotel pool the day before my breast cancer surgery and his only hesitancy was “Is it contagious?”
Jesus fucking CHRIST.
Lowkey them both saying that is so sexy to me
I’m also a gay guy and not a woman so idk if that’s a factor
Helen Keller flew a plane. She slept with both these men?!
This is basically Ron DeSantis and his pronunciation of “Thai” food. It’s gross. Don’t sleep with someone like that.
There are plenty of people that are genuinely this stupid and haven’t read a book or learned a single piece of new information since 5th grade.
In the current typhoon of men behaving badly in the US and the ongoing response and safety movements often advocating romantic abstinence, sometimes the observation is made that not every woman — even those pledged to the movement — is on the same page.
And then there’s the abstinence-until-marriage doctrine of white Christian nationalists, in which young women pledge to preserve their virginity until their one-and-only trad-minded husband puts a ring on it. (Young men might take a similar pledge, but they’re not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience. Double standards and inconsistent value systems and all that.) Yet, a conspicuous fraction of these (sometimes underage) young women overestimate their willpower, frequently contributing to the disproportionate rate of teen pregnancy in school districts that have committed to abstinence-only sex-ed.
Then there’s the women’s magazine I remember reading during the COVID-19 lockdown, that asked readers to write in their stories when they needed the d so badly they risked infection by a stranger to get it. There were a lot of confessional replies.
And all this is to say, sometimes a girl has needs.
Young men might take a similar pledge, but they’re not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience.
Y’know, I didn’t really think about it during the American Pie era, but I’m just gonna say it: if the boys are supposed to be getting experience, and the girls are supposed to not be, who are the boys having sex with?
The homies, don’t forget to kiss them good night after though
Your body, your choice.
Knew a lady that had four sons with her first husband. Wonderful woman in every way, the boys took after dad. Tall and handsome, dumber than chicken shit and always drink the bottle empty. Nice guys, but I swear they quit breathing while they are trying their shoes. Met someone who knew her in school, she was only sorting for looks and fun. Paying for that now.
ummm isn’t this from “The Most Unlovable Man in New York City” is in fact saying it’s hard for a guy out there?
Straight-washing ahh meme
Are you afraid to offend someone by typing the word ass?
It’s GenZ slang, originally black vernacular See here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ahh
I think I’m going to pretend it’s a Girl From Ipanema reference.
Oh we know…
I don’t get what’s wrong… Your past posts also use improper grammar. Are you just stuck up on the slang of your generation?
It’s weak and confirmist.
Never before in the history of generational slang has there been a consensus to self censor and there’s not even a good reason for it.
It’s as if your generation decided to do it because you could escape online moderation on other platforms by willingly choosing to censor yourself before someone else has the chance to which is… inherently pathetic.
It’s not self-censorship, it phonetic spelling.
People say stuff like ahh, shii, biatch, muggafugga in real life, and it’s still widely considered to be profane in context.
You just don’t like Black culture, and look down on Black people for their dialects.
Demanding dictionary spelling is about as language-conformist as you can get; you’re not even good at the mental gymnastics you’re trying to do.
I thought this was somebody’s type
to the person posting in the image: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE
I think they are called himbos
Asking what the Spanish word for tortilla is a valid question.
If you ordered a ‘tortilla’ in Spain, you would get an omelette, not a flatbread.
This comment section is like the bellcurve meme.
Tortilla is tortilla in Spanish. Only in Spain, were just a fraction of Spanish speakers live, tortilla is a potato dish.
Potatoes, omelettes, and flatbread? Eh, it’s still food.
Yeah, false friends
(loan words that don’t mean what they mean in the original language)are super common.Edit: The definition I gave is wrong, or rather too narrow. Wikipedia says this:
In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning.
“embarrassed” is not “embarazo”
Mixing those up would certainly be embarassing, though :D
Example from German: “sensible” is not “sensibel”
also “handy” and “Handy”
This is somewhat similar to my raw attraction to toxic, dangerous women. I once had a woman casually say mid-blowjob, “I could totally bite your cock off right now.” I giggled like Ralph Wiggum and then we had mind blowing sex.
It’s through the grace of seeking Dommes that I freed myself from my self destructive instinct towards dangerous and toxic women lol. Thankfully these days I’m married to a dangerous but completely nontoxic woman, because I really can’t handle the “picking fights out of boredom” type behavior
If you ever wrote a book I’d leave it on my coffee table as a conversation piece.
It could be a group project.
I also had a toxic partner and amazing sex stint. We called ourselves Sid and Nancy as a joke, but also because it was definitely heading towards both of us in a filthy hotel room (again), drunk and high (again), and someone accidentally dies (first time!). We both nicknamed each other the fucking safe word for society, and still missed the signs.
She went on to write a bunch of songs about it. I married a sort-of friend of the ex who is non-toxic, but also amazing with the sex. And who every time she sees a certain type of woman with trashy makeup on, says “oh, she looks like (name of ex)” as a rib to me.
Yeah. Good times.
I had a friend like you once, if he was into a woman there was guaranteed something dreadfully wrong with her. Like this was an actual conversation:
Friend (excited): I just started seeing her, she’s amazing! The best thing that’s ever happened to me!
Me: Dude, the last two girlfriends you said that about ended up in jail.
Friend: No it’s different this time, she’s cool! She’s a gamer, we like the same music, she’s super chill.
Me: Ok dude, I’m happy for you.
Two weeks later
Me: Dude, you ok? You look pretty down.
Friend: My girlfriend likes to get into throw down drunken brawls with strangers every weekend.
But this friend was also a weirdness magnet in general.
I had an Irish girlfriend like that. I met her through boxing which should’ve been a hint.
I don’t think I’ve ever dated anyone violent, with myself or others, thank god. They usually just want me to piss inside them and stuff.
Just stay away from the nose and ears and you’re golden.
Hah. Golden.
How about you mind your own garble garble garble business
That feel when no fight club gf
“If this is your first date, you have to fight.”
I just watched Fight Club again with my gf this morning.
Fight club crazy counts as crazy good in bed
I need a legit survey of women who haven’t thought about this at least once.
I’m convinced it’s half the appeal of oral sex. “I could be your last with a chomp and a twist, but you’re too horny to care”.
Just asked the missus, she said no (unfortunately)
Eh ring gags are a thing and that’s arousing for a lot of ppl too
I’m not sure I want to think about this too much.
People are weird. I bet there is a non-trivial amount of men who get their kicks from the thought “what if she bites down now”.
Hopefully all these people can find eachother! Romantically walk off into the sun.
I hope they’d wear sunscreen 😦
Probably not Benjamin
Suddenly feel like giving a sloppy toppy
Do not usw sunscreen as lube. I will not elaborate.
Given the Parker Solar Probe, I’m confident it’ll never happen.
To be fair to the last comment: The Pink Panther could be either a leopard or a jaguar, it isn’t clear which one.
Technically the pink panther could also be a diamond
Given that panthers aren’t a specific animal… What animal was the pink panther?
I am wrong in thinking that panther is just another name for the family of animals also called cougars, mountain lions, and pumas? Is this just an US thing?
Apparently that’s the north American usage of the word, TIL
The cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the greatest number of names, with over 40 in English alone.
Y’all need to calm down
We agree that should calm down, but we’re an unruly bunch to say the least.
I (male) have a twin sister.
I have been asked on more than one occasion if we are identical.
I have also been asked by someone if we are the same age.
One of you could be trans!
Well I know I’m not, so that’s pretty good foresight on my sisters behalf. Transitioning prior to birth, certainly solves a lot of problems.
My bet is a leopard, kind of how they can mutate to black panthers
I’m seeing a blue collar guy now and then and he doesn’t really have much to say.
mm-hm.
Rescuing the gene pool, one moron at a time
*Hard out there for a man.
The author is John Paul Brammer, from his piece “The Most Unlovable Man in New York City.”
Archived copy of source, because fuck giving that nazi bar Substack any clicks.
I was shaking my head at the Helen Keller - Amelia Earhart confusion until I double checked something.
I was getting Helen Keller confused with Anne Frank…
Is that you, Randall?
I was getting Helen Keller confused with Anne Frank…
wow- wanna fuck?
Himbo vibes
There’s no way that Anne Frank learned how to read.
I don’t think she could write
Amelia Earhart
Wasn’t she that maid that took things way too literally? ;)
You’re thinking of Amelia Bedelia.
Amelia Earhart was Paul Simon’s girlfriend. He wrote a song about her leaving, then coming back to him.
Thread gives fond memories of a pre-fediverse experience. I used to subcribe to a no-you’re-thinking-of community there; is there one on the fediverse? Related, is anyone collecting Lemmy/Piefed switcharoos in some community?
That was Cecelia. Pretty sure Amelia Earhart was King Lear’s daughter.
Nay. that is Cordelia. I’m positive Amelia Earhart was that movie about the French girl with the black hair and the crazy eyes in the movie poster.
Well no, you’re thinking of Amélie. Amelia Earhart played as “Two-Face” in 2008’s The Dark Knight.
You’re thinking of Don Draper, who doesn’t think of you at all
Get back to the Quick Stop.
You’re not the first.
I’m not sleeping with stupid. I don’t care what they look like. Gross. Such a turnoff.
Calling stupid people gross seems kind of ableist.
That’s fucking stupid.
No one cares even a single bit about disabled folks. Even so-called leftists. Honestly, especially them, it feels like so often to me.
That or they overcorrect.
On a pretty popular leftist Lemmy instance (Hexbear), you need to provide a trigger warning for “an ableist slur” if you’re posting a screenshot or quoting something that says the word “stupid”. Pretty sure you’re not allowed to say it in any other context (even for example calling the EU Kids Act “stupid”) or you’ll get banned for “ableism”.
Why are you assuming stupid people are disabled? Do you not see how this is toxic and ableist logic?
I’m not. I’m just saying that a lot of “invisibly” disabled people with (often undiagnosed) learning disabilities etc. are called stupid all the time, and reading something like that would really hurt them.
This is an anecdote, I understand that I’m “arguing” here from the heart and I’m not looking to win any legitimate debate, which would be impossible since I unexpectedly got dogpiled this hard while I was asleep before I had a chance to say this, but anyway:
I watched this small streamer for some time, and even became her moderator. She would just not understand a lot of things, at all, and she was completely unaware how some things could offend other people, until I explained them to her and she felt really bad for saying them while not knowing the real meaning. She cultivated this audience of reactionary people, because they thought she was one of them because she accidentally said a whole bunch of edgy things. But let me emphasize this: she never wanted to hurt anyone, she always felt bad for saying hurtful things on accident and always deeply apologized when she realized she was being hurtful.
Eventually, I had to quit, because the audience was too much for me. She was a great person, but I didn’t feel welcome due to her viewers and eventually stopped watching her. She felt really bad that I didn’t feel welcome, but there was really nothing that could be done without me banning like a third of her community. We stayed as friends for some time, and she opened up how sad she was about people calling her stupid all the time “because she wouldn’t understand some things” (in reality she had issues understanding basic things all the time).
When I saw that comment, I thought of her, already really upset by people calling her stupid, reading that and being like “stupid people are gross? and everyone calls me stupid… does this mean… :(”.
Not expecting to read this on a shit post. Thanks.
They’re just less able in that category
Intellect is absolutely a worthwhile trait in a breeding partner. It should be sexy to be smart.
Also there’s a difference between being handicapped and being stupid. Stupid is a choice. More of a choice than even being obese.
It will shock you but a lot of people have sex for pleasure, not for breeding.
Sure. But there’s a biological component to sexual attraction. Hence the more important part of what I said, intellect is supposed to be sexy.
Instead, anti-intellectualism is. Head-in-the-sand, willful ignorance and learned helplessness. Probably should be the biggest turn-offs, but here we are.
Stupid is a choice is as much as access to good education is a choice.
You can be stupid and educated, or vice versa. Education isn’t the same as stupidity. Some people went to harvard and are stupider than a lot of people I know who dropped out of uni.
And having all body parts is also a worthwhile trait in a partner. But that doesn’t mean you get a license to call them gross when they don’t.
Stupid is most definitely not a just choice.
This just in: insults are insulting
