See, when Gen-Z say we want less sex and awkward romance in movies, this is what we mean.
I’m older than Gen-Z but I agree. This sounds like it could be a really wholesome movie plot
Aces be like:
THIS 👏 IS 👏 WHAT 👏 WE’VE 👏 BEEN 👏 SAYING
I’m asexual and I often have friend fantasies, where the interactions are very sweet and fun like in this story, no crushes, romance or sexual tension involved. This story makes me happy and I don’t care whatsoever if it actually happened or not.
So I was a nerd, nothing special literally nondescript nerd, completely inoffensive. But I had the wild hair and glasses, braces acne, literally just pick a feature that you could make fun of, and I had it. However, I was completely oblivious. I had home room with this giant tank of a teddy bear, the kid who showed up freshman year and had the basketball coach and football coach arguing over who could recruit this dude on size alone.
Anyhow, we always chatted and it turned out we had similar tastes in books and often paired on projects. I mentioned how hard it was to walk in the hallways due to how short I was and always getting knocked into lockers and such. I figured I was clumsy and easy to overlook. After a few months I figured I got better at walking through the halls and avoiding folks, and I stopped having so many bruises.
Was not until senior year that I found out, he has gone to the whole football team and told them I was dense AF and to keep an eye out for me. Turns out I had been targeted for bullying and this one group had been shoving me into lockers trying to hurt me. Football team figured it out and someone always made sure they were on the same route between classes and ran interference. Like him and four or five football bros just took on the job of big brothers. They all decided not to tell me because better to not worry me. I always wondered why our football bros were so nice and always knew my name.
That ending killed me
Okay – that was all so sweet, and so adorable, and then the last line just made me burst out laughing :)
I have a very fond memory of high school of sitting in class and being given shit by a couple of football players and then another one of them, who they definitely looked up to, but everyone else thought was kind of stupid, said “hey, I like [my real name]. Leave him alone.” He’d never really even talked to me before, but we were friends after that. I haven’t talked to him in years, but he was a nice guy and smarter than he seemed.
I had a similar experience. I was openly gay in high school. Most people had no real issue with me, which blew my mind, but the sporty types were a bit put off. Probably unsurprisingly. One of 'em randomly came up to me during lunch period and started asking for advice on his hair and shirt because he had a date later that night. Helped him out. He gave me a hug. None of the jocky dudes gave a shit after that.
As idiotic as the whole ‘alpha male’ shit is, there is a tiny modicum of truth somewhere in there when it comes to social hierarchy with humans and decisions made by the more popular types. He was a bro.
Nice dick too.
In my case, I was a theater kid who primarily played comedy parts, which I was very good at. And he saw one of the plays and I made him laugh, which made him like me.
There’s a reason jesters exist. A good sense of humor can help you more than kevlar in most circumstances.
Except to other jesters. I did standup for a few years, and you will never meet a more bitter group of backstabbing assholes than mid-level comedians who are mostly doing a regional circuit. They steal from each other and badmouth each other all the time. There are nice people in the field, but not that many, at least on that level. It’s why I gave it up. I don’t want to be around that sort of negative energy, especially not when you’re supposed to be making people happy.
As a comic, yup. The insane thing is that low level comics often aren’t like that but once you get some taste of the audience they just get fucking blood thirsty. Toronto is bad for it too because of how many comedians flock here to get a start. I was already living here when I decided so while struggling, it wasn’t struggling for the same reason so people got whiny as hell at that too. Meanwhile I’m autistic and do it in spite of the audience, not particularly for them so I’ve just never gotten that. I’ve even had people here on Lemmy accuse me of just wanting to be famous. Bruh. I like making people happy. Not for the attention or anything. Making people happy makes me feel less shitty. How the hell does being a dick make them feel better?
Agree with what you said. There’s no point in being around that type of constant negativistic energy in general, much less in comedy.
This is “Ten Things I hate about you”, the next generation.
I love him. I hope he also turns out to be bisexual because I want a shot.
That’s wholesome
Can anyone explain the last line to me? The sneezing and smacking part. Judging from some other comments, I think it’s supposed to be a punchline, but I don’t really get it.
Nope, just a jock being clumsy and a dope.
Ya, it’s more a “kinda ruined the moment but in a funny way”
Ah, I see. Thanks.
This is so awesome. I love it.
How sweet
You stole this from /r/that_happenned
There’s a lot of different places this could have been taken from yo.
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Yeah turns out maybe you shouldn’t be a judgmental piece of shit, just like you judged jock dude bro to be that way …
There is a saying: men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.
Being an out-of-the-closet lesbian increases the risk of attack.
So it’s understandable they reacted that way. Also sad, because the world really shouldn’t be that way. But it is.
The majority of people being killed are men. 78.7% worldwide according to the UN of murder victims are men. This doesn’t make any sense. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender
My great-uncle once said, ‘figures don’t lie, but liars can sure figure’. Trying to change the narrative from killers to victims in an effort to try and make my statement look untrue is a bad-faith argument.
Try ‘serial killer statistics by gender instead’. Most of those men are being killed by other men.
Yes that’s a possibility. It’s also probable that a lower percentage of women serial killers are caught because of the expectation that women are not the killers. Regardless women are not the primary target.
Women can’t even be prosecuted for other violent crimes like rape.
Okay. Let me try this again, slower. With fewer words.
Most. Women. Are. Killed. By. Men.
Most. People. Murdered. Are. Men.
Police. And. Courts. Are. Biased. Against. Men.
Being a condescending arsehole isn’t gonna get you anywhere mate.
And all that is done to men mostly by other men. Hence she was right to be nervous around a man.
I hate to be that guy but women can kill people. There have even been women serial killers. It’s a stereotype that only men are dangerous. It leads to women not being prosecuted for violent crimes like rape and murder. In countries like mine women can’t technically even rape someone.
As with many things, known can be a loaded word.
First of all, the large amount of known serial killers are presumably those that were actually caught, but what about those that weren’t? What percentage of killers might be left uncaught simply because in other cases, the focus was on males as suspects?
It’s kinda like saying “the vast number of cases where police found drugs during a search were of race X”… but if they’re searching “race X” at a 5-1 ratio then yeah that stat is skewed by bias.
For every Dahmer we catch, a Lucy Letby might be running amok because we are biased towards believing that such killers belong to a particular demographic.
Yeah I think this is a much more likely explanation than the idea that there are 10x more male murderers than female ones. I can understand some differences due to socilisation, but not that much.
Historically too, physical capabilities and social circumstances may have tended to have female killers use methods such as poisons etc rather than more blatant physical attacks etc. Medical forensic technology was also less advanced, and food safety less rigorous.
If a bunch of people died of a “bad batch” of food or a lover fell down the stairs, drowned etc after too much drink, what would the chances of an in depth-investigation in comparison to say somebody found beaten, strangled, or stabbed?
It’s easy to not find something that you’re not looking for, and easy to not be looking for it if you start with a biased assumption.
That said, this is a rather dark turn from the more wholesome content of the original post. I very much enjoyed the story as an example of checking one’s bias and not assuming the worst of people. One should be careful, but being too much so means missed opportunities for what may end up becoming a beautiful friendship like we’ve seen here. Both individuals sound like the types of friends I wish I’d had when younger, and the types of adults I’d love to sit and enjoy a meal with.
How many men are murdered vs women? Women are not even the primary target of murder. 78.7% of murder victims worldwide are men. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender
And yet most women who are murdered are murdered by men.
Do you have any statistics on this?
