1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
I'm talking like Ursula or the French spider from from James and the giant peach. Don't give me some conventionally attractive humans (though humans are totally allowed) please.
Personally mine was Goldie from Rock-a-doodle. I probably watched that movie 100 times on VHS as a kid.
Instead of yelling at all of us why don't you give a "real" example then?
Alright then, hear me out.
collapsed inline media
I am hearing you out... I have questions about the logistics but I am hearing you out.
Okay, but hear me out.
collapsed inline media
I will not be hearing you out on this one. You need Jesus.
Fine, I'll just quote from the blog hosting that photo (checks notes...catholicfootnotes.com, wtf?):
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/what-blobfish-really-look-like
Yea... I would definitely get more sources.
People posting blobfish always makes me sad. Poor things don't actually look like that...
It's like it aliens took humans into space and our corpses got all bloated from the lack of pressure and then the aliens laugh at our corpses and assume that's what humans always look like...
Lol, literally asked, what them lips do?
The Catholic Footnotes author, blobfish article progressing most-unexpectedly:
collapsed inline media
Poor depressurized deep sea fish. That thing is dead from being turned inside out from the vacuum pressure of being hauled out of the ocean. They don't look like that until we do that to 'em.
There have been a few in here, but the real “hear me out”s are Few and far between.
Someone mentioned Hexxus from Fern Gully (a tar monster voiced by Tim Curry), or the Hydra from Hercules.
I still think it holds true that men’s HMOs are conventionally attractive women (Jessica Rabbit, Tinkerbell, Gadget). Women’s HMOs are things like The Brave Little Toaster; the dog monster from The Thing; and the abstract concept of ennui.
I'm sure there's a psychologist that has something to say about the general trends between the genders on this topic.
Why are women more attracted to abstract things that may not resemble as man at all while most men require that they at least vaguely resemble a woman?
Who knows.
Because the patriarchy conditions men to be awful to women, and women to be nice to men. Women are more likely to develop resentment towards men and look elsewhere for their tastes.
Yikes. I guess that's certainly one way to view the world.
The fact that misogyny exists and has psychological consequences is a yikes?
I would argue instead that while patriarchy encourages people to overvalue oversexualized beauty in women, and does encourage men to be dipshits towards them, that would cause women to overvalue kindness and gentleness in their non threatening, masculine related fantasies. Maybe I'm overgeneralizing, but I am thinking of Bandit Heeler, or that fucking toothbrush
men's hearmeouts are conventionally attractive women. women's hearmeouts are unconventionally attractive enbys. enbys' hearmeouts are conventionally unattractive men
collapsed inline media
Yep. That’s pretty fucked up.