This kind of thinking can be used to invalidate any hobby that you're not personally into. I used to think like this and honestly I was a major asshole because of it.
"People travelling is just attention seeking, going to places where millions have already gone just to get a few pictures while emitting a bizarre amount of CO2. "
"Festivals? Why travel all that way and cause all the noise pollution (and pollution in general) just to see some dude press play on a CDJ and listen to mediocre quality music that you could just listen to at home. "
"Board games? Why waste all those resources and all that money on something that could just be a computer program? Save the money and give it to poor people instead."
"Fashion? Biggest nonsense there is. Just make clothes that fit well and are durable. We can just stop this pretentious rat race and save a lot of resources. Would also help with body positivity if the examples we see aren't over edited photos of anorexic models with otherwise perfect features in ridiculously expensive clothes."
And I could keep going. You can reduce anything people care about to a waste of time, money, and resources that could be spent elsewhere. We're not on this planet to be the most efficient and selfless versions of ourselves, we're allowed to just enjoy things even if they seem a bit wasteful and ridiculous to others. That doesn't mean that we should never think about the impact on the environment and other people when we do something, but it's a balance. And just because we don't like doesn't mean that it can't be important to someone else.
I'm sure that to some people their Christmas decorations are the biggest happening of their year. They'll think of what to do the entire year and nothing in the world will fill them with more bliss than seeing their house decorated the way they envisioned it.
Ru Paul, please do a Christmas Lights special and judge the houses in the exact same way while the whitebread family with their two and a half kids stand there on the lawn grimacing at the camera.
Kinda, but both are performative maximalism done within a subcultural framework done as both a means to express identity and to have an opportunity to be as flashy and showy as they'd like. The people who go all out for Halloween are a different variant of it.
22 Comments
s@piefed.world · 67 pts · 201d
Yeah that really does increase the houses’ wind resistance
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 15 pts · 201d
Imagine not having an aerodynamic house. 0/10
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 200d
I mean, that's kinda what makes storms scary...
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 201d
How can you not understand drag?
Add big engine
Get from start to finish fast
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 26 pts · 201d
I don't understand either, but understanding isn't a requisite for respect.
SARGE@startrek.website · 0 pts · 201d
gerryflap@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 200d
This kind of thinking can be used to invalidate any hobby that you're not personally into. I used to think like this and honestly I was a major asshole because of it.
"People travelling is just attention seeking, going to places where millions have already gone just to get a few pictures while emitting a bizarre amount of CO2. "
"Festivals? Why travel all that way and cause all the noise pollution (and pollution in general) just to see some dude press play on a CDJ and listen to mediocre quality music that you could just listen to at home. "
"Board games? Why waste all those resources and all that money on something that could just be a computer program? Save the money and give it to poor people instead."
"Fashion? Biggest nonsense there is. Just make clothes that fit well and are durable. We can just stop this pretentious rat race and save a lot of resources. Would also help with body positivity if the examples we see aren't over edited photos of anorexic models with otherwise perfect features in ridiculously expensive clothes."
And I could keep going. You can reduce anything people care about to a waste of time, money, and resources that could be spent elsewhere. We're not on this planet to be the most efficient and selfless versions of ourselves, we're allowed to just enjoy things even if they seem a bit wasteful and ridiculous to others. That doesn't mean that we should never think about the impact on the environment and other people when we do something, but it's a balance. And just because we don't like doesn't mean that it can't be important to someone else.
I'm sure that to some people their Christmas decorations are the biggest happening of their year. They'll think of what to do the entire year and nothing in the world will fill them with more bliss than seeing their house decorated the way they envisioned it.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 201d
Ru Paul, please do a Christmas Lights special and judge the houses in the exact same way while the whitebread family with their two and a half kids stand there on the lawn grimacing at the camera.
Meron35@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
Shannel should be the guest judge
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 201d
Decent chance it's not the same specific folks.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 201d
Slightly different things, no?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 201d
Kinda, but both are performative maximalism done within a subcultural framework done as both a means to express identity and to have an opportunity to be as flashy and showy as they'd like. The people who go all out for Halloween are a different variant of it.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 200d
But that applies to many things so calling it drag, to classify the whole group, doesn't really make sense.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 201d
I understand drag.
Drag wants to horde gold and sleep in a mountain. Same as me. 🤷♂️
Hupf@feddit.org · 3 pts · 201d
Drag?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 200d
The difference here is that drag doesn't cause nearly as much light pollution.
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 200d
For a second I thought this said "Subaru people" and my first thought was "But we're all lesbians."
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 201d
I don't like talent shows
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 201d
One is dressing like a woman and the other is dressing like a Vegas hooker.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 8 pts · 201d
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 201d
Cross-dressing is usually part of it, but not required. It's also not limited to dressing as a woman.
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social · 2 pts · 200d
What if I despise both and think both are equally Chernobyl levels of eye sores?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 199d
Either learn to accept them or suffer. Chernobyl is pretty btw, very few people who decorate their houses there.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 200d
Shit, can't find the Daria ms Kewpie clip.