Me When I'm In A Being A Nuisance Under The Illogical Idea That What I'm Doing Is Productive Competition

Me when I'm in a being a nuisance under the illogical idea that what I'm doing is productive competition and my opponent is a person who replies to all 125 Instagram comments passive aggressively correcting people's pronouns as if this is YouTube and they can retroactively edit them, as if new commenters are going to look at their replies before commenting, and as if making their own stand-alone comment wouldn't be more effective in informing people.

How I feel logging into Instagram once every 7 days just to comment nice things on the posts of people I went to high school with 3 years ago:

After learning that TruTV has canceled Tacoma F.D. and is not renewing it for a 5th season, I would like to say that I think it would've been perfect, and it's such a missed opportunity that they never had a fart contest scene in the show's running.

I will say I'm glad that they had every main male cast member fart at least once, but given how much they reference and take pride in their constant flatulence, it would've made so much sense for the sendoff to have been them all putting their skills to the test for the last time.

Say, for instance, by having some sort of contest like in the first season, where they all compete to win the Fart Jar, but this time there's a montage where they all go around in a circle for an extended period of time all emptying their tanks until the last person has nothing left.

This could've also been a great way for them to do the standard trope of showing a girl's fart be louder and more impressive than all the guys by having Lucy be the final fart when all the guys have finished, much to all of their shock.

Prefacing this by saying that I don't know if this is going to make sense, and there's a reasonable chance this is going to sound weird and off-putting, so I'll attempt to explain it as best possible.

From the time that people around me starting having it up until now, there's something that's so captivating about imaging the sex lives of people I know.

Not because I'm necessarily turned on by the surface level specifics of what they do, or how they look in the bedroom bare, but rather because of how one's sexual experiences seem to be such a separate and private part of one's life, and yet they contribute so much to the overall infinite complexity of the human experience.

Fetishes and kinks very quickly come to mind when I entertain such thoughts, especially the sentiment towards not kinkshaming.

Much like you might wonder what someone isn't saying when they talk to you depending on how close you are, you might also ponder what "does it for them" when there's no need to conceal anything, and how this hidden persona potentially affects their daily lives.

I feel as though these hypothetical imaginings are possibly the reason why so many queer people often jokingly (but sometimes not-so jokingly) make claims that seemingly straight passing men and women like to get pegged, or like to "munch box" respectively.

As humans, we seek community and relatability, and fantasizing about the private lives of others, even if based in complete fiction, is a way to not feel so trapped in our own existence.

Digital Nuance, Public Discourse, and Public Approval: The Steady Decline of "Having a Dialogue"

Being on the internet as someone who operates from a place of nuance and complexity as opposed to simplistic and impulsive knee-jerk reactions feels like being a masochist because there's so much you could say but it would take too long to write out and mostly fall on deaf ears.

It also doesn't help that although there are many people out there that are happy to have these complex discussions, you're much less likely to find people who are capable of doing so in a way that doesn't convey the idea that the only perspective they're open to is theirs.

This mentality is not just aggravating to deal with as someone who wants to contribute to these discussions, but actively drives people away from having them, which is incredibly counterintuitive given how much stress and importance is constantly placed on speaking on issues.

This, if anything, calls into question why stress is even placed on having discussions about any topic. If there's supposedly only one right view and thus solution to an issue, why even start a dialogue in the first place? To talk in circles? Unless, they're not that simple...

It's a rare occurrence, but my faith in humanity is slightly restored whenever I see what could've easily turned into a heated argument about a topic beautifully and amicably resolve itself with each party respecting each others views without attacking them.

Though, I feel like the concept of "ratioing" people is what holds us back from these occurrences happening. I can't help but feel that people on the internet are less concerned about actually defending their argument, and more about whether other people will back it up.

Saying this, I can already hear people defending ratioing because of how it supposedly "puts people in their place" and makes them feel shame for what is mostly agreed to be the morally or intellectually incorrect way of analyzing a topic.

Again though, why should the focus of having an opinion be attempting to "prove" that it's the so-called "right" one through public approval which is also nothing more than simply a larger group of people's opinions?

Me when I'm in a "thinking being passive aggressive is a personality trait" competition and my opponent is a 16-22 y/o white girl who does e-girl adjacent makeup, and condescendingly uses the words "babes", "bestie", "hope this helps!" and the ":)" emoji as if she's the "edgier" equivalent of a stereotypically mean girl from a Disney Channel show.