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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Spring is in the air, and someone presenting themselves as interested in fucking rationalist males has authored a piece about how said men can dress a bit better and maybe, just maybe, get laid:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vHtouRBd8JNm2tNLH/basic-principles-for-dressing-better

    as usual, the real comedy is in the comments

    • I dress like a schlub specifically to avoid advertising my sexual availability - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vHtouRBd8JNm2tNLH/basic-principles-for-dressing-better?commentId=RLdXtcStz9wdAvb4d
    • “The item that I currently wear that expresses the most about me is my Oura ring followed by barefoot shoes.” - strangely not the same as the commenter above
    • “When it comes to slim fit jeans I have the impression that fashion changed. Five years ago they were seen as great and now they don’t? Is that accurate?”
    • “Overall, I think it makes the most sense to go to the pareto frontier here. You can spend 300-400 total getting some nice looking earth tone button-ups, well-fitting pants that aren’t blue jeans, trim your beard, get regular haircuts from an actual salon, shower daily, and make sure you smell decent.”
    • “[…] when I look at the examples, what occurs to me is that dressing like the example would cause me to stick out and make it obvious to others I am making a special effort, and I’d rather not do that.”
    • "I was hoping for more fashion theory; the why. "
    • “It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”
    • “[…] it is far more important that whatever my spouse wears be a pleasant texture to put my face on, most buttondown material fails this criterion but linen passes” - actually this is just cute
    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      “It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”

      To be fair most of said outfits read as “rich arsehole” to me, which I do not find attractive. Yellow shirt guy I would suspect to be a white supremacist.

      As far as men’s fashion goes, I’ve seen much worse, though the bits I do like here feel fairly gay-coded to me so uh whatever. (I suspect those are the very same bits our Lesswrong Commenter is disapproving of.)

        • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
          9·
          2 days ago

          You know, “most of said outfits” was too harsh. I’m gonna rate the outfits now, I love rating outfits!!!

          2, 3 and 10 look like men you should run away from.

          6 looks like he’s cosplaying as 60s italian movie riviera pinterest europe cinecitta, which I instinctively distrust. And I don’t care what anyone says, I will simply not abide the sockless loafer.

          4, whatever. I do not want to talk him. We clearly have nothing in common.

          8 is awesome. Looks like an actual cool guy, lovely outfit, love the pose. He’s what 6 wants to be.

          7 is pretty cool too. Have to dock points for the very modelly pose, sadly, but still, pretty sick fit.

          5 I don’t really like but he’s a more confidently realised version of 6 so good for him. Not tryhard or heterosexual-looking enough for me to hate. Keep it up.

          9 I am sure I would absolutely love if I saw it on someone who didn’t look like they were fresh out the male model factory. Bonus points for uncreased trousers.

          And finally 1 is obviously awesome but like. You cannot use this as an outfit recommendation. That’s just irresponsible. First the guy is buff as fuck and that is a necessary part of the outfit. It’s all about that mad silhouette. Second, I mean. This is pretty eccentric right. If you saw everyone dressing like this it would just be dumb. You cannot expect those poor lesswrongs to understand this.

          • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
            6·
            2 days ago

            3 and 10 look like the overconfident, amateurish poser villains whom Dr. Lecter kills by the end of the episode.

          • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            Well now you’ve made me look at the image too long, too.

            #1’s belt probably wraps twice around that waistline, I’d say photoshop/AI but there’s that 1/3 of the shirt hanging off to the right with nothing to fill it so yeah, and also Phil Davis1 exists.

            #10 is aspiring to be the jock from scooby doo and I don’t think that jacket can actually close, similarly to #1 the whole thing probably only works for very specific poses and angles.

            #6 looks like he runs a leopard print handbag delivery service, #4 is horny youth pastor in his aunt’s kitchen, 7-9 look comfy but contrived, #5 really wants you to know he’s wearing a possibly expensive wife beater under that shirt and 2 & 3 are all sorts of dodgy, esp. #3 who looks like a tourist trap gift shop keeper whose face is noticeably untanned because he has to hide it a lot for undisclosed reasons.

            #2 mostly has a raging case of resting netflix true crime serial killer face syndrome.

            I get that the point probably was to only show the broad strokes of how it should look if you’re making an effort, but whatever.

            1

            Phil Davis

          • aio@awful.systemsEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

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    • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      If, like some of my male housemates you object on principle to the concept of a bag

      then you need to watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade again. From there, you can graduate to the Tom Holland “Umbrella” video, which is clinically proven to make cis het women ovulate.

      • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        And also, like, laptop bags exist? They come in basic black. You can use them for books, emergency chocolate, manila envelopes stuffed with students’ homework that you need to grade… I bought one at a camping-goods store, and it’s lasted about 20 years.