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Oct 25, 2013 11:19 AM
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StrangeSavant
Just girly things seems offensive to women..
EvenBetterCool
justgrislythings
TheDrySideOfThePenny
Well this is kind of unfair, you can always make someone's problems look like nothing if you compare them to something even worse.
TheDrySideOfThePenny
Downvoted by a narrow mind.
SHAUNoftheSPACEDfuZZ
Other issues shouldn't be demeaned because there is a bigger picture. I know times can be harder, but problems are problems.
elips
Yeah, girls are stupid! Only men who've been to war have valid human experiences!
fernsandfrogs
I don't think that knowledge of human suffering and enjoyment of simple things in daily life are mutually exclusive.
JoeChill
Concepts are too often flippantly considered.
heterocera
Another thank you.
jordanwilliam23
shits more enjoyable when its black and white
DeathBySnooSnoo
Agreed TO THE MAX.
DarlingCruella
THANK YOU
LOLgoroth
Taking the justgirlythings shaming to a whole new level of feels.
tdegenaro
this post is SUCH bullshit I hate the girlythings crap but you cant pair it up with war images to criticize it that's totally out of context
TROLOLstevenswingler
Damn the last one, thats some serious shit
MaxIn
Damn the second to last one :(
ScienceDiscoverer
Conclusion: Nothing is happening for a reason...
MittensPlease
I don't think there's anything wrong with being a happy, teenage girl when you are a teenage girl. Let them have their fake problems.
AngelxGutierrez
I have the feels again :(
BloomingtonBadger
This is off putting
GandalfTheUltraViolet
The realising it's time to move on one... goddamn, man...
BassTapir
Just because someone breaks their leg doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when I stub my toe.
ericavee
ok, "justgirlythings" may be a little dumb, but this is dumber...negating things for the sake of negation.
ReconJoe
I believe, most of us served with the hope that we could each do our own small part, to insure you the freedom to enjoy "justgirlythings"
JustSayingYouHaventSeenMeAndBatmanInTheSameRoomBefore
As a fellow veteran, this. The few sacrifice so the many can enjoy a better life, even if that includes "trivial" things.
ReconJoe
I want my daughter to enjoy "justgirlythings"
SharkBaitWhoooHaaaaHaaaa
When you trivialize other's emotions, you trivialize what you compare them against too. Different worlds. Everyone is entitled to Feel.
saywhaaaa
How does this voice of reason not have more upvotes?
danvolodar
Different worlds, sure.
NikolaTeslaWasCool
I respectfully disagree, in that to ignore the horror of the world around you and carry on without acknowledging darkness, cheapens the (1)
NikolaTeslaWasCool
human experience as a whole. A day can be pleasant, but knowing darkness makes the sun all the brighter, metaphorically speaking.
SharkBaitWhoooHaaaaHaaaa
To tell someone who doesnt know better that their feelings are dumb or stupid bc of other horrors in the world they don't know is wrong
SharkBaitWhoooHaaaaHaaaa
Also, no one is saying to ignore the world around you. But that is super condescending and entitled to say some ppl are not allowed to FEEL.
NikolaTeslaWasCool
I never said that. I said that it's important to experience a wide range of emotions, so the smaller ones aren't so exaggerated. Scope, see?
SharkBaitWhoooHaaaaHaaaa
It is important to experience the world around you. But again, telling someone their pain or sadness is trivial and meaningless is cruel
IDontReadHoroscopes
sensible comment award
thoughthungry
This is complete bullshit. Why do these get so much shaming just for expressing stuff people (no coincidence that it's women) like to do?
WhatzitTooya
Guess someone is sick of this generation instagram and their shallow behavior.
EMPRUH
This isn't making a statement so much as it is presenting thought provoking contrast. What you think of it is your business.
mkimitch
Perhaps it's not shaming, and instead a method for reminding people to count their blessings. Why do you have to be so negative?
AceOfShovels
"Wanting to own lots of jewelry." What about that doesn't scream shallow, self absorbed, entitled brat?
biffoboffo
Thank you for writing this.
Shoura
I'm with you. "I like seeing old friends" = you're selfish and should feel bad, because war veterans! What?
RapidZigs
I liked it, i'm tired of hearing people say "fuck my life" when the kind of smoothie they want is sold-out.
pasthelod
Missing friends (eg because family moved to other state) might actually be a legitimate cause for bad mood, just as war, but fuck smoothies.
Sevadus
It's a contrast. Some emo teenage girl who has "real high school problems" versus 16 year old boys who were scared shitless on the beaches
Sevadus
of Normandy, Who actually HAD real problems. Like not getting his FUCKING FACE BLOWN OFF. It shows the SHALLOWness behind these stupid
Sevadus
"Justgirlythings" posters from Tumblr,Instagram
takingthehobbitstoisengard
I don't like justgirlythings but all I see in these posts is "fuck teenage girls". They're just figuring things out same as everyone.
boa249
This isn't bullshit. It's a demonstration that some people have sacrificed everything, or had everything taken from them. I consider it a
boa249
call to live your life as you see fit. Don't be ashamed of the relatively carefree life paid for by the blood of these people.
ibsulbogi
thank you for this perfect comment
piggypiglet
Perhaps it's bullshit when men are told they have "male privilege" and how "women are oppressed"? A single post for men and you're butthurt?
ghostsdesu
What the fuck are you even talking about? I don't think you read this post.
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connerfusion
for some context, these pictures actually originate from 4chan, and generally get posted in response to rants about white/male privilege
piggypiglet
I don't mean boobs, I mean a post pointing out what men have been through, not their love of women (you know, the ones they "oppress" n all)
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piggypiglet
By "normal people" you mean women's lives, which is what you're really upset about.
fiftypatoots
Are the feelings of a veteran negated because he's not in an North Korean prison camp being tortured to death?
bitchcraft
1940's kids will understand
iMayOrMayNotBeOprah
I dont think the soldiers were 10 years old.
WhiskeyBottle
More like 1920s and 1930s
LandOTenThousandBadSportsTeams
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BGgn7J3CIAAVaT7.jpg
Messarius
Hang on tight, we're going on a feels trip.
MetalMil
Giving people real perspective. Risky business.
localvagrant
I've never seen these "girlythings" pictures without an accompanying image destroying the original message with a counterexample.
LordofSadFace
yeah...now if you excuse me, im just taking this note with hissyfit direction and my rifle
icaarius
You have 420 points. I cannot upvote you yet.
MetalMil
I can upvote you.
Thekingofbeans
What real perspective? Because someone somewhere has it worse their emotions aren't legitimate? No one wins in this pissing contest
DasOgre
Ogre didn't take it as saying others have it worse, Ogre take it as saying people take far too much for granted. Ogre despise young gen
EspritDeLescalier
Rare to see the logical fallacy exposed these <3
jsktrogdor
It does mean their emotions arent legitimate. It means they're being vapid and shallow assholes.
Thekingofbeans
Really? Being sad because you miss someone is vapid and shallow because soldiers die?
jsktrogdor
Yes, quit fucking wallowing in self pity you selfish asshole.
Sevadus
It's making fun of the COMPLETE shallowness of teenage girls who have "Real problems" that "Matter" in "High school" Point is? you grow up
Thekingofbeans
That doesn't mean their feelings don't matter. "You can't feel sad that you miss someone! Soldiers die!"
RegencySloth
It's more a criticism of the framing of their emotions, but, understanding your emotions in a broader perspective of them is important.
Tonberryc
I agree with the logic, but "burning things that don't mean anything to you" is selfish and petty. Mock away on that one.
Thekingofbeans
Well... it's really just a metaphor for letting go of the past. I don't think it's actually encouraging arson.
Tonberryc
Arson has nothing to do with it. That whole phrase is poorly presented and implies several meanings which are all negative to someone else.
Thekingofbeans
that's why it's called a metaphor. It has a very specific scope of connotation
ScramblesTD
The way I'm interpreting it is that "justgirlythings" is taking concepts so common and vague and claiming their "just girly things". This /1
ScramblesTD
2/ provides a nice example of how it's not "just girly things" and can be applied to a myriad of situations. It's taking advantage of
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/3 that vagueness and using it to show a reality that people on that blog may not be aware of.
Thekingofbeans
That's usually the case, and they're usually funny. This case is comparing apples and oranges to make it seem like they're meaningless
Kyte314
Their emotions are legitimate,I suppose,but the WW2 guy's are much more legitimate,and the former makes it look like they're more important.
Thekingofbeans
WW2 guys aren't sad. That's emotionally traumatic. That's like saying breaking your wrist doesn't hurt because you weren't shot.
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
Being shot hurts a fuck ton more.
Kyte314
That's not really what I said, but...
Kyte314
Would you rather have someone complain about their broken wrist and get internet-famous while no one cares about someone who got shot?
Thekingofbeans
This isnt saying people should pay more attention to soldiers. This is saying the emotions portrayed in "just girl things" posts dont matter
MetalMil
Having perspective is exactly the idea of not having too much emotion for unimportant matters in life but understanding the scale of life.
Thekingofbeans
So you'd teenage girls to the same standards as soldiers? Furthermore, someone having it worse is no reason not to be sad.
MetalMil
Did I say it is? I'm talking about perspective. It's a reason to be happy. To understand how privileged you are. Don't twist my words.
Thekingofbeans
But this post is entirely based on comparing the two in order to make the former look meaningless. Emotions are subjective and involuntary.
SorenTheImgurian
That was very well done. Excuse me while I go to watch Band of Brothers again, just for the feels.
punchy22
To any military or vets that might be on imgur, Thank you.
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Bangledesh
This.
SgtKnux
We do it for you. Your gratefulness is my motivation. -SSgt, USAF
Affray
Not to make light, but can you imagine a WWII veteran coming to Imgur. That would be the fastest way to lose any hope he may have had for us
IamMelonLordeYaYaYa
Or gain all his lost hope back. Good things happen here, too.
Affray
He would probably just assume that we value cats and redheads as much as our freedom, shake his head, and
Affray
get his grandkids to help turn off the computer
chiquita0bananners
Why is it that everytime one of these "just girly things" pictures comes up, it's always mocked? Yes, we all understand that there are (1/?)
Kyte314
Because they feel it's neccasary to waste data space sharing with everyone how much of a first-world frivilous piece of filth they are.
darfnader
Because everything about "just girly things" are vapid, facile or just plain repugnant. That includes the phrase "just girly things".
StrayLilCat
Yet what is wrong with any of the listed things above? There is nothing vapid about enjoying warm weather, missing friends, or feeling alone
darfnader
For each pair @hissyfit makes a point ie: "Feeling... alone" vs a soldier in a trench filled with the corpses of his unit... you see now?
StrayLilCat
This whole photoset are false equivalencies aimed at making just girly things look vapid. Get your head out of your ass and damn this is old
darfnader
Jesus christ... that is what I was trying to explain to you... fucking internet.
chiquita0bananners
bigger, more important things out there than wanting to own a lot of jewelry or go to the beach with friends, but doing this is just (2/?)
chiquita0bananners
furthering the mindset that anything teen girls are interested in is dumb and deserves to be made fun of, which is ridiculous. (3/3)
Corrodias
Are you implying that teen girls are interested in arson, genocide, slavery, and war? Hmm. They're more interesting than i thought.
maximsk
It probably has to do with making fun of these pictures' apparent tendency to make a big deal out of things that aren't. That'd be my guess.
SharkBaitWhoooHaaaaHaaaa
I don't really see the originals as making a big deal of things, tho. They're stating emotions everyone feels, no matter their circumstance
maximsk
Going by the reactions people have, they're probably seen as trite. I'm not sure how valid that is. Doesn't matter, really, I s'pose.
Kyte314
"Stating emotions everyone feels." Everyone that lives in a first-world society. But not everyone.
durkedur
The "missing your old friends" hit me right in the feels.
socialistrantings
Old man is pissed off his ride is late.
mrmcspicy
I think the story was he that he was a Soviet soldier. He'd meet his comrades there every year or so but that year he was the only one left
CobaltCannon
the everything happens for a reason one is a pretty fucked up take on things.
RunicDragons
The "Realizing it's time to move on" moved me. :s
SHOWMEWHATYOUVEGOT
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41caDQc%2BEXL.jpg
ajizzle
the visiting the beach one was new and striking to me
Goodwolf
Me and you both.
fallenskater21
that is the most painful one by far
Makimakithefirst
I'd say the "Visiting the beach" was the hardest hitting for me, thinking about watching so many of your friends die.
whitetiger379
My grandfather, who died last week, was with his platoon in some sort of building/bunker and was sent to go fetch something. The (1/?)
whitetiger379
Whole building exploded and he had to find a new squad to join up with. He was an engineer before the war stationed in Iceland. (2/3)
whitetiger379
He was never supposed to see combat.
maximinusthrax1
That one gets me every time...
lizzycakes
Do you... Do you think the flowers he's holding were for his squad mates? This picture is beautiful, if tragic.
happyhippo77
got goosebumps all over on that one
jennymad
It nearly made me cry... wait... it did. It made me cry.
EnnuiOkapi
me.. right now.... http://imgur.com/c83FrAq damnit
ubermetallic
same for me man, same for me.
wildcanukidan
Chokin' back the feels...
Dsharppe
I thought the .. 'feeling like you're all alone' one was a gut punch.
RULESOFNATURE
realizing its time to move on
damspam
If it makes you feel any better, all the people around him are asleep. He's just keeping watch while everyone else catches some Z's.
Wesugi
but he wasn't all alone, who took the picture?
Wesugi
and also the lower guy looks much like he's sleeping.
thebrick87
Realizing it's time to move on for me.
PhilmacFLy
Same here
Pimsen
Both on my part
MCSPIKE
same for me
Kyte314
All of these hit me right in the feels...
NeonRitari
First I thought it was Eric Lassard from Police Academy, but then I noticed expression on his face. Then it hitted right in the feels.
Boerjang
thank you for a little bit of perspective
TheFilesAreINSIDETheComputer
and depression
FreckleCharms
I think it's good to have perspective but also it's ok to want to go to a beach w/ your friend. As long as you don't take it for granted.
chemistrydoc
So because of D-day people aren't supposed to enjoy a day at the beach with a friend? I see the point...but it is kind of silly.
vlepun
No, they should enjoy it more. Keep in mind what the price has - and always will be(en) for your freedom. Act accordingly.
theoldlickaroo
Totally agree, are people supposed to feel guilty because they haven't endured terrible suffering or what?
FollowRafiki
No, but I guess the point could be not to take everything you have for granted? Idk
theoldlickaroo
Hahaha... *too
FollowRafiki
too*? where?
theoldlickaroo
Meh, there's no need to rip the joy out of life like that. I think it kind of trivialises the serious images by using them in that way woo.
dyewithkool
Yeah, but it's so damn easy to forget how fortunate we are. It's not ripping the joy out. It's letting us see how joyful we should be.
LegendOfTheCrack
No . You should enjoy whatever you like . But the majority of these girly things are superficial bullshit . And this comparisson exposes it.
takingthehobbitstoisengard
Come on, like we needed this comparison to expose that. This is just facetious and (to my mind) disrespectful.
LegendOfTheCrack
Time to move on " Oh sweetie you broke up with your BF . having a hard time moving on? " Tell that to the vet that saw 10 of his friends die
TheDerpFace
'Yeah, you're not allowed to be upset because someone has it worse.'
ScienceDiscoverer
You can't into time travel and living others with the help of your mind?
chemistrydoc
Da fuq did you just say?
ScienceDiscoverer
It's my very philosophical concept)
Kyte314
No...but they shouldn't act like they're more important.
takingthehobbitstoisengard
How are they acting like they're more important? They're creating relatable graphics for themselves and their friends.
gitarius
As an historian, thanks
mkimitch
As a Grammar Nazi, you're not welcome.
gitarius
As a Norwegian, your language is mine to rape as I see fit!
AmericaIsWinning
As a pudding cup, you're welcomev
dailybuttersnack
Least favourite saying: "Everything happens for a reason." No. It. Doesn't.
tentsie
And obviously it's just a girly thing ._.
darfnader
Sometimes that reason is "you engaged in douchey behavior", and now you are facing the consequences. Suck it up.
mkimitch
Yes it does, it's just not always a reason you'd prefer.
phlat6
When you finally figure out the meaning behind some terrible event, it will lose it's power to bring you down.
knockoutn336
yes it does. cause and effect
knockoutn336
well, until you get to the quantum level at least
Kyte314
Whoa, hold your horses. I don
Kyte314
(dammit, hit the enter key...) 't think Imgur can handle talking about things that actually require intelligence.
GeorgeSteinbrenner
What about chaos theory?
knockoutn336
chaos theory is deterministic - cause and effect
dailybuttersnack
That made me laugh! Yes, exactly. I wish that's what people meant when they said it!!
Kyte314
...what do they mean if it's not that?
dailybuttersnack
That we should feel some solace that the horrible thing that just happened is part of God's plan + He wouldn't make us suffer for no reason
dailybuttersnack
It may console some, but it can also be uninterntionally flippant and in some cases, take focus/responsibility away from the perpetrator
knockoutn336
they mean god or fate or something is the reason - that there's some higher plan for what happened
Kyte314
Aye.