I am not sure why there is all the ‘Ok Boomer’ hate for this post. People must feel personally attacked for some reason and are lashing out.
This sort of misinterpreting the past humor can be really funny if you are interested in archeology. Publications such as The Journal of Irreproducible Results and books like The Wens are great for this.
People when women’s boobs are small: -scoffs-
People when women’s boobs are big: ‘Attention whore.’
People women’s boobs are implants: ‘Fake ass hoe.’
People when women: ‘You shouldn’t be like that because it’s unattractive to me and that’s the only thing you’re good for.’
Wow the problem with modern society is still a sub-culture of women? Its crazy how that’s been the main problem with society for the last 1000+ years
On today’s unfunny Boomer humor:
Heherp herp bimbo waomen out of my league and phone bad
Seriously the lamest boomer humor. I can see my angry conservative uncle posting this, nothing better to do than tear people younger than him down
Not really against younger people, we have 70 year old stars with these augmentations.
The phone is the keystone for the young comment. Even though ime boomers use their phones more than younger generations, I see more boomer memes about “phone use hahaha” than any other
I just find it funny that younger people feel instantly targeted when it’s about their phones. I mean, I use my phone all the time as well, but I’m still honest enough to admit how ridiculous this whole phone situation is.
It’s probably the 2 decades of constant deluge of lame memes making fun of us and endless news articles on how we used our phones too much
The boomers that have embraced technology probably have equal screentime or more since they are retired.
I think the critique sometimes does apply to the younger gen though because a Boomer has had both life with and without phones and can reflect on that and also solve issues outside of the phone realm because that’s how they experience life prephone era.
For example if a young trainee struggles with software, and I ask what they are waiting on, they will say I emailed the vendor last week, just waiting for a reply, whereas the Boomer dude calls the vendor the next day if the email didn’t get a response, and speaks to a person directly and gets an answer sooner.
And thus we have those memes of a young persons phone ringing and them sweating and horrified that their buddy just called them out of the blue.
It’s not hard to do when literally 90% of people, young and old, are buried in their phone each and every day you go to work on public transportation, many of them with this stupid smile on their faces they exchange silly things with their loved ones. I find it so fascinating and pretty funny to witness, so it’s easy to make a joke about.
And then I realize that I’m on my phone as well. 🤣 At least not while I’m walking, I just can’t do it. I have keep an eye out and dodge those that do, haha.
If you think I’m exaggerating, come walk around here for a bit!
Its a stereotype like any other joke.
But funniest things I have seen is where people dependent on tech, lack general awareness skills.
There was a girl dropped off to meet a friend in our suburb, the friend was outside but a different area less than 100 feet away. They had their heads down texting each other what looked like “where you at?” “I’m over here” type Convo, and could have been using a location type app.
They wandered around, crossing the street, and walking up and down missing each other, until they eventually were heading directly toward each other and would have collided. They could have saved a few minutes by just looking up and doing a head swivel.
I also saw the same with a Skip-the-Dishes guy on foot following his app to deliver the bag of food, he was half a house off location and going up on the wrong porch, and the lady is out on her porch saying that’s mine, your are delivering over here. He was adimant he had to drop it per the app location, and went off the other way.
So I said dude forget the GPS location , what is the house number, he gave me the number, and I said that’s that house with the lady on the porch, see the numbers on the post over her porch. Then a light bulb went off for him.
But as a balanced bash against boomer generation, my mom thinks WiFi comes through the AC cord to her laptop, and will not accept my explanation of WiFi
Boomer women are like this too tbqh
Variants of this image are half the image reactions on Lemmy
Yeah and who is at fault for that?
Judging by the quality of humor I’ve seen on here, half the users must be boomers.
Archaeologists circa 2184 will have a much more interesting job.
Makes me wish I had three hands.
Hmmm… oddly, I feel like I’m having a Total Recall.
He took me to the future in the flux thing
And I saw everything
Boy bands, and another one, and another one
And another one
Triple-breasted women swim around town
Totally nakedYear 3000, Busted
not the reinterpretation from Jonas Brothers
Today on misogynist lemmy:
Hmmm. I don’t see myself as a misogynist. And don’t quite understand why I would be considered one for posting this content. (Was it because I didn’t find a male equivalent to share as well?)
I found it was ‘punching up’ at those who spend thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars, to fake their reality. That being said, I understand the feeling of insecurity about your looks, as I’m a balding man. I could have spent the money to use Rogaine or a similar product when I started to go bald early on. But after a few years of thinking about it (back then), researching people’s takes for and against it, the cost to maintain it and finally, what kind of person I would consider myself if I did so. I ended up on the long road of accepting who I am. It hasn’t been easy, especially in my 20s, when your appearance means so much more. But in the end, I’m glad I didn’t go down that path. I’ve come around and have accepted that this is me, and I’m fine with the lack of hair. (It sure cuts down on haircut costs haha.)
The bigger problem I have overall and why I ended up posting this image, was that I wanted people to A, have a laugh at the unrealistic and realistic sides of things depicted. B, spend some time thinking about their purchasing habits and more so, of what they purchase. And C, bring into question the ‘fakeness’ that our civilizations have been living in. And no, it’s not just women who are living a ‘fake’ life or more ‘fakeness’ than men are. That’s not my stance on this. My stance is that it’s ridiculous how many “things we need” to live a good life or better. Of course, that opens things up into a philosophical debate of what ‘is needed,’ but I have yet to find another species that needs a variety of tens/hundreds of thousands of things to work out, to live a good life on this planet. (And that’s another thing, we’re not the only species on this planet. So what gives us the right to generate and ‘dispose’ of these toxic products, byproducts, etc.?)
This is just a starting point for discussion.
I’d like to hear from you @mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone about the topic at hand. But first, why do you think I’m a misogynist?
I don’t think you’re a misogynist, but I think the picture can certainly come off that way. Here are a few reasons why:
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It’s misrepresentative. Silicone lip implants are not common and obviously never that big. No woman has these; it’s an exaggeration that has the effect of equating women with something ridiculous that doesn’t exist. (The common injectable lip fillers are temporary and don’t remain long after death.)
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No one else gets to decide for someone else what makes any procedure – and in this case breast augmentation – valid vs fake. Breast cancer survivors, trans people, and other patients getting reconstruction to live happy full lives would rightfully have something to say if you are implying that part of them is fake.
We all alter our bodies in all kinds of ways, both temporary and permanent, in an attempt to look and feel better about ourselves.
- The picture focuses only on depicting a woman, even though men get calf implants, veneers, nose jobs, chin implants, etc. The image isn’t being fair or insightful, but it is ridiculing and criticizing women who are different in certain ways; these are ways that men are different too, making the message hypocritical.
I appreciate the respectful nature of the discussion and hope it continues.
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I am not the person you responded to. I just wanted to say that I stopped and thought, “wow, that stuff probably DOESNT decompose, huh?” as I scrolled. Thoughts of misogyny or wondering how old the poster must have been never crossed my mind, so I was surprised to see some of these comments. I guess it’s nice it’s such a talking point.
Im glad you posted a detailed response on why you posted it either way, just in case anyone else was curious.
So first off it targets women getting cosmetic surgery and not really men getting them, since societally one is more accepted than the other. (Hair transplant vs boob job). The societal pressure to look a certain ideal is much higher on women than on men, and the ridicule women receive for surgeries done is disproportionally higher. So simply hiding behind “I meant all people not just women” when you very explicitly made fun of a (fictional) woman getting cosmetic surgery is just retrofitting a defense.
Secondly, presenting it as a generational thing presents it as just that, not as a wealth inequality thing.
Thirdly, body modifications (tattoos, piercings and surgeries) should not be ridiculed or shamed. They are part of how someone chooses to present themselves to the world and everyone should be free to do that just how they want. It doesn’t matter how misguided you think it might be, not your body not your say. This ties neatly into fighting the transphobic idea that “any surgery will look fake and trans women can always be ‘clocked’”.
I wrote more about the misogyny reinforced by “haha plastic surgery is for dumb bimbos” here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/15796191
I actualy did not know women get made fun of for hair transplants. I am actually sorry for anyone who has to go through that double standard.
Tho for plastic surgery side there are “muscle inplants” and other eqivalents. And guys who get that are really not getting away from criticism lol.
I didn’t mean that women get made fun of for getting hair transplants, I was trying to illustrate how one is a much more common trope than the other.
I’m not sure what the rest of your comment is meant to address. If it is merely to inform me that men also get made fun for plastic surgery, then don’t worry I’m aware which is why I used phrases like
The societal pressure to look a certain ideal is much higher on women than on men
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the ridicule women receive for surgeries done is disproportionally higher
Note that the “higher” keyword explicitly acknowledges that it exists for men as well.
If it is meant to say that jokes about people getting plastic surgery being dumb are fine since they target men too then see the rest of my comment. Plus that they don’t target men as much as they do women. Making fun of the “dolled up bimbo” is a much more common trope than of men.
Yeah but the specific joke here wouldn’t work so well with hair transplants. Pretty sure they’ll decompose with the rest of the body right?
I dont think I understand your point? Or what you are trying to say, like no archaeologists wouldn’t find hair transplants like that and therefore…?
Edit: and i think even if inaccurate it would work just as well as a “joke”, note all the impossibilities in the current picture. Her nails, how she’s holding her phone, the breast implants at the exact location and so on
Just that I think you guys are reading too much into it. I’m pretty sure the joke doesnt need to go much further than “imagine digging that up on a history dig”
but I have yet to find another species that needs a variety of tens/hundreds of thousands of things to work out, to live a good life on this planet.
Then again, we are a bald ape (that almost died out) living outside their environment, needing clothes and housing to protect from the elements. Which then led to cities and agriculture. The rest is just convenience.
ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for cupcakes
Lol. I love that this was(/is?) a way to verify if it’s a bot writing.
In a way, it’s a badge of honor to have some of your content be questioned.
Doesn’t read like AI to me.
i am not reading that shit at all😭
You need a picture book?
Then why engage with it at all?
man can’t get breast implants and lip fillers and nails and phone apparently 🙄
Yes this meme is a clever subversion of gender stereotypes and not meant as a reinforcement thereof 🙄
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My misogynist girlfriend found this funny too.
😐👍
Ah,yes
Just so you know: Alpha men exist too, and there are Penis extensions. So its not Mysoginy, its just Societal assholery, and since we live in a patriarchy, this „society” is mostly Men.
Addressed in a different comment https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/16276054
I mean to be fair I feel like various body modifications have always existed and probably will always exist. At most this will probably just look dated once everyone moves onto wanting spiky foreheads or something instead of bigger boobs
More like people in the future can order any boob size they want made from their own cells for the price of a happy meal. Nobody will know if they are body mods since the lab grown boobs are indistinguishable from body grown boobs since they are made from human tissue. It will become ubiquitous. People will just change boobs sizes on a whim, since the surgery will take less than a day. Going on an ultra run? get the flat chest package the day before. Your partner has a big boob fetish? get the huge mammaries package for their birthday. Even men might get a boob job for a day because they want to go in drag on halloween.
The real scary thing about those rings is that they can’t actually be taken off. Wear them long enough, and the neck muscles atrophy to the point where you’re incapable of holding up your own head. Take the rings off and your head flops over like a wet noodle.
It’s one of those status things. They don’t have to take the rings off because they’re wealthy. Fair skin or white cloths meant you didn’t do manual manual outside. Nowadays, tan skin means you have enough downtime to either go to the beach or tanning salon.
It must suck to have an itch there and you can’t scratch it
That’s what the long nails are for.
Funnier is that the implants might shift/fall and archaeologists will think people enhanced their shoulders and the back of their necks.
Then, there will be a subculture that does shoulder and neck enhancements.
Lol, I doubt we’ll let go of big boobs anytime soon.
as to them always having existed, we have old skeletons with stuff like this done to them, Im not sure some implants found with a body would be much stranger.
My goodness! Just looking at these images makes me feel a headache coming on.
wen mantis blades/cyberpunk stuff?
We have to wait for the government to finish shitting the bed, then the corpos can take over and sell whatever bullshit the CEOs think it’s rad.
Body mods will go the way of the dinosaur. It’ll all be digital avatars or things like the “surrogates” movie.
Surrogates was a terrible movie.
I sure had a lot of fun watching it though 😁
Wasn’t that bad! I could definitely see humanity getting to that point.
It was pretty bad and all the problems were changes from the comic. The comic had the timetable for everything much more believable and went into the benefits of surrogates.
I’ll have to check them out! Didn’t even know they came from comics!
Future historians:
"You can tell this dates to the early 21st century not because of all the pfas & microplastics, but by the event AI slop."Does this person think fake nails are attached to your bones?
She was sick and tired of them always falling off and got them surgically attached the last time she went in for her regular botox injections.
Haha literally w*men
Kinda rough to think of all women that way
Not just women, but also wamen and wumen as well.
Kristi Noem
All alien archeologists will find on our planet is the KPg layer marking the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs … and another thin layer of radioactive rock and soil evenly dispersed across the planet that marked the end of our period on the planet.
Trixie, that you? As long as they had a good time😁
(Also because I am curious: do implants really last longer than human skin and organs?)
Yeah now I’m curious if morticians remove this stuff and like medical metal stuff when they prepare people for burial.
Yeah. My wife had her implants taken out after 30 years; They looked brand new. Plastics are not forever, but last a very very long time.
Well, it looks like subcutaneous injections off silicones do see small molecules of it wrapped in vacuoles in the blood (though the injections are of fluids, so can’t be certain of the breakdown of more solid forms [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6358378/]). Silicones do burn, producing silica powder, which means it is subject to oxidation-reduction reactions in some manner. Some silicones break down readily in organic processes. The wikipedia article notes clay as being particularly catalytic. The medical grade silicones don’t have even that little bit available for long term study (especially of the thousands of years variety you’d need for this picture), but I’d take a wager even they would eventually decay. Buuuut, the decay would likely be slower than skin/organs.
So would silicon be subject to the same fossilization process as bones? Or whould it have a simmilar decay to cartilage?
Way beyond my knowledge base to even speculate. The NPS website has a bit of info on how fossils form, and the important bit seems to be that the material has pores which mineral carrying water can flow through. The site does mention that softer tissues like cartilage can undergo permineralization as well, but… Silicones are pretty permeable to gas, but fairly impermeable to liquids. They’d probably lose the bits that ‘decayed’ from the outside in, instead of the permineralization happening throughout as the material decays.
Lip filler and botox, no. But breast implants can apparently last up to 500 years or something.
Is it common for breast implants to have nipples? I’ve only ever seen two shapes, and neither had nips
