Some guy today mentioned he was in a band to me and I watched him get visibly uncomfortable when I didn’t ask him anything about it. He kept trying to bring the conversation around to his band and I wasn’t budging.
POWER MOVE: Complete and utter disinterest in men’s obsession with their own mediocrity
Why the fuck did someone have to make this about gender? How is this mediocre?? Why is it so important to forcefully gloss over someone’s musical hobby? Yeah, some people are invested in their interests - one of my coworkers won’t shut up about her essential oils side hustle but I’m not gonna be an asshole just so I can be proud of myself on Tumblr.com. Jesus Christ, conversations aren’t battlefields.
maybe that guy was really excited about the band thing. maybe he just wanted to tell someone about it. but you just had to go and be rude, huh.
y’all are dicks and this is why people dont wanna be friends with y’all
OP doesn’t have any idea of how awful it feels for someone to be happily talking about something they’re passionate about and then getting this kind of reaction.
Even if you don’t give a fuck about him and his band, for the sake of being a polite person like everyone should be, ask him a couple of things, say “that’s so cool!” “What do you think of [related topic]?” “How many years have you been playing your instrument?”
It literally costs $0.00 to be kind with other human beings.
And as someone who infodumps a whole lot and was told during all elementary school to stop talking because no one cared about my hobbies or interests, seeing that there’s still people like that makes my heart ache.
This is not progressive. This is being an asshole, and this attitude disproportionately affects neurodivergent people who infodump. Stop.
Y’all wonder why y’all don’t have friends and why everyone treats you like crap when you do shit like this. And then reblog shit about being kind to people and their hobbies and interests but only because you want people to be kind to your hobbies and interest while you express disinterest in anyone else’s.
Y’all wonder why people got issues opening up and shit and this shit here is the reason why. People like you OP
