it's Kanbaru again 🌟
had some thoughts after a friend told me they got blocked by the menswear guy* (they don't know why)
* this is a guy who exists on twitter in like the last year or something idk if anyone outside twitter knows who he is
![Discord screenshot (transcript follows):
hikari 🌟 — Idag 15:09
it's a shame that he's a bit of a culture warrior
like
he's not a full-on culture warrior
but
it dilutes his message
and it's a shame because he has such an interesting mind
[redacted] — Idag 15:09
yeah
hikari 🌟 — Idag 15:11
he gives off a bit of a vibe of being personally torn about his inability to separate the prescriptive and descriptive
[redacted] — Idag 15:11
yes. 100%
hikari 🌟 — Idag 15:11
because you know, he always wants to just educate on the language of clothing etc
but then he's
explicitly
said
that he only picks on people he already doesn't like
i wonder if this, too, is menswear forum trauma
[redacted] — Idag 15:12
lmao
hikari 🌟 — Idag 15:12
it's genuinely very fitting for someone of his discipline
menswear may have all this beauty to it
but it is also
Dripping
in class warfare implications
that even he is not managing to escape, even though he is more big-brained about it than most](https://social.noyu.me/fileserver/01K5XEEZF4A486Z2PRS7NHG169/attachment/original/01JC8MQQFFGDMFQA2HVN73AGQM.png "Discord screenshot (transcript follows):
hikari 🌟 — Idag 15:09
it's a shame that he's a bit of a culture warrior
like
he's not a full-on culture warrior
but
it dilutes his message
and it's a shame because he has such an interesting mind
[redacted] — Idag 15:09
yeah
hikari 🌟 — Idag 15:11
he gives off a bit of a vibe of being personally torn about his inability to separate the prescriptive and descriptive
[redacted] — Idag 15:11
yes. 100%
hikari 🌟 — Idag 15:11
because you know, he always wants to just educate on the language of clothing etc
but then he's
explicitly
said
that he only picks on people he already doesn't like
i wonder if this, too, is menswear forum trauma
[redacted] — Idag 15:12
lmao
hikari 🌟 — Idag 15:12
it's genuinely very fitting for someone of his discipline
menswear may have all this beauty to it
but it is also
Dripping
in class warfare implications
that even he is not managing to escape, even though he is more big-brained about it than most")
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tef
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@hikari the thing that gets me is that the milquetoast critique boils down to "you're nouveau riche!" a good 90% of the time
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tef
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@hikari sure enough, it isn't the usual critique of right wingers, calling people ugly, suggesting that they're gay, or saying their body is misshapen
but at the same time it feels bizarrely toothless "aha you aren't obeying this arbitrary set of rules i have invented. look at this rich person who didn't buy the right accessories"
it feels like someone's trying to catch a gangster on tax fraud, and failing
it's Kanbaru again 🌟
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@tef he's playing a game against people who aren't playing the same game as he is. like liberals pointing out contradictions in fash arguments.
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Saagar Jha
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tef
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@hikari he is also kinda funny to be fair but yeah i can't shake the classist vibes
it's Kanbaru again 🌟
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@tef that's what makes it so sad! it's like, dude, you clearly are halfway to embracing the beauty of all things, but you're held back by your own judgmentalness
it's Kanbaru again 🌟
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ok i have been fucking bodied by a friend on the fediverse pointing out that half his criticisms are just that someone is nouveau riche. oh my god i was right. it WAS just a class thing, i just couldn't see it. lmao
it's Kanbaru again 🌟
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oh, so when i type on discord i tend to deliver pauses in speech by separating them into separate messages? so my usage of periods and elipsis and so on in tweets is literally a representation of the rhythm of speech? that's kinda cool
R
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@hikari we've seen people remark on the different usage patterns of people who grew up having vs not having typing indications
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