Sportsball Energy

Maybe let people enjoy their hobbies? Is belittling other people for being enthusiastic about something the new chic?
- Literally. You can say that shit about anything. Like omg a lil researcher. We’ll have fun with your beakers lil guy! Keep mixing stuff 🙃
  Girls who like to knit are funny like “look at me I can make clothes out of string!” Yup you sure can lil one!
  Ugh.
  
  Yes to both of those. Next!
- Nah, it's been this way forever. Only, it used to be reserved for nerds and geeks enjoying d&d, comics, and whatever else wasn't cool at the time. Society's just at a point now where the jocks aren't the defacto popular kids so their hobbies are fair game for ridicule now too.
- I def agree that no one should knock a (harmless) hobbie, but I didn't read the post as being mean. My reading was more that it's genuinely thinking it's cute that some guys get so excited about sports. At least, it's better than the "ugh all men care about is sports" kind of angle.
  
  Seems pretty blatantly infantilizing
- No one is trying to keep anyone from enjoying things here? This is clearly just a funny joke and if it genuinely offends you then you're the one who needs to let people enjoy things.
  
  I admit I don't get the joke. I just see people smugly belittling others for their hobbies. Where is the joke? What's to be laughed at? If anything, this makes me sad that people are so antisocial and unempathetic that they feel like they need to tear others down to feel happy.
- You can run defense for football peeps all you want but football peeps live for shitting on people who don't football
  
  Or who football for the other team.
- Did that hit home? If you can't be made fun of, you're the bad guy.
  
  I mean, that doesn't check out if you think about it for more than 2 seconds.
- This is satire. Sports enthusiasts are mainstream, The mainstream is notorious for looking down on other people's hobbies being weird or not mainstream. Liking a sport is something almost everybody does. This is the little guy punching at the big guy, and that's why it's funny.
  As soon as people stop shaming D&D players and furries and other niche interests, this sort of retaliatory satire will vanish.
  
  You give an example of why one way might be more harmful than the other, but not why we can't just allow people to enjoy their interests in peace.
  You are basically saying "well, it's okay to act like asshole to everyone who likes sports because some people who like sports are assholes to other people!"
  It's a dumb point, especially if you see the harm in it yet still try to justify it.
  
  That attitude isn't going to make anything better. Two wrongs don't make a right. Generalizing all sports people as bullies is just as bad as picking on any other group for their hobbies. I say this as someone who doesn't give a shit about sports and was bullied quite a lot.
- That’s called being cool and has been around my whole life
  Edit: Either people are unaware of social conventions or think I am endorsing them
- You've obviously never lived where sports is a religion. These are not people "enjoying hobbies". These are frightened men screaming at children to run in a circle faster.
  If they were "enjoying it" they would smile more. Look at all the smiles on the sidelines there. Look at 'em. Are there any? Sometimes. But not that often. Mostly it's scowling and looking VRY SRS
  
  I grew up in a place where some football matches warranted a national emergency. Football hooligans were also pivotal in changing the government for the worse in the past 20 years. I know that football can be toxic. Moreover, I hated the over-emphasis of football in schools, and I never liked playing it, which had me left out of some social circles.
  All that said, if people want to run after balls, or dress up in merch of their favourite teams, let them. A ton of hobbies have toxic followings, that doesn't mean enthusiasm equals toxicity. Laughing and belittling people for being enthusiastic is quite antisocial in my opinion.

It's funny how cosplaying is seen as this weird niche nerdy activity... unless it's as an athlete.
Although, having said that, we do have the term 'full kit wanker' in the UK, for anyone who buys the whole kit (not just the t-shirt, scarf or hat). Because, you see, there's an acceptable quantum of cosplaying.
- If I told people I planned to sit around for hours on a weekend watching TV, they'd call me lazy.
  If I told them I was watching sports, they'd ask me what team I liked.
  
  If I told people I planned to sit around for hours on a weekend watching TV, they’d call me lazy.
  Pretty sure this stopped being true a decade ago.
- Wearing a jersey/scarf is more about showing which "tribe" you're part of though. Going full kit is a bit different as it's excessive.
  
  True. But I think if I wore, like, a Star Trek comm badge, that'd raise more questions than if I wore an Arsenal t-shirt!
- Yeah I’m a cosplayer and a sports fan. It’s weird. They’re really cousin hobbies. Both dressing up in appreciation and support of some pop culture “team”—usually that we had nothing to do with creating.

These women just can't understand that men dress and play sports for themselves, not to impress women.
😤😤😤
Another estrogen filled rant from the woman-splaining fem-ocracy!
- It’s obviously making fun of those types.
  
  Kevon maked a funny

Lemmy is weird today

My wife once asked me with a straight face if I had any "football cosplay shirts" and while it took me a minute to figure out what she meant, I couldn't argue with her terminology.

SportsBall!!! Wheee!
- We like sportz!
  
  And we don't care who knows
- Sunglasses on when you sleep. That’s a sport.

Hey do you guys remember when I was super good at sports in the past? Wasn't that great? I bet I could have been even better if coach had let me play in that key game. Then, everyone would have seen how good I was and I would have got to play more!
- But could you throw a football over those mountains?
  
  I could throw a pigskin a quarter mile.

If they all just took turns, holding the ball and putting it where they wanted, then there would be no need for all the aggression.
- I mean I could just go buy one, if I wanted.
- That's called Netball

I AM NO GAY, I WEAR ANOTHER MAN NAME AND NUMBER ON MY CLOTHES
- I just want him to know that I know his favorite number :)

Women are so funny with their designer clothes and handbags, "I'm just like my favorite singer/actress!" haha, sure you are, lil princess 😀
Getting their nails done is hilarious, like aww, you gonna go change the way your hand operates so you can have your fun-time 3 inch long plastic shit gatherers? better show them off at the grocery store! 😜
- somebody’s sensitive
  
  me on my way to drive a wedge between the sexes until we live in genderstates and only convene once per year for breeding
- Exactly.
- Spending money on activities and on community is vastly better than spending it on non essential things and I'll die on this hill.
  
  You can't act like there's a substantial difference between the former and the later. It's mostly a matter of opinion which things are trivialities and which things are important for happiness and community.
- My dude its a funny post on the internet. Unlike your comment, which was just hateful and vitriolic.
  Bet you're fun at parties.
  
  I don't get it. I thought turnabout is fair play. I find both funny.
  
  somebody's sensitive
  
  You got your panties in a bunch because the roles were reversed.
  I bet you are the life of the party.
  
  Somebody's sensitive

Why are furries looked down upon but people who dress in fursuits at sporting events viewed as figures of fun?
- The sex part.
  
  You mean the sex has to be covert instead of overt?
  
  What you don’t realize is that in this picture, the mascot is fully penetrating this man’s face pussy
- Nobody is trying to fuck the mascot.

I don't sports. All the men I know who sports seem to be very invested. Its cool though, I politics.
- Do you Jersey in politics too lil person?
  
  I jersey for sure. I'll put my local shirt on wherever. I'll wear my shirt for any walks or endorsements for candidates at the union hall.
  Yes, I'll wear my politics, if that's what you were saying.

The team you like the mascot better didn't win? Nightmare!

I don't get it either. Both of them.

I wear my Arsenal FC tops with pride. Although I don't get names put on the back. I fucking love football

mean girls are mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I745Ajeq_B8

does the dr. mean american football or the real thing that the rest of the world calls football? because even if you let people enjoy their guacamole toast - rooting for a shitty copy of a real sport is even worse than just having this general smalldickenergy/identity crisis. that makes her roast even better.
- Wow, there's a level of edginess I haven't seen in a while. Ooooh, look at you, you're too cool to like American [insert thing here], such a brave take, you seem so classy and mature

I'm not a sports fan, so I see the humor in this.
On the other hand, I also see women spending thousands of dollars on clothing, makeup, accessories, etc. In the mistaken belief that this will somehow gain them the attractiveness (which I think is debatable anyway) of professional models and actresses.
- Good point. As a man, I neither clothe nor groom myself, these being baffling, feminine activities. (For the curious, I wear a single beige tunic and wash myself in rainwater.)
- Me narrating a tennis match:
- yeah I hate attractive women
  grr! how dare they!
  
  Full Reddit let's go
  
  There is nothing at all wrong with attractive women. But women aren't going to become attractive by buying trendy shampoos, cosmetics, or clothing. It's an illusion created by the marketers for those items.
- Spend all that money on those things but never think about buying a gym membership.