Can anyone explain why people "like" their own posts on Facebook?
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
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Jesse - Aug 26, 2010 2:36:00 pm PDT #20421 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Steph L. - Aug 26, 2010 2:36:48 pm PDT #20422 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Or, at least, a social enforcement of heterosexuality as the ideal.
It's also an enforcement/endorsement of traditional gender roles, which has nothing to do with my heterosexuality, thank you very much.
Oooh, fair point.
Tom Scola - Aug 26, 2010 2:36:53 pm PDT #20423 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
For the same reason that people laugh at their own jokes?
Amy - Aug 26, 2010 2:37:33 pm PDT #20424 of 30001
Because books.
It's also an enforcement/endorsement of traditional gender roles, which has nothing to do with my heterosexuality, thank you very much.
I get this, I think. You mean how it could be assumed from a couple in a hetero relationship that the man is taking the traditionally male role (decision-maker, bread-winner, etc.)?
Jesse - Aug 26, 2010 2:37:42 pm PDT #20425 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Laughing at your own jokes is sometimes out of your control, though!
(I think I'm very funny...)
Strix - Aug 26, 2010 2:38:10 pm PDT #20426 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I say "kiddo(s)" all the time. About kids, to kids. My dad called me kiddo.
My pet peeve is "liberry." I corrected a not-mine kid(do) three times yesterday while he was playing Ghostbusters. I couldn't stop.
Amy - Aug 26, 2010 2:38:52 pm PDT #20427 of 30001
Because books.
If you wrote your own Facebook update, isn't it sort of assumed you like it?
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2010 2:39:24 pm PDT #20428 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I now want to accost every man I've ever slept with and ask him if he viewed me heteronormatively and then maybe kick him in the nuts.
Well, except for one, because I know he really tried to view me that way, and also he is a killer. So that one was on me.
Why today? I do not know.
Luckily I am not on Facebook looking at people like themselves. Because I really couldn't handle it right now.
Zenkitty - Aug 26, 2010 2:39:39 pm PDT #20429 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Saying/writing "anywho" (or "anyhoo" -- name your variation, and I loathe it).
Mah sistah. I especially hate it when someone says it with a big ol' sigh, as if the weight of their own storytelling has worn them out.
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2010 2:41:15 pm PDT #20430 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You mean how it could be assumed from a couple in a hetero relationship that the man is taking the traditionally male role (decision-maker, bread-winner, etc.)?
Yeah, this pretty much.
In my head now I'm going "anahoo!" over and over again. Thanks, Steph, for putting that out there.