• @[email protected]
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    852 months ago

    I think that humans have to have a certain level of non-reality based fears.

    Back in the day, werewolves and vampires were enough.

    As technology advanced, it was UFOs.

    Now it’s Jewish Space Lasers and Woke Transwomen in bathrooms.

    • VulKendov
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      262 months ago

      Can’t stress enough how silly of a fear transwomen in the bathroom is. Everyone knows women don’t use the bathroom.

      • flicker
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        2 months ago

        I recently told someone that, being a woman, I don’t understand why even a cis man in a woman’s bathroom matters.

        We don’t have urinals? We have stalls and only stalls. No one is getting naked in the main part of the bathroom? Where is the threat, that could be in any way more threatening than being anywhere where there are people?

        Such a stupid thing to fear.

      • NoIWontPickAName
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        -112 months ago

        Bullshit.

        It is a horrible place to try and prey upon them however.

        Their instinctual herd behaviors provide protections at their most vulnerable points.

        Kinds like how your dog watches you while pooping to make sure you have their back.

        • @Zron
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          42 months ago

          You sound like you’re not allowed to be alone with the cousins at family events

          • NoIWontPickAName
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            12 months ago

            Damn! I was going for a lighthearted joke about how women go to the bathroom together, but damn howdy did it fail

    • @ceiphas
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      172 months ago

      Or simply a boeing 737, these can crash anywhere…

      • @MotoAsh
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        192 months ago

        No, that one is real.

    • @Alk
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      152 months ago

      This makes me think. By now, werewolves and vampires are mythological beings we use as entertainment and find great joy in discussing even though we know they’re not real. Hundreds of years from now, maybe popular culture (D&D 86e or something) will be filled with Jewish Space Lasers.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 months ago

        Larry Niven once wrote a story with the throwaway line “the Berlin Nazis football team.”

        I was a little miffed the first time I read it, but eventually I got the idea that in the future, Nazis are as scary as pirates and raiders and Spartans are today.

    • @jj4211
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      122 months ago

      Everyone knows the real thing to be afraid of is quicksand.

    • @systemglitch
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      42 months ago

      I saw a UFO at about noon when in my backyard once.

    • aname
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      32 months ago

      Rainbows and unicorns are really scary to some. Especially of wielded by men.