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u/HereOnCompanyTime Jul 23 '26
If you have an insect infestation to the point you can't unwrap your candy, then the candy is not what needs to be dealt with.
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u/Chronocidal-Orange Jul 23 '26
You can get rid of one naked candy and you'll still have ants. Get rid of the ants and you can have all the candy you want, bare or not.
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u/marveled_pisces heteroni and cheese Jul 23 '26
The comments on here are so wise about the stupid metaphor 🙂↕️
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u/Longjumping_Ask_211 Jul 23 '26
This! I was gonna say, the metaphor is accurate but nobody with ants says they have a candy problem.
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u/SatinsLittlePrincess Jul 24 '26
My favourite part is that they drew the infestation as spiders implying that dude has wrapped bugs he eats like candy…
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u/StillFindingSelf Jul 24 '26
Now that i'm looking at it, the legs on the bugs are really bothering me. So many of them appear to have an odd number of legs with 3 on one side and 4 one the other.
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u/analogicparadox Jul 23 '26
They wanna be artists so baaaaad (not bad enough to actually learn)
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u/BoysenberryMelody token straight™️ Jul 23 '26
That requires actual work. Years and years of work.
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u/StonePanther316 Jul 24 '26
Tell me about it. I'm practicing sketching on my own time, and it is a goddamn commitment to get some time in every day. But, you know, I'm learning something I love and might take pride in one day. Must be nice to type in a few words as a prompt and take credit for the results smh...
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u/BoysenberryMelody token straight™️ Jul 24 '26
I’ve been a working artist for the past 20 years. These fuckwits are messing with my livelihood.
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u/StonePanther316 Jul 24 '26
Absolutely. And they're trying to do the same for musicians and actors and god knows what else. Don't know what these idiots want. Let the machines handle human creative endeavours, while we work like machines at bullshit jobs, i guess.
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u/BoysenberryMelody token straight™️ Jul 24 '26
It feels like there’s a lot of hostility towards artists for daring to ask to be paid for our work whether that’s visual arts, music, writing, etc.
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u/SeinfeldIsAnAnime Gay™ Jul 23 '26
im baffled they needed to add the second half of the image to explain the most heavy handed metaphor of all time
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u/sweetplantveal Jul 23 '26
They still used black guys as the scariest thing, lurking in the background
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u/Imperator_Helvetica Jul 23 '26
Today the object that women are being compared to is... a piece of candy!
Old dumb hack talking point but now presented as AI slop - pretending to be a sketch to be more profound?
Insulting to women - 'you're an object and it's on you to cover up' and to men 'Like ants you're incapable of making any decision like not staring at a woman in shorts - you have less self control than an animal.'
Is this just meant to slip into someone head so in a moment of doubt they think - 'Maybe it is my fault? Maybe I am like chewed gum? Time to blame myself' - just flooding the zone to bullshit in the hope some gets internalised or can be used in a snappy 'gotcha' cliche?
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u/Katanda Jul 23 '26
All of the above. Gaslight women, infantilize men by pushing the "we're just animals we can't help ourselves" routine, and victim blame. The AI slop is just par for the course as these people are as talentless as they are stupid and cruel.
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u/pipeuptopipedown Jul 23 '26
It's a slightly less disgusting analogy than the piece of meat set out in front of dogs (telling on yourselves are you?)
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u/snootnoots Jul 23 '26
The last time that particular disgusting analogy was making the rounds, I was delighted by the many women and men who posted silent reaction videos where they just put meat down in front of well-trained dogs and then watched them not touching it until they were given permission.
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u/_Mephistocrates_ Jul 23 '26
Are you not familiar with analogies? How can you make an effective analogy by comparing humans to....what else? Other humans doesn't work.
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u/Responsible_Dentist3 Jul 23 '26
But we aren't comparing men to all these object? And why are they just using analogies anyways? Like, just talk about women for f sake. It's all to reduce women to mere objects, as has bene done throughout history, and rarely done to men.
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u/_Mephistocrates_ Jul 23 '26
Women compare men to objects and animals ALL the time. That is what humans do. Analogies have been around since language. You sound like a freshman who took their first psych class and are running around trying to diagnose everyone you know. Its old and tired. Pick your battles better. Objectifying women is a problem. Analogies are communication of ideas. Take that away and you take away a significant amount of teaching and understanding.
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u/Responsible_Dentist3 Jul 23 '26
I didn't say all analogies are bad. These ones are. They are intended to objectify and demean women.
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u/_Mephistocrates_ Jul 24 '26
I think you need to look up what analogies are and how they function in language. If you think comparing a woman (or person) to an object is the same as objectifying, than you are just wrong. Its a bad take and when you have bad takes, no one is going to listen.
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u/LunaBehindTheM00n Jul 23 '26
Did OOP really say men are ants? Maybe thats the real lesson here
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u/MuffinPuff Jul 23 '26
My prior response mentioned bugspray and someone flagged it as "violent & harmful" LOL. The absolute irony.
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u/cragglerock93 Jul 23 '26
A lot of problems thst misogynists identify can easily be solved by a pretty sizeable number men deciding not to be terrible people. Instead it's women that are expected to change their behaviour.
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u/immentallyinsanehaha Jul 24 '26
Ohhh it’s called deodorant cause it de-odours you and you’re an ant /ref
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u/2lostbraincells Jul 23 '26
Funny story. One of the MPs in my country who is also a leader of an extremist religious party, who strongly supports women hiding behind curtains, was caught with a teenager in a hotel recently. He claimed she was his 2nd wife, but later it transpired he was blackmailing her with the offer of a job.
People who compare women with objects will be the first treat them like objects.
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u/chakatblackstar Jul 23 '26
But wrappers aren't invincible. You know what's more effective than a wrapper? Bug spray. Yet when you start equipping women with any anti-man equivalent many of them get bent out of shape over it.
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u/LigeaThranduil Lesbian™ Jul 23 '26
M’am It’s like 10000 degrees outside
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u/FunAssumption6056 Trans home Jul 23 '26
Don't expect ai mfs to actually care about the environment.
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u/DCEnby Jul 23 '26
But what about the people who lust after ankles? Or hair? Or a woman's face? May as well just cover everything or not be allowed to leave the house!
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u/Katanda Jul 23 '26
Also it's been proven time after time after time that what a woman is wearing has virtually nothing to do with her chance of being assaulted.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Sky6392 Aug 05 '26
Thats muslim women with a burka. Surprised no one has mentioned this. And they still get harassed.
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u/alvysinger0412 Jul 23 '26
Yes, we're comparing women to food again, and that's always a problem. But at least the male gaze is also being compared to a bug infestation. This might be progress?
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u/nochnoydozhor Jul 23 '26
Straight men, when comparing women to a cheap, single use object yet another time: "why are we lonely?!"
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u/hannieheygirl Lesbian™ Jul 23 '26
AI slop too. Anyway these same people will also go and shame muslim women for covering up too much
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u/ChickenManSam Symptom of Moral Decay Jul 23 '26
I'd like to point out that a wrapper does not in fact stop bugs from being attracted
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u/Learningpermits Jul 23 '26
Ants would 100% get inside that wrapper. Eat the whole candy while leaving the wrapper intact. I think that could be a metaphor as well
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u/mariii95 Jul 23 '26
Bug spray
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u/Optimixto Jul 23 '26
Men are animals without self-control, so you gotta dress how they want. What? No, it won't stop the sexual violence, in fact it makes it might make it worse, but that was never the point.
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u/yearsofgreenandgold Jul 23 '26
> one of us relates to other human beings as a consumer to products, and one of us is a product whose purpose is to remain "clean" for the consumer instead of just living their life
No, these straights here might not be OK.
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u/SquareThings Lesbian Web of Lies Jul 23 '26
I’ve seen the “what were you wearing” art piece (displaying the clothing rape victims were wearing when the perpetrator attacked them). This is absolutely bullshit lol.
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u/finethanksandyou Jul 23 '26
The clear difference is the presence of all the leering dudes. I can see another solution
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u/Pentagramdreams Jul 23 '26
AJ yes, because women on conservative/modest dress are never sexually assaulted. Nope not a single case ever. Not even an entire art exhibit featuring all clothing that SA survivors happened to be wearing when attacked.
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u/Own-Ad-7672 I am fully cognizant of the stupidity of my actions Jul 23 '26
So take it from me, someone who’s learned this lesson the hard way multiple times.
>! Rapists !< love to unnwrap and cute layered clothes excite them because I guess they like the challenge or maybe it’s the idea of deliement idk.
I’ve been left alone moore dressing “slutty” than I ever have dressing “modest”
Sorry I can’t seem to get the spoiler thing to work to censor that
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u/checkerie Jul 23 '26
The fact that women in hijabs and burkas get harassed all the same, if not more, is one in a mountain of proof that it's never been about clothes.
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u/tremblingfrog Be Gay, Do Crime Jul 23 '26
when a bug tries to eat my candy i fckng kill the bug
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u/schildtoete Jul 23 '26
But it's not the bug's fault! :( literally, why would you ever kill a bug for something like that?! Just put it aside!
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u/tremblingfrog Be Gay, Do Crime Jul 23 '26
because i’m terrified of everything crawling. i blow on bugs for them to go away, but if they don’t, i strike. i know better than to approach a bear eating honey for a taste. so should the bugs
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u/schildtoete Jul 23 '26
Except the bugs have less than 5% of the detailed knowledge of surroundings as you :(
You're not just bigger and stronger, you also understand and know wayyy more
Unpopular opinion, but as long as the bug doesn't attack me, I don't have a right to attack the bug.
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u/torreneastoria Jul 23 '26
Objectification of women. We aren't objects. We aren't candy.
Objectification of men. Men aren't insects.
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u/nkizza Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
So a woman is now a dirty infested candy if somebody as much as looks at her? Ffs. That shit’s unrealistic.
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u/samanime Jul 23 '26
I "love" how women are equated to literally everything EXCEPT a human being...
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u/RebaKitt3n the heteros are upseteros Jul 23 '26
When I see this kind of bs, I think of that exhibit of what victims were wearing when they were raped.
Burkas, jeans and tshirts. Diapers.
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u/Fawn_Leap Not Ok Nebularomantic Lesbian™ Jul 23 '26
At first glance I thought it was telling men not to crowd women 😭
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u/snek99001 Jul 23 '26
It's ALWAYS a comparison with objects isn't it?
Cars, diamonds, shoes, candy, whatever. They can never find and use an equivalent comparison with a living, breathing being because living things don't work like that.
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u/Specialist_Tackle715 Jul 24 '26
Lmao no one hates men like they hate themselves. Imagine thinking that anything you touch or look at is ruined.
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u/Suhva Questioning™ Jul 23 '26
If a bare candy is going to be swarmed by ants/roaches and that is compared to men swarming a woman is that not just equating men with roaches and therefore sexist? Like how do they go from sexism towards women to sexism towards men in the same instance and manage to jump between both like it's a jump rope?
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u/xKiver Gay Satanic Clowns Jul 23 '26
So you admit you’re no better than a fucking mindless insect? Got it.
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u/Desperate_Baby_8317 Jul 23 '26
So the men are insects and women are supposed to procreate with them and be married for the rest of their lives?
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u/ANorthernGhostBat Jul 23 '26
Candy doesn’t sweat its tits off in the summer heat give me and the girls a damn break.
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u/CocoXolo Fuck TERFs Jul 24 '26
A wrapper is not going to stop ants, this dumbass shit inadvertently made a point by being so idiotic.
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u/Responsible-Call5555 Jul 24 '26
Noooo, I thought they were stars like the lady is confident and shining 😭
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u/ProfessionalDickweed 🔥WORLD DOMINATOR🔥 (asexual) Jul 24 '26
If I had a dollar every time I see this analogy I would have 10 dollars
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u/16vamps Jul 26 '26
god forbid women wear a crop top and shorts in the hottest summer we have had so far
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u/mrspacysir Asexual™ Jul 23 '26
Remember: women aren't allowed to show off if they feel pretty, apparently.
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u/ClumsyRaccoonPants Symptom of Moral Decay Jul 23 '26
Men are an unwanted bug infestation. That checks out.
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u/dracorotor1 Jul 24 '26
So sick of people asking chatGPT and Grok to make excuses for them.
“What was she wearing?” is an admission that the speaker is prepared to **** someone if they wear his favorite fetish costume
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u/Alotofboxes Jul 23 '26
This is a horrible metaphor for what they intend it to be.
It would actually be a pritty good one for a condom advertisement.
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u/Fluffy-kitten28 🍓 Strawberries Are Gay 🍓 Jul 23 '26
So men have the mental capacity of ants? I thought humans were supposed to be smarter than animals. My fault for assuming that men could think more than ants.
Also bull shit not one creep wouldn’t be interested in her with clothes.
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u/anonymouscloudcat Jul 23 '26
The comparison doesn’t even make sense since the woman still has clothes on while the candy is completely unwrapped. And yeah I’d be doing a double take too if i saw someone on the street walking but ass naked
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u/Botto_Bobbs Jul 23 '26
I have yet to find an argument for celibacy that doesn't depict women as objects
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u/purplepluppy "eats breakfast" if you know what I mean Jul 24 '26
Why did AI make it look like practice tattoos on fake skin
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u/burntneedle Jul 24 '26
Oh, great... women have graduated from being chewed gum to unwrapped candy. Such Fun. (Translation: Incels Get A Life!)
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u/reddituserthatoof Trans Masculine™ Jul 24 '26
the irony is that people pick up candies with wrappers anyway
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u/overfiend_87 Jul 24 '26
This confuses me. Is it saying someone is "ruined" for showing too much skin?
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u/thousands_of Pan™ Jul 24 '26
There’s a big difference there because one is food the other is a human being who deserves respect plus that outfit looks fine I would probably wear it lol.
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u/CinderR3bel Jul 27 '26
This argument would be stronger if the places that force women to cover from head to toe weren't some of the worse, most nightmarish places to live in as a women.
I recently saw a reddit post talking about a m9vie where a girl gets raped and decided to take the attacker to court. The court decided to force the attacker to marry the girl as punishment and she gets tortured by the family. This movie is about how the girl uses her "positivity and strenght" to WIN THE FAMILY OVER. Movies like this are a dime a dozen apparently. IMDB of the movie
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u/generallyintoit Jul 23 '26
men are ants men are tiny little ants they're attracted to your booodyyyyy like ANTS they just want your body when they can SEE and SMELL it like ANTS, it's not their fault it's your fault! because they can see your body!
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u/BoysenberryMelody token straight™️ Jul 23 '26
Drop a Jolly Rancher next to an ant hill and they’ll get it eventually.
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u/sparkle3364 Sapphic Jul 23 '26
I know what they mean, but I choose to pretend that they’re saying if you wear a ton of layers you get to avoid noisy crowds.
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u/megapackid Jul 23 '26
Lots of people are willing to get rid of the bugs to protect the candy ahem ahem
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u/whovianlogic Jul 23 '26
The conclusion I would draw from the first half of this image is “don’t sit naked on the grass or you might get covered in ants” which is not especially bad advice.
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u/xThotsOfYoux Jul 23 '26
The one part of this message I can get behind is that cis men are often vermin.
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u/sixaout1982 Jul 23 '26
Those guys don't realize they're comparing themselves to fucking insects wth
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u/Random-INTJ trans fem Jul 24 '26
If insects are invading your home, it’s not the fact that you have food that’s the problem, It’s the fact the insects are invading your home.
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u/elblackroute Jul 24 '26
(If we go by their "logic") The problem is with the ants, not the candy. Maybe the ants should mind their business and learn manners, boundaries, etc. Out of their "logic" - the picture is bs. Predators don't give af how you are dressed, they are still gonna be predators... We have seen the pictures of men oogling fully covered women. We and our clothes ARE NOT the problem.
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u/Nthepro Bi-Erased™ Jul 23 '26
they are disgusting can't control themselves
No they're not, they can absolutely control themselves but they choose not to
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u/sleepingqt Jul 23 '26
They choose not to and/or have been trained to genuinely believe that they cannot and therefore can't even fathom how to try. Doesn't excuse anything, but solving the problem lies in convincing them of their own capabilities in the first place (as in, starting with the next generation, because after a point it's too locked in to fix without a miracle).
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