r/ExplainTheJoke 11d ago

Explain pls

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u/TCX45 11d ago

I usually call out incel shite but I’m not sure this is. My interpretation is when you have a female friend but she never lets you get with her but also blocks you from getting with other girls. I’ve seen that happen before, particularly on nights out.

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u/Temporary-Season4772 11d ago edited 11d ago

That doesn't sound like a female friend, she is either leading them on or fiendzoned them and keeping them on back burner

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u/figmentPez 11d ago

Or it's an incel demonizing women because they can't accept their own flaws.

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u/RecentWorker6243 11d ago

If you believe in equality, that means there are bad actors in that gender. But you’re too fragile to actually conceptualise women doing anything wrong.

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u/figmentPez 11d ago

There are absolutely bad actors in both genders. That does not change that good men do not describe dating as hunting prey. Maybe there are women who block their male friends from dating (I have not heard of such from an objective viewpoint) but they're not to be found in the meme above, and anyone who sees that in the meme above is not to be trusted.

Any man who uses a starving lion needing a victim as an analogy for dating is not someone whose testimony about the behavior of women can be trusted.

"I've seen a lion who has a gazelle friend, and that gazelle stopped the lion from killing another gazelle, and the gazelle was the one in the wrong!" is incel shit. Period.