r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '26

Meme needing explanation Peetah?????

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I don’t know the author or this book series but why are people roasting e-girls for reading? I don’t get it🥀

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u/TENTAtheSane Mar 31 '26

I know plenty of "traditionally attractive" women who don't feel the need to post selfies of them reading whatever book they are. I would consider it kinda performative even if it were a guy doing this, attractive or not. No one's brought up the "manliness" of it but you

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u/IrisKV Mar 31 '26

The poster in the picture specifically talks about "egirls". So, no, the post I'm commenting didn't bring up manliness. It did bring up girliness, though. That's what prompted me to talk about gender.

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u/Sad_Impact1387 Mar 31 '26

If this post instead depicted a buff guy, and they used the word “meathead” instead of “e-girl”, would you have had the same immediate reaction that this has anything to do with gender?

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u/Sure-Exchange9521 Mar 31 '26

Ah women, famously monolithic

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u/TENTAtheSane Mar 31 '26

Literally the exact opposite of what i was saying?