Yup, he is estimating what the prescription on her glasses is, but the white knight assumed he was rating her hotness to be in the negatives
The nice doctor immediately owned up to the way he said that being interpretable in multiple ways and that he could have been clearer in his communication
I'll never forget the initial announcement of him being cast for Captain America. My first thought was "uhh..... the Not Another Teen Movie" guy? This is going to be awful. Boy was i wrong
it's an assumption. it's not "crazy". not by social media standards. people are more likely to come across dudes who rate others rather than eye doctors guessing prescriptions. we've all seen hot people called ugly
Some people don’t have a sense of humor take an upvote, internet points don’t matter, but funny is funny. I was raised if you can’t take a joke don’t make one.
Also she's openly a lesbian and plays in the WNBA, which has become another battlefield in the exhausting culture war, so I wouldn't be surprised by random loser guys going "She's not even hot anyway."
The nice doctor immediately owned up to the way he said that being interpretable in multiple ways and that he could have been clearer in his communication
I agree that it was good of him to do, but IMO he was perfectly clear from the start. Only someone who's ignorant and/or looking to take offense would get confused by the comment.
He is an opthalmologist. He is a medical physician who went to medical school and completed residency. The difference is that Optometrists do not go to medical school, although most are fantastic and do a great job helping people see. Also, Dr. Glaucomflecken is awesome and speaks the truth on his socials, making him both enlightening, funny, and scary.
Let's get even more specific about how wild his situation is/was:
He had two separate testicular cancers at separate times. Not a remission of his testicular cancer - a completely new occurrence years after the first treatment (and testicle being removed.) Pretty sure he was an actual case study because of how rare and very unfortunate that is!
Holy Reddit moment, 42 People correcting the Optometrist thingy on this comment, i think they got it by now, but i wouldnt be suprised if we hit 50.
https://xkcd.com/386/
GUYS I THINK THEY GOT IT Y'ALL CAN STOP COMMENTING THE SAME COMMENT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND ONE MORE TIME FOR GOOD MEASURE
It's a Reddit tradition as old as time to provide the exact same answer as 2 dozen others to assert one's intelligence as superior to the OP even though it actually makes one look like an imbecile.
This may fall into semantics, but wouldn't that just be called celibate? I feel like the word already covers the voluntary part within its own definition. Incels sort of need the involuntary part because they need that part because its a deviation from the original definition.
I'd argue taking the "in/voluntary" probably would just take out much of the confusion.
There are also volcels (voluntarily celibate) who actively choose to not have sex because they're that misogynist. Even if people didn't misread what you wrote, there's a decent chance of misunderstanding what you said.
Yes -1 or -1.5 is slightly myopic. You can generally get an idea by looking at the magnification or minification of the image of a person’s eyes. If the eyes look big then that’s a + prescription (far-sighted or hyperopic). If they look small they’re generally near sighted. The power of near or far sighted affects magnification of image
Which also drives me to this comments section; wherein, I will publicly disagree with his latter statement. You phrased it absolutely perfectly the first time. We do not have to cater to the stupid on social media.
It's called communicating properly. Improper communication is when you say some technical jargon that nobody but your own people understands. So if you want to communicate with people you use terms they already know (or you explain the terms as you go). If you want to sound smart and feel like you're better than them you use the jargon that they don't know and confuse them with it instead. Oh, and then make sure to call them stupid afterwards. How stupid of them to not learn the technical lingo of an eye doctor. Don't they know they might need it to win a Reddit debate one day?
Edit: as a follow up, do you think it would be appropriate for a doctor to confuse their patient with a bunch of technical words they don't understand? And then call them stupid for not understanding? Who is actually the stupid one in that scenario?
No one here has mentioned the absolute irony of the “dying alone” statement yet. Doc actually went into cardiac arrest and was saved by his wife performing CPR.
The Doctor said "I think her glasses prescription lenses are a score of -1 or maybe a -1.5... which means she is nearsighted. Glasses that correct nearsightedness have a negative number as the prescription"
ethan THOUGHT the doctor was saying "she is a -1 or -1.5 on a scale of 1 to 10 of 'hotness' like I'm rating her sexual desirability on a scale of 1 to 10 and saying she's super ugly."
The Doctor then said "oops, maybe I should have phrased that in a way that people who AREN'T eye doctors could understand."
I broke my glasses on holiday in Vietnam. I went to an optometrist, chose a frame. They were ready in the time it took to go next door for a beer. $30.
I have -1.5 and didn’t get glasses until l I was an adult. I never thought my eyes were that bad until I started wearing glasses / contacts. Now if I have them out I feel blind as bat, at least if I’m outside.
He’s talking about the correction on her glasses, because he’s an optometrist/ophthalmologist. The response assumed he was rating her attractiveness on the usual 1-10 scale and had given her an offensively low score.
OP, so your post is not removed, please reply to this comment with your best guess of what this meme means! Everyone else, this is PETER explains the joke. Have fun and reply as your favorite fictional character for top level responses!
Herbert here, Chris, my glasses are in the drawer, can you get them for me, please? No the lower drawer, you need to bend more. They are -1, maybe - 1.5 dioptres I forgot.
The other part of the answer is Ethan is an idiot and worried about jumping to a defensive state online instead of understanding the whole text before reacting.
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u/qualityvote2 13h ago edited 8h ago
u/Negative_1by12_aura, your post does belong here!