Discourses I hated: Mean girls, alpha males and men who are unnaturally horny

Hello,

I’m back with another round up of discourses I hated.

This is my chance to take a break from the news and talk shit about the other horrific things I’ve seen on the internet this week.

There really is no shortage of material to work with.

Let’s go.

Trying to be a mean girl as a grown adult woman is not a personality trait

There is nothing crustier, mustier, or dustier than a grown ass woman who thinks it is cute to build a personality around being rude to other women.

Sure, many of us have had to unlearn our internalized misogyny over time but this awakening likely should have happened in high school as you gained a general awareness of the world and yourself.

Those who gain joy by lifting themselves up by putting someone down are truly the bottom of the barrel when it comes to human beings, but, naturally, these are the types who get cast as the quintessential reality TV villain.

This season of Love is Blind is no different.

Last week, mean girls Micah and Irina got absolutely dragged by the entirety of the internet for their antics on the first set of episodes of the show.

We saw them both demonstrating childlike emotional maturity while giggling to each other about the other girls in the house and talking behind their backs.

In one scene, Irina compliments the flowers received by another girl in the house before going to Micah and laughing and making fun of her.

They also attempted to eavesdrop on others' conversations to later gossip together in a corner, including laughing when Amber, who was also dating Paul (Micah's partner), was crying over her heartbreak.

Although in many cases on the show women are dating the same men, the show is in no way a competition show and there really is no reason to be evil to the other girls.

Unless of course, you’re extremely insecure and unsure of your ability to get men to like you without having to put someone else down.

It’s giving Pick Me with a capital P.

In Mexico, the pair continue their antics, thinking that being loud and obnoxious makes them the popular girls of the bunch while secretly being disliked by everyone else in the house. (Except Kwame, of course).

I think the visceral reaction of everyone on the internet was sparked by the fact that we all have met a Micah and Irina—someone who has said kind things to your face only to secretly criticize you for the same things they complimented you for.

You know the kind who gives you backhanded compliments or makes jokes that are just thinly veiled insults to mask their own insecurity?

While Irina got the boot from Zack after being extremely rude to him and criticizing his appearance despite being on the show Love is BLIND, she was later confronted by her own bestie Micah for hitting on her man in Mexico.

I mean, the proof was in the pudding sis. If she was talking shit about other women, you really expected her to be a girl’s girl? Pick-me’s never are.

At any rate, I cannot for the life of me understand why and how these women had not one but two men each pining after them, while their personalities are just plain ugly.

Alas, I’m looking forward to hopefully watching them get their karma—particularly with Micah being left at the altar by Paul.

I mean, she just let her friend (who the internet has pointed out is just a blonder version of Irina) talk to her man crazy and then criticized him when he tried to stand up for himself?

Pick-me’s deserve nothing.

The worst wedding vows I have ever seen

This week, I had the extreme displeasure of coming across a video clip where a man read out the most vulgar and vile wedding vows I have ever heard in my entire life.

I personally love the idea of delivering wedding vows. I think it is beautiful to profess your love to your partner out loud and make a verbal commitment in front of the closest people in your lives.

I see it as a chance to honour what your relationship is, and what you hope it will be.

But then there was this guy.

Watch the clip for yourself but don’t say I didn’t warn you about the major cringe that you will experience as a result.

In front of his and his wife’s entire family, including his mother who was officiating, and their two young daughters, this man proceeded to center his entire vows on his wife’s physical appearance and the sexual aspects of their relationship.

Him alluding to the, and I quote, “emptying of his balls” in his vows, was not even the most vulgar and descriptive thing he said. I legitimately wanted to throw up in my mouth.

Like sure, most married women want their partners to appreciate how they buss it down in the bedroom, but this isn’t and shouldn’t be the only positive thing they are able to muster up about them.

It also doesn’t need to be discussed in front of your entire family, regardless of the open relationship you think you have with them.

And beyond only fixating on the sexual aspects of their relationship while making vows for their marriage, it is also humiliating to have a partner who thinks it is appropriate to constantly make jokes at your expense to make themselves look cool or funny in front of others.

To speak about their most intimate moments in front of all of these people is a way to exert control over her, and embarrass her—even if he thought he was somehow giving her a compliment. (In what world is that a compliment).

Whatever his intention, it was disrespectful.

And I’m sorry but those who say that it is jUsT a jOkE are also just as unnaturally horny as the guy in the video.

Seek out god, y’all!

The unfair playing field for Black and white athletes

It’s never news when a Black athlete gets treated differently for doing the exact same thing a white athlete did, but it still pisses me off without fail.

The NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship took place on Sunday, and in the final game, Angel Reese was captured celebrating her victory and well-played game by pointing at her ring finger and taunting the other team by waving her hand in front of her face.

The gesture was a reference to WWE wrestler John Cena, whose famous move is waving his hand in front of his face as a euphemism for “you can’t see me.”

The moment hit the Internet and naturally people began dropping their two cents, with some calling Reese an “idiot,” or “classless piece of shit.”

What the internet seemed to forget, however, was that just weeks prior, her opponent Caitlin Clark had done the exact same gesture during a game, and people celebrated her for it.

People online talked about how “hard” Clark looked and how tough it was for her to be confident in herself while playing.

But clearly, the hypocrisy was ever present when it was Reese doing the exact same thing.

Athletes sometimes taunt one another. Athletes at the top of their game are competitive and want to win, this is normal.

I have the same level of determination and competitiveness playing in my weekly rec league. You can only imagine what the stakes are like for actual athletes.

But the people suddenly saying that confidence, showboating, or being competitive is “classless” when a Black athlete does it are really showing their ass.

And honestly, good for Reese.

Her response to the hate was to continue to be unapologetically herself, and call out the haters for what they are.

Losers celebrating Andrew Tate being released

I’m sorry, I shouldn’t even have to explain why the people celebrating Tate’s release are embarrassing, but, it is really saying something when you are rejoicing about a man accused of sex trafficking and rape being released from prison.

He has repeatedly demonstrated a complete disregard and disrespect towards women and yet there are thousands celebrating his brand of misogyny, which is really just fragile masculinity exemplified.

There are literal Whatsapp messages and voicenotes in which he reveals how much he enjoys enacting physical and sexual violence against women,

Whatever your rationale is for supporting this man – you’re embarrassing.

That is all for this week.

I’ll catch ya next time something pisses me off.

Goodbye friends.