QED *mic drop*

i'm not evil and i'm female. why would you even say that?

The original equation given to me 20 years ago included time = money, but that also meant time = √evil. The concise version omits this inconsistency, though I did have to change women = time^2 to women = money^2, which seems to make more sense since they tend to bleed one dry both coming and going. As for being evil, don't take it personally, it's the setup for what's known as a joke. Sort of like the creation story where Eve is blamed for getting us kicked out of Eden, biggest difference being I think more people are aware that my formula is bullshit. :D

Since men derive from women a more realistic equation might be women = √evil, men = women^2, men = √evil^2, men = evil, but to be honest I suck at maths, and neither sex has any greater or lesser tendency towards behaving despicably.

yeah, now you can't do anything without someone disapproving, it's annoying, sometimes i wish ppl would shut their mouths and just get along

If you'd be so kind as to indulge me, the biggest part of the problem is people not knowing where their rights end and another's begin. It's pretty cut and dried how to handle people who are deliberately antagonistic or way too sensitive (avoid them) since it's generally acceptable for them to act that way and as such no one else has a right to tell them they have to change. It gets murky when you weight freedom of speech against a person's right not to be harmed. Hence the fact that yelling fire in a crowded theater isn't protected speech. People are free to think anything they want. Their actions, including self expression, are pretty clearly regulated.

The real interesting part is what constitutes harm. If someone believes demographic X needs to be exterminated, great, they're an asshole. Nothing special there. If they start killing members of demographic X, they're a murderer and get to go to jail. Nothing special there either. The nuanced area is when they start communicating their beliefs to others. Flat earthers are a benign example. Petophiles are a malignant example. Mostly it's tolerated as long as everyone involved consents to the discussion. Yelling obscene or hostile shit on a random street corner won't be tolerated because it can do harm to people who don't want to hear it. On the other hand, if a trans person goes to a Dave Chappelle show and gets offended by his jokes about trans people, well, the corollary to "know your audience" is "know what to reasonably expect in a given setting." People shouldn't need to keep their mouths shut. They should know when to say what, and where certain controversial but not inherently criminal things are likely to be said. SJWs in particular would do well to sort out when other people are within their rights to express certain views and when they've crossed a line into criminally inappropriate. But until an act of expression becomes criminal, at the end of the day people are simply entitled to be as shitty as they want. (No harm in pushing back, but leaving is usually the prudent move.) Anyway, I've blathered enough. Just food for thought.

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i get that sometimes you just have to say things for the sake of making memes
i get that, just be more careful next time you post something like this or you might get yourself in a mess and it won't be easy to get out of, i would know
i mean you don't want to find a karen!

I appreciate your concern. The thing is, everything is going to offend someone. A friend gets triggered by the whole Karen meme because she thinks it shames women for standing up for themselves. (She doesn't seem to mind Chad though--funny how we tend to focus on issues where we have skin in the game.) But her name isn't even Karen. Imagine how offensive that is to people who happen to be named Karen.

Imgflip tells you not to post anything offensive but they have a template called Rape Sloth. Even I find that offensive. The thing with comedy is that as soon as 1 topic becomes untouchable, nothing is safe from redaction. The key is to know your audience. My main audience is me...and whomever sees those of my submissions that get approved by the moderators.

If there was a category for edgy I'd use it, even though "edgy" is as subjective and ill-defined as NSFW. It's not my goal to offend the sensitive--that's simply a by-product of the lazily defined, erratically enforced, poorly categorized content and the essentially random audience that finds it.