r/SubredditDrama • u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK Caballero Blanco • Jul 30 '15

A dude in /r/punchablefaces misunderstood a meme and then tried to defend his misunderstanding

/r/punchablefaces/comments/3d8lxz/he_posted_this_meme_on_facebook_1010_would_punch/ct2t61j
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u/theshantanu Jul 31 '15

It's not a dude. Ek Ladki means A Girl in hindi.

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u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK Jul 31 '15

I now realize this. My fault.

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u/theshantanu Jul 31 '15

Looks like reddit_newbie_3991 already pointed that out. Looking forward to SRDD.

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u/4445414442454546 Jul 31 '15

You didn't do anything wrong. Dude has worked as gender neutral for decades.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '15

is there only one correct answer in the universe?

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u/Oxus007 Jul 30 '15

I love when people double and triple down. It's so easy to post "Oops you're right, that was dumb of me".

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u/mapppa Jul 31 '15 edited Jul 31 '15

It's so easy to post "Oops you're right, that was dumb of me".

If reddit has taught me one thing, it's that on the internet admitting you are wrong is the hardest thing in the world.

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u/getoutofheretaffer Jul 31 '15

I did it a few weeks ago. I've been suffering from insomnia ever since. Would not recommend.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '15

But if you're wrong on the internet you're wrong in real life.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '15

You know, users can so easily spew racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. shit on here behind a veil of anonymity but even with that same veil they can't admit when their wrong. Baffles tf outta me.

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u/BiAsALongHorse Aug 01 '15

They can't handle the cognitive dissonance between the ideas "I'm a smart person" and "I made a mistake." Anonymity hides you from everyone but yourself.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '15

fuck it I'm with them. imagine taking memes seriously. actually, fuck them as well; it's fun when drama flows from such an yuck sibreddit.

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u/snallygaster Jul 31 '15

r/SummerReddit

Wait, so not keeping up with memes makes you a schoolchild? Shouldn't the opposite be more likely to be true?

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u/ByStilgarsBeard Jul 31 '15

It's not about the fedora on your head, it is about the fedora in your heart.

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u/recruit00 Jul 31 '15

sniff

Beautiful...

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u/Leakylocks Jul 30 '15

There's a lot of people there that really want to hit children.

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u/Wallace_Grover Jul 30 '15

They want to hit something. Generally things that won't hit back.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '15

it's funny how reddit seems to attract so many "i meant to do that" types who never back down on things where they obviously didn't understand what they were commenting on. it's not even just a dumb teenager thing or a troll site thing. people post stupid obviously immediately wrong things on somwthingawful and 4chan etc. and then a bunch of people quote them and rag on them and they disappear out of embarrassment. but for some reason on this site they dig their heels in like they can overcome a callout through sheer will power and length of counterargument. it's really strange

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '15

The poster's a girl

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '15

is there only one correct answer in the universe?

It's like it's high art with this guy.

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u/ttumblrbots Jul 30 '15

doooooogs: ^^1, ^^2 (seizure warning); ^^3, ^^4, ^^5, ^^6, ^^7, ^^8^^; if i miss a post please PM ^^me

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '15

"ek ladki" means "one girl" in Hindi. User being Indian and female might explain why she didn't understand the meme.

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u/IronTitsMcGuinty Jul 30 '15

Yes, we females don't understand memes. Too dank for my lady brain. (srsly. You can make an argument for the cultural barrier, and even that's a little bit questionable, but not the gender one, friend.)

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u/ArchangelleDovakin Jul 31 '15

Came here to post almost the same thing as newbie there. I don't know about the user being a woman, but them being likely indian does increase the likelihood of not having come across that particular meme previously.

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