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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 84 points 4 months ago

I think that humans have to have a certain level of non-reality based fears.

Back in the day, werewolves and vampires were enough.

As technology advanced, it was UFOs.

Now it's Jewish Space Lasers and Woke Transwomen in bathrooms.

[-] VulKendov@reddthat.com 26 points 4 months ago

Can't stress enough how silly of a fear transwomen in the bathroom is. Everyone knows women don't use the bathroom.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I recently told someone that, being a woman, I don't understand why even a cis man in a woman's bathroom matters.

We don't have urinals? We have stalls and only stalls. No one is getting naked in the main part of the bathroom? Where is the threat, that could be in any way more threatening than being anywhere where there are people?

Such a stupid thing to fear.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

In my local Alamo Draft House movie theater they have two kinds of bathrooms; Stalls and Urinals.

[-] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago

My college dorm had co-ed bathrooms. For showers and everything.

It was not an issue.

[-] ceiphas@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Or simply a boeing 737, these can crash anywhere...

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

No, that one is real.

[-] Alk@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

This makes me think. By now, werewolves and vampires are mythological beings we use as entertainment and find great joy in discussing even though we know they're not real. Hundreds of years from now, maybe popular culture (D&D 86e or something) will be filled with Jewish Space Lasers.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

Larry Niven once wrote a story with the throwaway line "the Berlin Nazis football team."

I was a little miffed the first time I read it, but eventually I got the idea that in the future, Nazis are as scary as pirates and raiders and Spartans are today.

[-] MBM 4 points 4 months ago

D&D even already has golems, phylacteries and cabals

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Everyone knows the real thing to be afraid of is quicksand.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I saw a UFO at about noon when in my backyard once.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 3 points 4 months ago

Rainbows and unicorns are really scary to some. Especially of wielded by men.

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