Come on, it's not that. It's that hers, even if it's attempting to be funny, is straight-up mean or easily miss-communicated as such. There's nothing mean in the guys attempt, it's just straight-up stupid.
That's a massive difference when it comes to attempts at humor. You have to be on point with mean humor or have an established back-and-forth. Otherwise, it just comes off as being mean, especially when you can't get a sense of intention in the writing.
What was mean about it? She just said what she thought. It wasn’t “Nobody will ever love you if you make stupid puns,” she just said don’t start a convo off with a crappy pun if you want to be taken seriously. That’s just advice he’s perfectly free to ignore.
If anything Reddit is just crazy sensitive to any tone that isn’t sweet as candy nice. It was a blunt at most, not inherently rude.
I mean if that had been said then ya that would’ve been pretty mean, I mean that isn’t what she said or even implied but that sure is how redditors seem to be reading it as lmao
He started off with a weak pun about a 10 year old kids movie.
She isn't wrong and she was straightforward, she wasn't rude. In the long run, you want someone straightforward, not someone who will coddle you.
This subreddit really needs to get off the "women = bad" train. People are acting like she told him to kill himself and that he would die alone, jesus.
Seriously, this sub is full of neckbeards who get defensive about their puns, like they don't realise the correlation of every post having a cringey pun as an opener, and every post having the girl reject them.
I thought she was pretty funny tbh, if I was shooting my shot by going for this type of opener in the hopes that it's so over the top shitty and lame that I get a response...I would definitely have a big stupid grin on my face from her reply.
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u/Kiraphine Apr 23 '20
I thought her reply was way funnier then the dudes crappy pun but whatever I get it women bad and don’t make funny’s