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It's an old meme, hearkening back to the heady days of Yahoo Answers. Essentially, it's a reminder that 50% of the population are of below-average intelligence.
Specifically, this question was asked:
And this was one of the many replies which popped up midway through the thread, which somehow turned towards infanticide:
Explaining the joke somewhat devalues it.
I would have preferred that you were hitting the sauce early. The real thing is much more disconcerting.
It's become almost passé to talk about how mental illness is becoming not merely normalized, but in some circles actually cherished as a virtue. Increasingly, we see younger folks publishing a list of their self-diagnosed mental illnesses right alongside their pronouns and the acronyms of the various anti-capitalist / anti-liberty organizations which they idolize as part of their bio.
So it actually takes a lot to get me to notice something new in this genre.
I've come across a couple of different articles from second-tier sources talking about this one specific story.
Background: apparently, there's a dating app called Hinge, which specifically targets a younger crowd. Their pitch is that, unlike Tinder, they focus on building long term connections rather than serving as a hookup engine.
And, as such companies do, they recently published a forward-looking piece of research entitled "The Biggest Dating Deal Breaker in 2022," which I assume is one of those things that'll eventually show up as clickbait. I've been trying to find a source for the original publication, but all I can come up with are stories which summarize it and quote excerpts from it. Might be that it's only available to users of the service...
Anyway, to quote from one such article:
A new study from Hinge, entitled "The Biggest Dating Deal Breaker in 2022," found that an overwhelming number of daters now consider mental health – their own and their potential partner's – a top priority. In the past, the subject was a massive taboo, something you might be ashamed to open up to a spouse about, but that stigma seems to be fading, fast. Consider some of the findings:
• 91% of Hinge singles would prefer to date someone who goes to therapy — and you're more likely to get a second date if you mention going to therapy on a first date.
• 89% of Hinge users say they are more likely to go on a second date with someone who mentioned on the first date that they go to therapy, yet only 8% feel comfortable bringing up therapy on the first date.
That's... interesting.
Again, second-hand, unverifiable data from questionable sources. But one of those sources, at least, was USA Today, a newspaper which I've at least heard of, notwithstanding that they've become tabloid-adjacent.
I honestly would not have expected "He / she goes to therapy" to be that big of a turn-on for people.
I mean, there's some element of virtue-signaling in responding to a survey that way. But it seems that a bridge has been crossed when it becomes not just socially acceptable, but actually virtuous, to send that signal in the first place.
If what you say is 100% true, it's still symptomatic of a social illness, and a weakness of spirit.
Originally Posted by hornetball
Can even a WASP male be a virtuous victim if they go to therapy?
Well, you'd have to drop the "P" from that moniker, but otherwise, I see no reason why not. Just be traumatized by all of the many available boogeymen.
A man is denied the right to compete in womans' sports? Trauma.
Someone says that censorship is bad and literature should not be banned from libraries? Trauma.
A white guy is killed by another white guy while burning down a business owned by a family of color in protest against violence against people of color? Trauma.
Someone says that it's not OK to selectively erase history? Trauma.
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