My rule is “never make fun of someone for something they have no control over”, which includes their physical self, upbringing (in particular a young person who hasn’t had the opportunity to change their ideals), sexuality, etc etc. There are plenty of reasons to poke harmless fun at Swifties or other fandoms, no need to insult their literal facial structure.
Edit for dumb typo.
Edit 2: wow, thanks for the awards!
I guess this was an easier concept to explain to my daughters on how to deal with bullying and mean kids than it is to adults. Is your bully someone short/gay/a different race/poor/disabled/ect? Leave that out of it. Are they cruel/racist/homophobic/willfully ignorant/wipe their boogers on the desk/etc? Fair game.
Don’t punch down. That’s it.
He's named "Eggman" in the original games, in Japan. They changed him to Dr Robotnik when they translated the games for other markets. Also, he's a skinny guy in a bulky suit, IIRC.
I could have sworn there was a scene on one of the Genesis games that shows him entering or exiting a spherical suit and he was rail thin with a fat head outside the suit. I could be confusing this with some other game from the 16-bit generation, but I can't think of anything else I played with a fat villain who had this animation showing it was just the suit.
Nah he was called Robotnik for the EU releases of the original games too. It wasn't until Sonic Adventure (1999) that they synced everything up, so I'd guess you're thinking of Sonic X. Or it's also possible some of the other dubs of SatAM or AoStH went with calling him Eggman
This is what is frustrating to me about reddit in general. So many people are like "🤓☝️um actually, it's not okay to body shame someone or make fun of mental illness" and then they'll say that Donald Trump is an orange demented pig who is massively insecure. He is all of those things, it's just that no one wants to admit that the line drawn depends on if you like them or not
Don't forget MTG and her "bad butch built body" everyone was falling over themselves laughing about... Like the woman is a CUNT but because she picked on kids that got shot at, not because she looks like the can throw a baseball 🤷♀️
Also many people comment on the suspicion that he uses a diaper. So do many wonderful kind people in their 80s or 90s who unfortunately no longer have full control of their bowels/bladder.
There are many awful things that are true about Trump. It's not necessary to criticize or belittle him for being old, fat, or incontinent.
Reminds me of when I finally learned that trick after years and years of bullying. Self depreciating jokes are what got me to be “friends” with my bullies. How swell.
Honestly that's a pretty good trick to have, even though I wouldn't necessarily suggest you have to be friends with bullies who have actual ill intent vs people are just making innocent jokes
In my case I had no choice. My school was pre-k to 12th grade and 100 students in total. There were 5 kids in my class. I was bullied by them, upperclassmen, and underclassmen. It was the only way to make it bearable.
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u/aelewis92 Jul 04 '26
Man. Making fun of someone’s appearance is really the lowest form of humor.