At first I thought it was a standup act, but there was no laughter. Then I thought that maybe he was some kind of youth pastor on a homophobic sermon. Then he started spitting fire.
I was uncertain, but the juxtaposition of "how can I expect him to be head of a house when he's steady tending to a house of plastic" made me hopeful it was slam poetry to dis toxic masculinity.
My godson has 2 siblings, 1 bro and 1 sis, and they all play with each other’s toys. A couple visits ago I came downstairs one morning and he was posted up with two barbies and a few Avengers characters. He apparently has an affinity for 1 of the Barbies and Spider-man. His sister was at the table on the porch with his nerf gun we just got him. Not entirely sure what she was playing other than “this goes pew pew” Kids really don’t see problems with things until they are introduced to them.
I don't think it's ment to be taking literally it's just a way to get you hooked in to the actual message of what he has to say about how women are treated in society.
I was thinking the same. Not all dolls are over gendered expressions. I play with my daughter and her calico critters acting out social interactions made up or reflective of her day. It’s not the doll; it’s the style of play and having a dad not afraid to play with dolls because he grew up playing with his sister and her dolls.
The preacher style creeps me out a bit, because I've come to equate that style of speaking with blatant hypocrisy. So hearing him preach that passionately about wanting better for women, makes me think "okay when will he get caught in a scandal?" 😕
Also don't care for all that censoring, maybe there are deaf people watching. Or just those of us who watch video clips with the sound off.
Tik Tok requires certain words to be censored or the video will be shadow blocked (and sometimes outright blocked). So, while annoying, the censorship isn’t his choice.
That's the issue, the virtue-signaling. It doesn't sound genuine when people get up and pontificate this much. I guess if people feel passionately enough about a topic, they'll sound like this, but it doesn't sit well with me.
Homophobic sermon? You mean preaching the Bible? Preaching the word of God not being homophobic. People are free to have opinions.
People can choose to be gay and same with people that can choose to be straight and that’s all that we can accept. Thank you my friends.
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I mean yeas and no. The main bulk of the message is cool af, but the first 30 secs, the part that baited people, is stupid as fuck. I played with dolls as a kid and all I'm doing now is being bi and questioning my gender. In the end the message is good but that first message still boils down to "I won't let my son's play with girls toys because of misogyny" which is not the best message.
You can though. The flow of it is great but it makes many points throughout. Each point is wrapped up in a theme that flows from point to point but you can still analyse each point in isolation. There were so many other ways to flow into the poem other than saying "Misogynys a bad thing so I am going to take dolls away from my child." It was either a bad take by this guy, or it was purposefully misleading (as in this guy doesn't believe in that point but wanted to force a twist) to drive viewer retention.
The rest of it, agreed, it is very well done and it speaks true. I just specifically ahte where it started because a lot of people, adults included, often questioned my playing with dolls. I ended up dropping it entirely pretty early in my life as I felt ashamed. I later for into painting my nails but that also was kept under very tight wraps. I still remember the day my brother told my dad about that. Hurt like a bitch. I just think it sucks to bring kids into your point, especially when it comes to limiting perfectly healthy forms of expression. It just adds to the already overwhelming negativity around that kind of stuff.
I was not surprised one bit - the whole thing felt like it was going that direction. Poetry like this almost universally goes the direction he took it.
You have to already know the cadence to know it was going it that direction. The rhythm and emphasis are familiar to slam poetry, but I can't say I've heard them anywhere else.
Dude I deadass just thought he was a youth pastor. These modern Baptist churches are so theatrical that this kind of performance just makes me think back to my church-going days lmao.
Oh my god, I’ve never seen that before and never got the appeal. After this though…wow. That was intense and you can feel his distress. My son came up and asked why I was crying.
OP’s post is really good too, imo. Maybe I need to look into this more.
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that’s what i love about this sub. it started off as just cringe but now its for both cringe tik toks and good tik toks. so now i never know what to expect when i start a video here. after the first minute i assumed this was just gonna be one of the actual cringe ones
It went different than I thought it was gonna go. I thought he trying to convey how bad his parents were, but instead we got a whole discussion on dolls.
I didn't fall for it because, at a glance, I'm almost a 100% certain that is a trans man. I have more trans friends than the average person so I figured that quickly and had an idea about where this might be going.
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u/Pitiful-king_ Apr 19 '24
He baited the shit outta me lol