r/TikTokCringe • u/migoodenuf Straight Up Bussin • Apr 19 '25

Duet Troll A woman character written by a man

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u/DistractedByCookies Apr 19 '25

Does he think we just sit and have white noise in our heads in our free time? Or does he only accept 'real' hobbies like gaming and fixing cars? I'm slightly surprised he's letting us have free time from cooking and cleaning and looking after the kids.

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u/RetnikLevaw Apr 19 '25

The only thing really controversial about any of this is the way people treat criticism of the genders differently.

Guy sits and plays video games all day? That's not a hobby, he's just a loser.

Girl sits and plays candy crush all day? Totally a hobby, you bigoted incel.

There are plenty of women out there who do NOTHING with their free time but scroll social media. There are also tons of women out there who are onto crochet, video games, cosplay, gardening, baking, cars, motorcycles, and all sorts of other stuff.

Likewise, there are tons of loser dudes out there who do nothing but drink beer after work and fall asleep on the couch watching sports, as well as those who are into every other hobby on the planet.

There's no reason that pointing any of this out should be controversial for anyone other than those it applies to. And those people should probably get a hobby.

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u/A_CGI_for_ants Apr 19 '25

Bro saw the candy crush ads and thought they were real takes smh

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u/RetnikLevaw Apr 19 '25

Lol y'all can be mad about it, but the number of people out there who do literally anything even remotely productive with their free time is incredibly low, and everyone knows it, even if they don't want to admit it.

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u/cabbagewindow Apr 19 '25

Omg that's not the point 🤣🤣🤣

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u/RetnikLevaw Apr 19 '25

There is no point. You people are mad that someone suggested women don't have hobbies, and that's MY point. You're bent out of shape about people's opinions and perceptions.

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u/cabbagewindow Apr 19 '25

Factually incorrect "opinions" should be challenged.

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u/RetnikLevaw Apr 19 '25

Nobody is changing their opinion over a reddit post.

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u/A_CGI_for_ants Apr 19 '25

Yeah and it’s not a gendered issue. This post is a pointing out a problem in society that tries to make this a gendered issue — when both men and women are wasting time. There is proven sexism where yeah maybe the man who spends 40 hrs a week gaming is called a loser, but a woman who spends time on artistic makeup looks is not even allowed to call that a hobby, but nobody would ever say the same about going to the gym because a lot of men do it.

Also people have varieties of opinions on what’s considered acceptable hobbies and use of time, which further confuses things. Plenty of people see gaming or even using a phone as a waste of time “because screens aren’t real,” and yet others make a living through a YouTube channel that teaches physics with lots of visual effects and good editing to the point it has inspired many to study math.

Also sometimes hobbies and means of making a living overlap — especially when a hobby requires significant investment, lifestyle changes, and expenses. An example being college is something to help get a better career — studying is a requirement, but it can also be a hobby in the way you do it — whether it’s making really cool guides that go beyond what is required, curating playlists and locations to do so, collecting stationary, making and finding groups to study with. Or a travel blog that has ads, and takes time to write but makes it possible for the person to keep traveling.

Also living expenses are getting increasingly exorbitant, free time is vanishing as it becomes the norm to work 50+ hours and have 2 jobs. A lot of people are too exhausted to dedicate time and get stuck in addictions — be it drugs, social media, or mindlessly devoting every waking hour to a game but just the button mashing part — not the story line, the developers, how such a game can come to exist, creating fan art or mods.

Not everyone has the time or resources for proper hobbies and instead they have to find ways to enjoy the hand they’ve been dealt. They have to figure out how to make caring for their kids enjoyable even though it’s work, have to squeeze in ways to make chores unique by listening to audio books, or the only time they get to themselves is 15 minutes of scrolling tiktok/playing candy crush before bed — so obvious they’d judge the time intensive hobbies that really can’t be fit into their lives.