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> My favorite Tweet ever was someone who described this process that dudes do where they show up, take over a hobby, and drive all the fun out (and thus women)
by uxp100 7y ago
> My favorite Tweet ever was someone who described this process that dudes do where they show up, take over a hobby, and drive all the fun out (and thus women) as "MENTRIFICATION". It is my new favorite word.
So you think that less women ride bicycles and drink beer than 20 years ago?
- SlowRobotAhead 7y agoDefinitely the opposite. Just as OP complains about bros getting to into things like beer as their identity, maybe the fail to realize that other people make their identities about real or perceived social injustices and how awesome they are to bring them up a every chance maybe not realizing that's more annoying.
- optimuspaul 7y agoThis. I definitely see a certain culture of men that glom onto things like beer or bicycles or coding and making that their identity. It is because of this that they are seen as "Mentrifying" those hobbies. I do think that there is some risk in those groups alienating those without the same passion from becoming involved in those hobbies. In fact one of the reasons I don't golf anymore is exactly this. Golf culture is intensly insular and full of arrogant people (not to say that all are this way or maybe it has changed since I last golfed).
- meddlepal 7y agoI think the key to enjoying golf is to learn to play by yourself or play with people that aren't interested in competition. I agree "golf people" are insufferable that's why I avoid them as much as possible.
- optimuspaul 7y agototally, but hard to get a course to yourself. To be clear it isn't the people I am playing with but the others on the course at the same time.
- jcims 7y agoThere should be a scoring system for wokeness. That will really open the throttle.