• frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    68
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    7 months ago

    It’s funny how cosplaying is seen as this weird niche nerdy activity… unless it’s as an athlete.

    Although, having said that, we do have the term ‘full kit wanker’ in the UK, for anyone who buys the whole kit (not just the t-shirt, scarf or hat). Because, you see, there’s an acceptable quantum of cosplaying.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      7 months ago

      If I told people I planned to sit around for hours on a weekend watching TV, they’d call me lazy.

      If I told them I was watching sports, they’d ask me what team I liked.

      • Moneo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        7 months ago

        If I told people I planned to sit around for hours on a weekend watching TV, they’d call me lazy.

        Pretty sure this stopped being true a decade ago.

          • EatATaco@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            7 months ago

            And you don’t need to go any further than this thread to see some folks frown upon watching sports too.

    • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      7 months ago

      Wearing a jersey/scarf is more about showing which “tribe” you’re part of though. Going full kit is a bit different as it’s excessive.

      • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        True. But I think if I wore, like, a Star Trek comm badge, that’d raise more questions than if I wore an Arsenal t-shirt!

        • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          7 months ago

          One thing has shaped communities and defined cultures for a century and the other thing is a science fiction show. It’s really not comparable in my opinion.

          • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            7 months ago

            Maybe for soccer, but the above statement could apply to basketball, ice hockey, and football and those have only been around about 2.5 times longer than trek.

            • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              7 months ago

              It bleeds over though, they are all team sports. Just like Europeans grow up with their local football teams being celebrated, Americans grow up with their franchises being celebrated.

    • cozy_chameleon@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      7 months ago

      Yeah I’m a cosplayer and a sports fan. It’s weird. They’re really cousin hobbies. Both dressing up in appreciation and support of some pop culture “team”—usually that we had nothing to do with creating.

  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    60
    arrow-down
    17
    ·
    7 months ago

    These women just can’t understand that men dress and play sports for themselves, not to impress women.

    😤😤😤

    Another estrogen filled rant from the woman-splaining fem-ocracy!

  • Thrashy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    7 months ago

    My wife once asked me with a straight face if I had any “football cosplay shirts” and while it took me a minute to figure out what she meant, I couldn’t argue with her terminology.

  • Liz@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    7 months ago

    Hey do you guys remember when I was super good at sports in the past? Wasn’t that great? I bet I could have been even better if coach had let me play in that key game. Then, everyone would have seen how good I was and I would have got to play more!

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    36
    arrow-down
    22
    ·
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    Women are so funny with their designer clothes and handbags, “I’m just like my favorite singer/actress!” haha, sure you are, lil princess 😀

    Getting their nails done is hilarious, like aww, you gonna go change the way your hand operates so you can have your fun-time 3 inch long plastic shit gatherers? better show them off at the grocery store! 😜

    • Wanderer@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      7 months ago

      Spending money on activities and on community is vastly better than spending it on non essential things and I’ll die on this hill.

      • Liz@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        7 months ago

        You can’t act like there’s a substantial difference between the former and the later. It’s mostly a matter of opinion which things are trivialities and which things are important for happiness and community.

        • Wanderer@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          7 months ago

          People that research happiness say that experiences are more important than things and that community is also important for happiness. So there is a difference empirically.

          • Liz@midwest.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            7 months ago

            My point was more that there’s a lot of individual variation in terms of what things count for what category and even whether they’re enjoyable or not. You would have to pay me to go to a screamo concert. Other people would greatly enjoy the experience. Furthermore, at a certain point, you have to diversify the things you do. You can’t spend 100% of your free time strengthening your relationships, sometimes you gotta just buy some candy and eat it.

    • Lizardking27@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      27
      ·
      7 months ago

      My dude its a funny post on the internet. Unlike your comment, which was just hateful and vitriolic.

      Bet you’re fun at parties.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    Why are furries looked down upon but people who dress in fursuits at sporting events viewed as figures of fun?

          • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            7 months ago

            I think it’s the same energy a lot of furries bring to participation in their community to be honest. I have met a lot of asexual furries who basically just want to be a mascot they just don’t have a school or sports team.

            That or they want to be a big stuffed toy who can cuddle with friends in a big non-sexual pile. Probably something to do with abstracted intimacy… Something like most people don’t look at animals sexually so for some their fursonas are at least as much about avoiding being looked at in a sexualized fashion which they experience regularly out of costume.

            Part of my situation being a part of the asexual community back in the early 2000’s was a lot of people coming to the concensus strangely independantly that I am some sort of leopard fursona. I went to one con back around 2006 to see what it was about and while the sexual fetish component was present in side booths it doesn’t seem like the costumes themselves are supposed to be sexy - More like individuals become notorious for their personality and confidence through character acting which is something more like mime… So basically just mascotting but doing it to hype your own brand rather than aerving someone elses? I think they definitely are doing it for notoriety, attention and recognition but not quite the sexual kind. The fetish stuff seemed to be about as much of a thing as hentai anime porn and overtly sexy cosplay is to the anime fandom and convention scene.

      • thorbot@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        7 months ago

        What you don’t realize is that in this picture, the mascot is fully penetrating this man’s face pussy

  • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    I don’t sports. All the men I know who sports seem to be very invested. Its cool though, I politics.

      • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        I jersey for sure. I’ll put my local shirt on wherever. I’ll wear my shirt for any walks or endorsements for candidates at the union hall.

        Yes, I’ll wear my politics, if that’s what you were saying.

  • Lad@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    I wear my Arsenal FC tops with pride. Although I don’t get names put on the back. I fucking love football