I was standing on the street today when a man and woman passed me. The man was heatedly explaining to the woman about the reddit strike. I overheard him say “It’s the third largest subreddit…” and he was making hand gestures I could see as they walked past. (Which one is the third largest?)
I was half a mind to run after him and say “I want to talk to you about this! I understand!!” But I couldn’t think of what would happen next, other than ruining their evening. They seemed to be on their way to go somewhere. Hopefully to talk about something other than reddit.
That’s all. I usually never have IRL observations of reddit.
As much as I (a woman) would love to find literallyanyone else in my real life to commiserate about reddit, I can’t help but feel bad for the woman in this brief story! LOL
Also, since most of my colleagues and social contacts are women, I’ve been the person aggressively explaining and cornering them inadvertantly!
if it makes everyone feel better, these 2 people were freely walking down an open sidewalk; nobody was cornered and she appeared to be reasonably consenting to the conversation.
while I was contemplating inserting myself into their convo, them I did have a train of thought rationalizing that I would really be doing this lady a favor by providing an alternate target for this… but it wasn’t quite enough to push me past my millennial tendencies of only communicating via text. i’m sure she was fine, she either already knew what kind of guy this was, or has now learned and will make her decisions accordingly.