E: this baby dicked Honda owner is laughing at the responses.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    This is far too radical.

    The Honda Civic is a reliable car with a solid price point.

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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      I love my Honda Civic!

      That was 6 years ago now. How time flies. <3

      Here’s the best feature a car can ever have.

      Kitties on the dashboard screen!!

      Here’s a more recent picture. One of the wheels had a valve stem hole that wasn’t in line with a lugnut hole, meaning the wheel covers wouldn’t fit. I bought an OEM wheel to replace it and put the wheel covers on, and it looks way better now.

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          I had an EG hatch back in the day, now a WRX. The Civic was more fun. The Subaru makes me feel grown up. Gotta do all these adult things like change the gearbox fluid when you’re actually supposed to, else the gearbox explodes like a dropped beer.

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            I miss my subie. It was a temperamental pain in the ass, but it was a good car with some good memories. 😆

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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          It’s a 2012. It’s the first year of the 9th gen so yours would have been between 06-11. Not a lot of exterior differences between 2011 and 2012, but the instrument cluster did get a pretty radical overhaul.

          • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Mine was a 2012 as well, actually :) Didnt look like that tho :) probably different markets rather than either of us being wrong :)

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            Sometimes they’ll keep making the older gen of a popular model concurrently with the first run of the newer gen, so you’ll end up with a manufacture date in the new gen’s model year. I don’t know if this has happened with Civics specifically, but it seems likely given how common they are.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      I traded up my civic for a bolt. It felt civic-minded. Cuz man i got the lemon.

      Loved that civic, but zero regrets. This ev is way better.

    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Probably why it is mentioned. It’s a very popular first car for those reasons and means there’s a damn good chance that is what will show up in the driveway. They aren’t shitting on the car in my opinion.

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      The Honda Civic is a reliable car with a solid price point.

      Yeah, that’s why carbrains hate it. A “real man” drives a huge truck rolling coal.

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      Yeah I had my (5 speed) civic till someone hit me & totalled it. Got an accord sport 6 speed and still have it, it’s 12 now and still such a joy to drive. I don’t drive much now so hopefully it lasts 12 more.

      My brother got 300k miles on his Honda.

      It’s funny, my first car had 3 gears, second one 4 gears, the Civic had 5, and this one has 6 but also the best manual transmission I have ever encountered.

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    I feel like this point could be made without insulting her daughter’s future partner

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      Yes. You can remove the exaggeration from jokes to turn them into statements and make a point.

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          That is what our patriarchy teaches us, is it not? That we must be providers and fertile to have value. It’s our role as men, no?

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            Are you saying it’s a valid argument because it’s in agreement with the patriarchy? Saying “the patriarchy teaches this” isn’t exactly a very good argument for “so we should accept it as valid and true”…

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              I really thought… I really thought I loaded that statement with so much ridiculous bullshit that you guys would all understand that I was being satirical. And poes law got me again.

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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                Satire doesn’t always convey over plaintext, as it lacks tone of voice, facial expression, and gesture. That’s why we have emojis and “/s” tags…

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        If the “joke” was about “flat-chested women who can’t cook” not being “special,” then suddenly you might be more reluctant to defend it as “humor”…

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          Oh, totally. I’m not defending the joke. It’s mid. I’m just saying that removing the exaggerated extra commentary just makes it a statement.

  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I read this comment as saying:

    1. Virginity isn’t special, so there’s no need to “save” it for someone special.
    2. The first person you have sex with doesn’t need to be anyone special. Holding out for some kind of perfect dude is impractical, because if you’re messing around with people your age, news flash, most young men are losers on the broader social scale. Being cool for a high schooler doesn’t mean much.
    3. Go ahead and fuck the dude with a cheap car and small dick. That’s not going to hold you back in the future, and chances are, your standards for partners will change over time.
    4. You can be anything. Overthrow the government.

    It seems that this comment section focuses a bit too much on the less important parts of the message, and don’t appreciate the context.

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      My only problem with this post is the implied body-shaming. Otherwise 10/10

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        I read it as referring to immaturity rather than literal body shaming. Like, the post is telling a girl it’s okay to hook up with a teenage boy from her high school who just got his first car. She doesn’t have to “save herself” for marriage or even some idealized perfect man later in life.

        I grew up in the Assemblies of God, so I was on the receiving end of a lot of purity culture messaging. There was more than a reasonable amount of discussion of how “God has chosen your perfect husband and you have to wait for him.”

        I’m definitely not on board with the body shaming if that’s how it was intended. I just see that there’s more than one way to interpret that particular phrase. I choose to go with the more figurative version, which apparently puts me in the minority.

    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
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      Part 4 is the most important.

      Kind of like a “fuck around find out”, except it’s more of a , “fuck around and systemically dismantle your oppressors” kinda thing

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    Is this implying that a horse cocked boy whose daddy bought him a fancy car could be taking something? Or are we just shaming a body type and class for comedic effect?

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    What a stupid take.

    Virginity is special because it’s your first time doing something very intense, intimiate and potentially painful and overwhelming. You need it to be with someone who cares about you so they can make it a good experience. It’s not some victorian-purity BS, it’s actually practically sound.

    • architect@thelemmy.club
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      Many of us get raped. Just look at the statistics. It’s not fucking special and pretending it is puts more value on it than it’s worth. Look at all the grown men that sit around with countdowns over young womens virginity and being legal.

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    Actual sex ed is, as usual, the answer to these kinds of situations. I’d guess way more critically so for the Civic boy than Pony’s daughter, since Pony seems open to actually discussing some shit with her daughter, especially if Civic boy actually gives a fuck about virginity.

    …oh, and guillotine construction. Definitely don’t forget the guillotine construction.

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    Let’s smash the patriarchy without classist bullshit. The implication here is that only a man with an expensive car could possibly be taken seriously as a romantic partner.

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    The concept of virginity, particularly the idea that a woman’s sexual history somehow determines her worth, was heavily shaped by patriarchal societies that used women’s sexuality as a means of controlling inheritance, marriage, and political power.

    The idea that an individual somehow becomes less of a person simply because she has had sex is absurd. A woman’s value does not diminish because someone has given her a label or because she has engaged in a perfectly ordinary human act.

    And then there is the glaring double standard. The man who had sex with her is often treated as some kind of hero, while she is supposedly diminished by the exact same act. He gets the bragging rights and the high fives; she gets judged for it.

    So apparently a man’s virginity is irrelevant, but a woman’s is supposed to be sacred. Not the person, mind you. The vagina.

    What a load of crap.

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      Though look at the bright side: with that attitude still kinda prevalent, people who hold it are more likely to show their cards early. Holding importance in someone else’s virginity can be written off as toxic insecurity.

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    ITT
    “Hey! No fair! I was a baby-dicked boy in a Honda Civic!”

    Yes, that was the point. To dress down hypermasculinity to reveal the real person you will be fucking, and then say “look honey, this dick can’t harm you existentially like all the messaging you ever received, threatened it would. It’s mostly harmless on its own. Go have fun.”

    If you don’t like that the hypothetical image of the boy had to be declawed before the girl felt safe, help fix it.