*'What a weird period of time they lived in.'*

Future historians:

"You can tell this dates to the early 21st century not because of all the pfas & microplastics, but by the event AI slop."

I didn’t mean that women get made fun of for getting hair transplants, I was trying to illustrate how one is a much more common trope than the other.

I’m not sure what the rest of your comment is meant to address. If it is merely to inform me that men also get made fun for plastic surgery, then don’t worry I’m aware which is why I used phrases like

The societal pressure to look a certain ideal is much higher on women than on men

and

the ridicule women receive for surgeries done is disproportionally higher

Note that the “higher” keyword explicitly acknowledges that it exists for men as well.

If it is meant to say that jokes about people getting plastic surgery being dumb are fine since they target men too then see the rest of my comment. Plus that they don’t target men as much as they do women. Making fun of the “dolled up bimbo” is a much more common trope than of men.

I’ll have to check them out! Didn’t even know they came from comics!

Not just women, but also wamen and wumen as well.

I just find it funny that younger people feel instantly targeted when it’s about their phones. I mean, I use my phone all the time as well, but I’m still honest enough to admit how ridiculous this whole phone situation is.

Yeah but the specific joke here wouldn’t work so well with hair transplants. Pretty sure they’ll decompose with the rest of the body right?

Way beyond my knowledge base to even speculate. The NPS website has a bit of info on how fossils form, and the important bit seems to be that the material has pores which mineral carrying water can flow through. The site does mention that softer tissues like cartilage can undergo permineralization as well, but… Silicones are pretty permeable to gas, but fairly impermeable to liquids. They’d probably lose the bits that ‘decayed’ from the outside in, instead of the permineralization happening throughout as the material decays.

It’s probably the 2 decades of constant deluge of lame memes making fun of us and endless news articles on how we used our phones too much

It’s not hard to do when literally 90% of people, young and old, are buried in their phone each and every day you go to work on public transportation, many of them with this stupid smile on their faces they exchange silly things with their loved ones. I find it so fascinating and pretty funny to witness, so it’s easy to make a joke about.

And then I realize that I’m on my phone as well. At least not while I’m walking, I just can’t do it. I have keep an eye out and dodge those that do, haha.

If you think I’m exaggerating, come walk around here for a bit!

I dont think I understand your point? Or what you are trying to say, like no archaeologists wouldn’t find hair transplants like that and therefore…?

Edit: and i think even if inaccurate it would work just as well as a “joke”, note all the impossibilities in the current picture. Her nails, how she’s holding her phone, the breast implants at the exact location and so on

Ah,yes

Just so you know: Alpha men exist too, and there are Penis extensions. So its not Mysoginy, its just Societal assholery, and since we live in a patriarchy, this „society” is mostly Men.

Addressed in a different comment https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/16276054

The boomers that have embraced technology probably have equal screentime or more since they are retired.

I think the critique sometimes does apply to the younger gen though because a Boomer has had both life with and without phones and can reflect on that and also solve issues outside of the phone realm because that’s how they experience life prephone era.

For example if a young trainee struggles with software, and I ask what they are waiting on, they will say I emailed the vendor last week, just waiting for a reply, whereas the Boomer dude calls the vendor the next day if the email didn’t get a response, and speaks to a person directly and gets an answer sooner.

And thus we have those memes of a young persons phone ringing and them sweating and horrified that their buddy just called them out of the blue.

I don’t think you’re a misogynist, but I think the picture can certainly come off that way. Here are a few reasons why:

1. It’s misrepresentative. Silicone lip implants are not common and obviously never that big. No woman has these; it’s an exaggeration that has the effect of equating women with something ridiculous that doesn’t exist. (The common injectable lip fillers are temporary and don’t remain long after death.)

2. No one else gets to decide for someone else what makes any procedure – and in this case breast augmentation – valid vs fake. Breast cancer survivors, trans people, and other patients getting reconstruction to live happy full lives would rightfully have something to say if you are implying that part of them is fake.

We all alter our bodies in all kinds of ways, both temporary and permanent, in an attempt to look and feel better about ourselves.

3. The picture focuses only on depicting a woman, even though men get calf implants, veneers, nose jobs, chin implants, etc. The image isn’t being fair or insightful, but it is ridiculing and criticizing women who are different in certain ways; these are ways that men are different too, making the message hypocritical.

I appreciate the respectful nature of the discussion and hope it continues.

Its a stereotype like any other joke.

But funniest things I have seen is where people dependent on tech, lack general awareness skills.

There was a girl dropped off to meet a friend in our suburb, the friend was outside but a different area less than 100 feet away. They had their heads down texting each other what looked like “where you at?” “I’m over here” type Convo, and could have been using a location type app.

They wandered around, crossing the street, and walking up and down missing each other, until they eventually were heading directly toward each other and would have collided. They could have saved a few minutes by just looking up and doing a head swivel.

I also saw the same with a Skip-the-Dishes guy on foot following his app to deliver the bag of food, he was half a house off location and going up on the wrong porch, and the lady is out on her porch saying that’s mine, your are delivering over here. He was adimant he had to drop it per the app location, and went off the other way.

So I said dude forget the GPS location , what is the house number, he gave me the number, and I said that’s that house with the lady on the porch, see the numbers on the post over her porch. Then a light bulb went off for him.

But as a balanced bash against boomer generation, my mom thinks WiFi comes through the AC cord to her laptop, and will not accept my explanation of WiFi

man can’t get breast implants and lip fillers and nails and phone apparently

Yes this meme is a clever subversion of gender stereotypes and not meant as a reinforcement thereof

I sure had a lot of fun watching it though

Just that I think you guys are reading too much into it. I’m pretty sure the joke doesnt need to go much further than “imagine digging that up on a history dig”

Lol. I love that this was(/is?) a way to verify if it’s a bot writing.

In a way, it’s a badge of honor to have some of your content be questioned.