• JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    Please give an example what kind of human this is satirizing. Otherwise I’m kinda lost.

    Edit: Oh wait I thought of an example. Some military veterans really flaunt it. They make it their whole personality.

    While the rest of us military veterans never even mention it and no one would ever know we were in the military. So when we see veterans wearing all their regalia and embroidered caps & acting like karens etc, it’s implicitly understood that they are just attention-seeking narcissists, and there’s nothing anyone can do to change their personalities, we’re just expected to honor & respect veterans. It’s weird propaganda and a grift.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 days ago

      I think it could be quite a few types of people - anyone who takes some part of their identity and is either overly-performative about it or makes it their whole personality.

      Like, there are regular veterans and then there are veterans who maybe enjoy the parades a bit too much. Or, I’ve occasionally heard grumblings from an average gay guy about extra gay guys. Or, like how an average black person in the 1970s might have been looking at the actors in those “Blaxploitation” movies of that era.

      edit: Oh! Or how all the other Klingons on Star Trek look at Worf, like “dude, you could tone it down a little”