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Privilege Denying Gal - Brunette
[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style color split with pink and blue alternating. Foreground: White woman wearing a plain white t-shirt with long brown hair. Her arms are folded over her chest and she has an incredulous expression.
Top text: “Sometimes my boyfriend and I like to be lazy and lounge around in bed all day.” Bottom text: “It’s called spooning.”]Not verbatim, but one of my “friends” basically said this to me. I just can’t believe someone would have the gall to appropriate spoon theory like that, and then even go on to imply that the only reason people might not get out of bed is that they’re lazy, not that they might not be lucky enough to have the privilege of good health. It’s almost enough to make me lose faith in humanity.
You do know that the term “spooning” or cuddling has been around since 1831, right? And The Spoon Theory has only been around since 2010, right?
wait but no that hold up i i mean it’s no, yeah, what the fuck
AHAHA WHAT THIS CANNOT BE REAL SERIOUSLY THIS CANNOT BE A REAL THING THIS HAS TO BE A TROLL
Yes… that’s the point. Spooning is cuddling, and the Spoon Theory is an analogy used by people who have chronic...
This makes me so confused because “Spooning” has always meant cuddling to me….so it seems to me that this “Spoon Theory”...
i am torn between laughing hysterically and sobbing
Oh my god no wait I can’t HOW HAVE THEY NEVER HEARD THE TERM SPOONING BEFORE
Wait, but— … wait, but—
this real though
?????????????? i am so confused is it bad to call spooning spooning because of spoon theory
Really though? Is it?
*facepalm* *faaaaaacepaaaaalm* I groaned. This has to be a troll.
I actually had to Google “spoon theory”. Learned something new today. I’ve never really understood the whole “privilege”...
um. i don’t get this. especially the OPs outrage that someone said this to them. who hasn’t said this phrase in their...