I feel like I'm missing something super obvious

[palominocorn]

https://mobile.twitter.com/CAwkward/status/1155129388205268992

Can someone please explain this tweet to me, because all I'm seeing is generic elitist nonsense, which does not jive with the responses.

Comments

[yvannairie]

I think it's a joke about straight guy literary majors? Usually when a post is about "that guy", the joke is about people with an elevated sense of self-importance, in this case about having picked the "best" author to emulate and reference.

(I agree, though, elitism jokes often miss hard and fall straight into special interest shaming/ND shaming.)

[definitely_not_an_alb]

ohhh it took me a second, too, but I can explain.

cw for really weird, boundary-ignoring in-laws, harassment/yelling and pregnancy. There was a (bewildering, horrifying) screen cap of an r/relationship post going around a while ago about a woman who was in an ongoing argument with her significant other and his parents, because they had a weird habit of collecting mouse figurines and then roleplaying them? With 'mouse'-voices? And the OP basically made it clear to them that she doesn't care that they do it, but that she'd prefer not to participate or be 'talked to' by the mice, but instead the in-laws bullied her into accepting mouse figurines into her home, too, and involved her in the roleplaying whenever either side visited the other.
The whole thing escalated because the in-laws have a special pappmaché figurine called 'Timothy' which they consider to be their grandchild. When the OP got pregnant, they insisted the child would be their 'second' grandchild, etc. The ensuing argument (because OP was not chill with potentially having to raise her child with her in-laws imaginary grandchild/demonically possessed mouse figurine/s) apparently involved her being screamed at by her father-in-law roleplaying as Timothy the mouse.

tl;dr It's about them being mouse figurines.

[palominocorn]

What. The actual. Fucking fuck?!?!?! That's horrifying on so many levels I can't even.

Like, I roleplay my giant collection of stuffed animals with my family sometimes (okay... a lot), but if one of them said "can you not do that when talking to me, it's weird" or "I'm not in the mood for that today, let's talk like normal people" I would... not pretend to be a stuffed cow? Pretending to be a cow is not more important to me than the comfort of the people around me!