Alda Vigdís3d ago
This is your reminder that Chuck Norris was a hateful, racist ghoul.
Show threadThe Great Llama 
@alda
I'm in the age group where some of the kids I grew up with were into him. Grade school age boys are going to be into martial arts, that's just a thing, but Chuck Norris was a specific vibe. I can't prove it, but I would bet anything that a notably high percentage of these guys grew up to be Trump voters, just saying.
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Show threadobscurestar3d ago
@TheGreatLlama @alda Let's call it the 'insecure in their masculinity' vibe. That's what all those fans seemed like to me. Desperately afraid someone was going to find out they like petting puppies or something and somehow that would make their penis fall off. A more generalized term might be 'sadsacks'
Show threadThe Great Llama 3d ago

@obscurestar @alda
I hesitate to hang "sad sack" on third graders, but yeah, that's the ballpark.

Chuck seemed to be specifically the "karate guy" (terminology we used 😆) for the super Christian kids though. Also gingers, but I suppose that's understandable.

Show threadobscurestar2d ago

@TheGreatLlama @alda I am sad that I did not get into martial arts until much later in life because Norris, Van Dam, and that lot had made it seem so toxic and empty. I think I could have benefited from the meditative and body awareness aspects of it.

I guess I should have realized they treated the ideology of their teachers much like the same self-professed christians treated the word of Jesus.

Show threadThe Great Llama 2d ago
@obscurestar @alda
Yeah, US culture does specialize in missing the fucking point.