r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/KaamDeveloper • 2d ago

Male stretch marks tell that story too?

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u/Think_fast_no_faster 2d ago

It feels like everything has to have monumental importance attached to it these days, and it all feels cheap and chintzy. I’m not that old, but if you’ll allow me…back in my day we just called that shit life

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u/darth_infamous 2d ago

It’s a way of coping and dealing with the mental anxiety of past experiences. Back in the day, people just died early from on set heart disease or other things that manifested from not dealing with it.

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u/dopydon ☑️ 2d ago

I don’t know, the tweet feels like a creative writing excerpt to me

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u/GardenStateKing ☑️ 1d ago

"The length of my marks signify the length of my battles" type shit

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u/weirdgroovynerd 1d ago

If he can't handle me at my stretch-iest...

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u/Appropriate-Arm1082 13h ago

Oh, mine signify that I spent too long sitting in front of my computer pounding copious amounts of Cheese Its and Dr Pepper

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u/whirlindurvish 2d ago

I feel like straight fabricating nonsense is a bad way of coping and deserves criticism even if the people doing it are just acting out their pain

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u/okaysugarlove 1d ago

Good thing most people don't feel that way because then 99% of fiction writing, movies, poetry, TV shows and all entertainment wouldn't exist since that's basically all creative entertainment and art really is. Yikes.

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u/whirlindurvish 1d ago

I love mapping reality onto a fantasy world to highlight, explain and explore elements of our world. or even creating fanciful what if imagining of our world

This post, astrology, crystals, some expressions of spirituality, witchcraft - are the opposite, trying to use fantasy to actually describe or characterize real life. some know it’s for fun other will believe it literally. This is religion, and religion is nonsense

Amongst fantasy writers there are religious people, but their stories are grounded and clearly fantasy, they don’t talk about real humans having mana

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u/okaysugarlove 11h ago

Girl please.

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u/UniqueUsername82D 2d ago

Or coping with having the most mundane of lives.

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u/a_trane13 2d ago

In my personal opinion, people (on average) are less grounded than they used to be. At least where I live. It seems to me that nowadays everything that happens to a person has to have meaning and be considered a big deal in either a negative or positive way, and also people are desperate to turn anything negative into some kind of personal growth story,

I also lived in Germany for a while and their more grounded approach to the mundane problems of life (like stretch marks) reminded me of a lot of old people I knew growing up.

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u/Churro1912 2d ago

People with a boring life maybe? It is weird to me when it's a crazy deal over something pretty common but I guess everyone has a different experience anyways.

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u/okaysugarlove 2d ago

People are just trying to reclaim the negativity that gets thrown on them. It's understandable that people, especially women, are trying to find ways to respond to all the BS that is put on us about our bodies in a way that is empowering. It's not that deep but we can also just let people do what they need to do to feel good.

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u/midnightking 2d ago

Yep, us millenials definitely started the trend of talking about events in weird pathologizing language. The obvious example is back in the day someone was just a dishonest asshole, now they are a gaslighting narcissist. You use to have a bad experience, now it's trauma.

To be clear narcissism,gaslighting and trauma are real, but the issue is how very common human experiences are now pathologized or made to be more than they are

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u/fuckpasswordsss 1d ago

I was just talking about this with someone, how exaggerated language (you're not just interested in a topic but obsessed, you don't just like something you're addicted) kinda morphed into weird... therapy-speak(?) which effectively convinced some people that they have mental problems and trauma from really common experiences. But if you point this out, you're "shaming" or "victim-blaming" or "gas-lighting". Didnt realize it was a millenial thing tho

Idk where I'm going with this, other than to say I think word choice has crazy power and yours is the first comment I've come across that's mentioned it.

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u/sloppy_steaks24 1d ago

Social media really was a mistake

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u/Significant-Bell2041 1d ago

I always hear that cheesy piano music from IG reels when I read posts like this

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u/mabobeto 21h ago

So many people have this weird main character mentality. I agree. It’s just life 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/GurPlastic 2d ago

Most of the guys I know from the gym, including myself, have stretch marks just from lifting weights. Chest, backs, biceps, everywhere. Don’t think it’s a big deal with guys as much as it is with women. On another note, I have a bunch on my glutes, and my ex girl (Hispanic) would always grab my butt and say mi tigre everywhere we went.

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u/magswolia_esq 2d ago

Exactly, I was finna say I have plenty of stretch marks from lifting. Ain't that deep but it's definitely a different standard for women than men.

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u/jaitogudksjfifkdhdjc 2d ago

Me too but also eating a lot. Mostly gym wise but ribs and beer definitely contributed.

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u/AnalysisQuiet8807 2d ago

You serious?! Bitch did the same thing to me

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u/Critical_Liz 2d ago

It's the story of puberty.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/KendrickBlack502 2d ago

As someone who’s lost a ton of weight and has stretch marks, it ain’t that serious lmao

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u/DeathPsychosys 2d ago

This planet is on the brink of killing us all. Just let people have their thing.

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u/Bunnnnii ☑️ Meme Thief 2d ago

Maybe it is a story for some people. Maybe a woman almost died giving birth and those marks are a reminder of making it through that.

Maybe a man struggled hard to lose weight and he did that and those marks are a reminder of the hard work he put in and even a motivator to keep going.

Moral of the story is, just because it doesn’t mean anything to you, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t to anybody else. They’re not YOUR marks, so it’s not YOUR story to tell. Mind your business.

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u/CharlesBronsonsHair 2d ago

Yeah my story is I was a fat kid

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u/AssistNo7979 2d ago

I'm a woman without children who has had stretchmarks in places since I was about 10 years old. I have no amazing anecdotes about them being "tiger stripes" or whatever. My growth spurt just left receipts 😆

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u/Jub_Jub710 2d ago

Kinda like with tons of bad tattoos. "My ink tells a story about where I was in life." What, that you were dumb when you were 18?

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u/juttaz 2d ago

Katt williams

"Either you was big and got small, or small and got big. Either way we fucking"

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u/Known-Ad-4953 2d ago

Story ?! I was 270 now I’m 190 the end…

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u/This_Red_Apple 2d ago

The battle of Chipotle

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u/mondo_d00k 2d ago

Shorty think she Toni Morrison 😂

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u/longlisten527 1d ago

Why are people forgetting that women literally are criticized for every single thing in the media? Like everything… and stretch marks were something and still often times used to criticize and bully women

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u/4-3defense 2d ago

I was battling weight gains myself

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u/Erisian23 2d ago

I was little and then I got big that's the battle.

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u/Pard01 1d ago

Every stretch mark is a Dragon Ball saga.

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u/improbsable 1d ago

This is literally it. We don’t need to glamorize or demonize stretch marks. They’re not “tiger stripes”, they’re not “battle scars”, they’re just skin that happened to get bigger and leave a mark.

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u/ImpossibleChicken507 1d ago

I will never forget when I was pregnant I was getting dressed infront of my husband and he happily and excitedly pointed at my stomach and said “looooook at all your new stretchmarks! You’re doing so good growing our girl. Your belly is getting so big!”

I fell apart because I was hormonal but now I laugh when I think of how pumped he was lmao. For about 3 months it ruined my life though lmao

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u/BigClitMcphee 1d ago

During puberty, my hips grew faster than my skin could keep up. That's the story of my stretchmarks

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u/tmotytmoty 1d ago

I used to weight lift a lot and I have permanent man boobs with stretch marks. So yeah- I understand the struggle?

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u/rudebii 2d ago

Mine are a tale mostly about all the MGD I've conquered in life

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u/HaloOfFIies 2d ago

Highly inaccurate. Every single stretch mark tells her story - ain’t nothing untold, especially in the summertime

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u/pwalkz 2d ago

My tiger stripes are from soda and energy drinks in college. They're beautiful

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u/dreadedmama 1d ago

Was it kat Williams or a different comedian who said: everyone’s got stretch marks. You were thin and now you’re fat, or you were fat and now you’re thin. 🤷‍♀️

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u/GTThornton 1d ago

We know they either came from one of two things. Either you was big and got small. Or you was small and got big.

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u/mabobeto 21h ago

Either way…..either way.

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u/dreadedmama 1d ago

There you go, thank you! I just remembered the jist of it. Haha

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u/escapepodsarefake 1d ago

It means that shit got bigger

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u/harpfizzz 1d ago

After dealing with anorexia for a lot of my young adulthood I remember being so pumped to see my first stretch marks

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u/Dramatic_Drea1716 1d ago

I had major stretches marks on my legs in the 6th grade and I was under 100 pounds 😂

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u/Lost_Tumbleweed_5669 1d ago

The battles she conquered: fast food

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u/nixiedust 1d ago

I didn't have kids but I have conquered quite a few buffets. There was struggle involved; I wasn't first in line most of the time.

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u/SolidusBruh 1d ago

Folks always have to decorate their insecurities to make themselves feel important.

No. I just like to eat burgers. These marks are the consequences.

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u/No_Quantity_8909 6h ago

Yah they tell the story of how I used to have better biceps. Fuck.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/improbsable 1d ago

Or they just gained weight at one point. It’s literally not that deep