What else would you need it for?

I’ll take “broad questions that can only be answered in context” for $200 Alex.

Seriously, ask me this question on 10 different days in 10 different ways and I’ll never give the same answer.

Even in the context of your vanilla perfume hypothetical I don’t have enough information to answer. How severe a reaction, what percentage of the population is affected, where is the perfume wearer at the time, why hasn’t it been banned and/or what makes me an expert who’s opinion is worth a damn, etc etc etc?

From what little info I have on the hypothetical (either directly stated or assumed via omission), no, I wouldn’t be upset. I didn’t see anyone being harmed, the perfume wearer wasn’t doing anything illegal, I am personally unbothered by the perfume, and I’ve got my own shit to deal with.

Eta: To make this more clear, I am an ex smoker, who fully agrees that bans on smoking in public areas make sense, but am in no way personally bothered by cigarettes. I also think smoking is more apropos to the question than a mystery perfume, as the harm of smoking and 2nd hand smoke is well established.

If you are smoking on a crowded street, I’ll be upset. But in an alleyway to get away from the crowded street, good on ya, you did what you could.

Smoking near children, get fucked. Smoking while walking home from the pub when only other pub goers are around, you do you. Context is key.

derogatory slang

What did you call me!?

…but you can’t make it think

“Here at Zohran Grocers, we’re chopping prices down to size! Don’t lose your heads over these great deals!”

Oh that one, yeah… no fuckin clue. Maybe a cyberman from Dr Who, but like… wearing a suit?

I’m thinking the silhouette of a classic Area 51 style alien.

100%

Not sure I would want my company involved the top three. Bottom two for sure tho!

Don’t hate us cuz you ain’t us

Tim Sweeny! Is that you!?

It’s what it’s

Too many to count then? Me too buddy, me too.

6? ish?

Eh, posts like this give people a chance to reflect on their own relationships, and bounce their thoughts off of the internet in a relatively safe space. Half of what you are hearing is folks imprinting on the situation. Things are gonna get a little weird.

But you should at least give it the college try first, right?

Frankly, I don’t have enough information to know if this is the case. It’s certainly possible that this is a relationship well worth saving, and that the overall net benefit is worth the toxicity brought on by his insecurities. The fact that she can joke about it certainly might indicate that the relationship is a safe and comfortable space for both of them despite his controlling behavior.

It’s also hypothetically possible that she is exacerbating his insecurities by being overly flirtatious (or even flat out cheating on him) with her friends. In which case he might want to end it, as being in that situation will only reinforce his insecurities in his next relationship. (Hell, it’s possible he is cheating, and that guilty conscience is making him project his infidelities onto her.)

It’s also possible that she is not even in a relationship, and posted this simply as a joke she thought was funny.

So all things considered, the information provided only gives me enough to confidently say that trolling toxicity is pretty funny.

As far as the “correct answer here” and the value of giving it “the old college try”, that’s more between her, the hypothetical him, and maybe a therapist, and their friends, and innumerable other factors I’m not really qualified to speak on.

I mean, I completely agree that if he went about this in a non-toxic/non-controlling way, and instead clearly just wanted to protect her from legitimate threats, it would be completely different… But the funny thing about that is…

Sure, but this small window of context also still indicates that “he”:

1. Doesn’t trust her to not cheat
2. Wants to control who she can be around

Which sounds pretty toxic imho. Given that, if she wants to respond to toxicity with trolling, it certainly is pretty funny. Which seems to be the main point of the post, and the added nuance doesn’t really undermine that.

Presumably the fact that she isn’t hanging around his male friends when he is not around? Otherwise they would technically also be “her male friends”. Beyond that, he probably has more context to trust his friends.

Apples to apples would be saying they should stop hanging around his female friends, but given how he is implied to act, I would think it unlikely he has any (or at the very least they are unlikely to want to fuck him).

Though frankly, if he is worried about her male friends to the extent that he wants her to stop hanging around them, then the relationship is already on shaky ground. Because he is overly possessive and controlling, and possibly also because she really is giving him reasons to feel insecure. If it’s just the former, then her trolling his toxicity is very funny. If it’s also the latter, then… well it’s still kinda funny, but in a more mean spirited way.

So I’m not sure the nuance between the asks really changes the point of the post.

Compared to the usual game console os windows offers a A LOT of freedom

Compared to the usual jail cell, the prison yard affers A LOT of freedom, just because you personally hate prison does not make the statement any less true.