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A Woman Whose Husband Isn't Allowed To See Boobs In Movies, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
A Woman Whose Husband Isn't Allowed To See Boobs In Movies, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Including someone who takes their Diet Coke habit far too seriously.
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Every day, somebody says or does something that earns them the scorn of the internet. Here at Digg, as part of our mission to curate what the internet is talking about right now, we rounded up the main characters on Twitter from this past week and held them accountable for their actions.



This week's Main Characters include a Diet Coke obsessive, someone with strong feelings about British plugs and a woman whose husband cannot, under any circumstances, see Florence Pugh's breasts.



Thursday

Ro Khanna

The character: Ro Khanna, Dem. US Rep from CA's 17th District, guy who loves a slow and satisfying vindication

The plot: Khanna commented on the recently concluded Republican presidential primary debate, and his tweet about Vivek Ramaswamy caught everyone's attention.

"A slow but satisfying vindication," Khanna wrote after calling Ramaswamy an example of "Obama’s vision for a multiracial democracy" that is "seeping into our politics despite the intense backlash."



The repercussion: There is no glory in clowning a public official, especially America’s finest. But how can people resist when they make it so easy? Khanna's take was weird, and people tried to tell him that.



Adwait Patil



Sunday

Bailey Herde

The character: Bailey Herde, writer, juice enthusiast, service worker

The plot: Herde, a writer and presumably a service worker, tweeted her feelings about patrons who refuse to engage in even the smallest amount of small talk at her job.

“Can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked up to a table at work and said ‘how are you doing today’ only to be met with complete silence and a blank stare,” she wrote.



The repercussion: This take was a reasonable one — but some of the replies weren’t. While it’s hard to ignore mean comments on Twitter nowadays, majority of the responses were in solidarity with OP’s tweet and shared a similar sentiment.



Adwait Patil




Sunday

Darsam

The character: Darsam, French Twitter user, plug enthusiast

The plot: As an American, I don't quite understand the thousands of years of hatred between France and the UK. If it’s akin to Michigan vs. Ohio State, or Yankees vs. Red Sox, then I kinda get it. But with one single tweet, we got an entire timeline of plug and socket discourse, about the differences between chargers that go into a wall. Here in the US, they’re round, while apparently they’re flat in some European places. It’s no big deal, but to this Twitter user? The biggest deal of all time.



The repercussion: Why did they have to bring Brits into this? Our resident Brit and super editor Darcy flagged this OMC candidate and now I get the duty and honor of having to sift through all of these tweets. Apparently the French equivalent of the plug is even worse. Who knew! I’ve never been to Europe.

But, to summarise, British plugs have a lot of defenders! Good to know.



Jared Russo



Sunday

Diet Coke lady

The character: Ally Shapiro’s friend, Diet Coke lover, Euro traveler, bad packer

The plot: Americans in Europe is a genre in itself, but TikToker Ally Shapiro’s friend unlocked a new level of FOMO by packing a full suitcase of Diet Coke, claiming that they have Coke Zero and Light there, but no Diet.



The repercussion: Obscene food and beverage TikTok content has had its moments, and people are slightly more aware of the trolls nowadays, but it’s safe to say that this one caught everyone by surprise.



Adwait Patil



Sunday

@thatsnotlove

The character:@thatsnotlove, TikTok user, person with issues around nudity

The plot: “Oppenheimer” discourse is back! And this time, it’s about Florence Pugh’s boobs.

On Sunday, a Twitter user shared a video in which TikTok user @thatsnotlove detailed her experience watching the movie in the cinema with her husband. She explained that she and her husband discussed the film’s nude scenes beforehand and made a plan, and that when a naked Pugh appeared on screen, her husband would close his eyes and put his head on her shoulder.



The woman’s TikTok account, which is now private, reportedly focuses on explaining why porn is bad and why husbands watching it basically amounts to cheating. While the whole thing is super weird and cringe, it’s also obviously very unhealthy to feel betrayed by your husband seeing breasts in a movie, and I feel bad for both people in this couple.


The repercussion: People’s reactions were basically, “what the f—k?”. Some people also pointed out the irony of being offended by boobs in a film about the creation of the most destructive weapon mankind has ever known.



Darcy Jimenez



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Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, featuring a sports-brained guy who wants a "coachable" wife, someone who lets their pet leech eat them and an NYT journalist who's seriously lacking awareness.

Comments

  1. Mark P 1 month ago

    He also puts his foot in the toilet and pees down his leg to keep from waking her up in the middle of the night.

  2. Lee Harrington 1 month ago

    I would just like to point out :- Florence Pugh does not have boobs. She has titties.

  3. Craig List 1 month ago

    How telling that we all rush to dunk on this young couple without taking a second to think about what's being said. The husband is triggered by nudity, and instead of questioning the root psychological cause of the pathology, we can't wait to show how clever we are, cruelty be damned. It's fun to make sport of someone who is traumatized, possibly because of early sexual abuse, right? So fun to not consider anything past our own emotional reaction to someone having a trauma reaction that we refuse to understand. But then, division and cruelty are part of the fun!

    1. Gigi Wolf 1 month ago

      It is excruciating just listening to her. This is my definition of mind numbing non personality. I see an entire 50 years of their marriage rooted by inertia. They probably have to "make a plan" just to water the plants. An orchid would be unacceptable because, you know. The "shape".

      Of course they leave themselves open to ridicule! They are healthy, functioning adults acting like total idgits.

    2. Kraeg Minett 1 month ago

      It's not the husband who is triggered, she's very clear as to which one of them being triggered and avoiding that is important to her having a good night out. So, instead of examining her trauma that causes this trigger, she becomes someone who gives out advice on not seeing breasts/being triggered by them, and positions this as normal behaviour. This is an extreme neurosis, yes... should we poke fun at people with mental health issues? No. But is there an element of her public stance on it that is made funny by parody? Yes indeed. She is an adult that should recognize that she needs help at this point and by requiring others to change their behaviour rather than she change hers is what opens her up to ridicule.
      Additionally...very often (not always) a stance like this comes from a religious position, all while sporting a tattoo on her wrist. You don't get to take a religious stand (if that's the case) while clearly demonstrating that you don't follow ALL of the bible.

      1. Rich Lyda 1 month ago

        If the human body is traumatizing, the rest of the content of Oppenheimer must be positively debilitating. Perhaps the tender couple should have seen Elemental instead.

    3. Scott Ezell 1 month ago

      I guess you didn't read the part where she considers it cheating. Pretty sure it's not the husband being triggered....

      1. Craig List 1 month ago

        And yet you're pretty sure it's *someone* being triggered.

        Very cool, very normal.

  4. John Doe 1 month ago

    Their sex life must be amazing!

  5. Frank Castle 1 month ago

    Wow! These two should watch Showgirls.

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