The chili discourse
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Around the time when Twitter began falling into a pit of despair, the chili discourse began. Since Twitter was mainly focused on how its new corporate overlord Elon Musk would destroy the social media platform, this narrative is a little hard to piece together. Here goes.
It starts with a kind-hearted gesture from the neighbor of “several guys” who moved in next door. This neighbor noticed the guys were ordering a lot of Door Dash and decided to bring them a nice pot of chili as she felt a “strange motherly urge” to feed them. Sweet, right? Wrong.
It quickly turned into a conversation around misogyny–men should be able to cook for and feed themselves—while others criticized the now proclaimed Chili Neighbor for her self-described maternal instinct. One user even tried to justify why chili would ruin the lives of these boys because MAYBE they don’t have bowls or they have dietary restrictions. Honestly, the discourse was pretty tame, with a lot of levelheaded people pointing out that offering food has been a long established way to greet neighbors.
