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Blatant favouritism and other SoMe craziness

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niadainud · 06/08/2025 21:17

Saw this on a random person's Facebook page earlier:

"I am the mother of an amazing and handsome son who lives in Texas. I have two other children too." 😯

It's sort of hilarious, but also shocking and rather sad. Virtue signalling seems to be common on SoMe, but I hadn't come across anything quite like this before.

What other jaw-droppingly egregious things have you seen people happily admit to on social media lately?

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27TimesAway · 07/08/2025 05:47

Is that a joke of some sort? I'm not sure I get it. How is it virtue signalling? Or was that posted on facebook without irony?

I know someone though who only ever talks about his son-the-surgeon. He has another adult child. That other adult child is rarely mentioned and he can't always recall the names of the second child's children. We have heard everything about 'My son the surgeons children' though. As is usually the way you never see my-son-the-surgeon and it is the other child who does all the grunt work in terms of caring.

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niadainud · 07/08/2025 13:04

27TimesAway · 07/08/2025 05:47

Is that a joke of some sort? I'm not sure I get it. How is it virtue signalling? Or was that posted on facebook without irony?

I know someone though who only ever talks about his son-the-surgeon. He has another adult child. That other adult child is rarely mentioned and he can't always recall the names of the second child's children. We have heard everything about 'My son the surgeons children' though. As is usually the way you never see my-son-the-surgeon and it is the other child who does all the grunt work in terms of caring.

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I don't think it's a joke, no - it's an example of the same thing you're describing about "my son the surgeon".

I should have written "Virtue signalling also seems to be common..." I think what I quoted is an example of a distinct lack of virtue!

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LoverOfTerriers · 07/08/2025 13:13

I know someone like this. Will sing the praises of her son all day long (and he's objectively nothing special) and rarely, if at all, mention the daughter who actually does all of the running around for her. I feel awful for the daughter.

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niadainud · 07/08/2025 14:32

@27TimesAway - yes, posted without irony as far as I can tell.

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27TimesAway · 08/08/2025 08:08

Heavens. It's a bit jaw dropping. Imagine displaying your favouritism so blatantly!

TraumaQuestions · 08/08/2025 08:10

I knew someone who made a Facebook post saying 'spent the day with my two favourite people in the world' and included lots of tagged photographs of her husband and one of her two children.

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niadainud · 08/08/2025 10:56

27TimesAway · 08/08/2025 08:08

Heavens. It's a bit jaw dropping. Imagine displaying your favouritism so blatantly!

I know! I had to reread it to affirm it was as blatant as it seemed and that it appeared to be meant without irony.

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niadainud · 08/08/2025 10:57

TraumaQuestions · 08/08/2025 08:10

I knew someone who made a Facebook post saying 'spent the day with my two favourite people in the world' and included lots of tagged photographs of her husband and one of her two children.

Jeez. I mean I've given my dad a card that said "To one of my favourite parents" or something, but ouch, that's vicious.

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wizzywig · 08/08/2025 10:58

SoMe is a new one for me

Dimly · 08/08/2025 10:59

wizzywig · 08/08/2025 10:58

SoMe is a new one for me

Yeah, a bit cringe.

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niadainud · 08/08/2025 11:29

Dimly · 08/08/2025 10:59

Yeah, a bit cringe.

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I just saw it being used by someone the other day. 🤷

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