Saw a TikTok about some woman asking why men have to disturb the peace of a Saturday or Sunday morning by mowing their lawn or using a leaf blower, and you would’ve thought she went on a bigoted rant by the comment section. Like damn she was just talking about how it would be nice to enjoy a peaceful morning and random commenters took it as a personal attack. Shit you not I truly believe some suburbanites would go to war over their lawn the way they treat it like a fortress to a castle.

Is this not extremely silly when you type it all out? Time is a circle and I feel like I’m a peasant under feudalism watching kings, nobles and knights protect their land like it’s under some type of threat

    • TupamarosShakur [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Right, and a single lawnmower which you are not operating but hearing from who knows how many houses over is not anywhere near the level of noise you get in an average modern day city. The birds by my window are usually just as loud as a single lawnmower operating down the street.

      Which gets back to my original point, which is we are so daily assaulted with massive amounts of noise, in most cases much more than a lawnmower I’d argue even a single house over, and there is so much wrong and hostile to life about the suburbs that this extreme focus on what time your neighbor is mowing their lawn is a useless conversation. You already live in the suburbs, your life already rests atop a mountain of human suffering, suburbanization has already taken over this country’s landscape, who cares what time your neighbor is mowing their lawn as if somehow getting some quiet on a Saturday morning is gonna alleviate those three things I listed.

      Not to mention the point I made a bit more succinctly in a different comment - this tiktok, based on op’s description, is not about lawns, not about the suburbs, nor is it really about noise pollution. A lot of hexbears using it as a jumping off point to voice their own valid grievances, all of which I agree with, but when you get down to it this seems to be two reactionary people - one lawn boomer and one lady who doesn’t want to be reminded other people live around her - neither of whom has any issue with the suburban lifestyle, in conflict about what time the lawn should be mowed. Not about noise in general, not about lawns, not about the suburban lifestyle, but whether a lawn should be mowed in the morning or not (whatever she means by “morning”). Therefore I classify this as a minor annoyance and come down on the side of accepting that you live around other people and sometimes you have to deal with them living, which unfortunately in the suburbs in 2023 that means they’re gonna mow their lawn.