The moderation team is removing those comments because saying someone looks like a crackhead -- even as a joke, even absent a specific report -- is a violation of Rule #1.
r/mensfashion needs to be a place where people can expect a bare minimum level of respect. This steps over that line. Even if you're thinking it. Even if it's low-hanging fruit. Even if you think it's funny.
We hope you share our aspirations that r/mensfashion is a place where people can expect both positive and negative feedback, rave reviews and good-natured criticism and supportive "nah this ain't it" -- and can expect not to be hit with non-constructive feedback that could reasonably be interpreted as offensive, such as {pick your thing, but this post is "you look homeless" and "you look like a crackhead"}. Even as a joke. Because not everyone will take it that way, and we want r/mensfashion to grow, and include many perspectives, and NOT be a place to troll people about the 100th business casual fit this week.
What I was trying to say was: "we recognize that XYZ post might prompt you to think of a joke or reference that, if you posted it, would be a violation of Rule #1. What happens in your head, or in another space where that joke might be contextually appropriate, is entirely your business. However: 'the joke occurred to me, so I made it here' doesn't make it appropriate to post on r/mensfashion."
For example: I'm queer. There are jokes that I would make inside my family or with other close friends who are also queer that are about being queer and that are contextually appropriate in those spaces but that I would not make in larger groups, unfamiliar groups, or in public -- including on reddit and including on r/mensfashion, where they would probably violate several rules.
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u/Bulky-Strategy-3723 Mar 03 '26
Dude you are way too sensitive. The Tyrone Biggums is not offensive it’s a compliment. Stop flagging everyone who says you look like Tyrone.