• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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    Women who fall into this category aren’t even in the dating pool.

    He goes off and gets laid. She stays at home. Looks like everything works out. What’s everyone arguing about? Both characters get exactly what they’re signing up for, unless we have some users on Lemmy who really need to touch grass and realize that not every chick is locking their door lmao.

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    I was lucky enough to meet my SO before online dating became the norm.

    I’m just not equipped to navigate something like that.

    I feel like being eternally single and lonely would be easier than having to encounter the constant rejection.

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    Don’t even think about going there, they’ll kidnap you and sell you for your organs, if not worse, it’s not worth it.

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    I wholeheartedly refute the assertion this comic makes that the word ‘lock’ is onomatopoeic.

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    Reminds me of a story. Four scientists, all male, on an expedition in Antarctica, far from any other human being. They set up camp, establish the data link to sync their email, and one of them gets an email spam of the sort “hot women in your area”. The next human female was several hundred kilometers away…

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      The next human female was several hundred kilometers away…

      …and probably more cold than “hot”.

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        Guarantee you she was hot relative to local environmental temperatures, especially compared to women with a current latitude below 60.

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    This is hilarious because women are purchasing concert tickets of a savage woman beater, Chris Brown, until they’re sold out. He has a sold out show in Toronto tonight.

    I guess if you can dance, sing, and look good, women will let you beat other women while they buy tickets to your show.

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    Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Honestly I don’t see what makes chasing afyer women so special, you men have better things to do in your lives.

    So go out there & enjoy your hobbies.

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      But then women start asking me if I’m gay, wtf is wrong with me and why am I so full of myself whenever I don’t want to date and enjoy solitude

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      Chasing is only fun for predators. That’s why it’s such a frustrating and unfulfilling experience for the majority of men.

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        Predators like you.

        You are the epitome of “Look ladies, I’m your one true good man” energy.

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          Yeah, I know. I’ve been called a rapist for refusing to have sex with women several times. Because that’s what predators do.

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        Chasing is fun, if you do it right.

        Go out, learn some new hobbies, try new things. Make a point to at least try some things you don’t like. Make new friends, and you’ll probably find someone who is equally happy to find you. The chase can be fun, but don’t chase a person, chase happiness, run with the pack, and find the one who is running with you.

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          Sharing hobbies is not what I would call chasing, that’s just basic social skills. Chasing is pretty much all the pick-up artist stuff. But honestly, I find people of today extremely boring, especially young people. The most complex hobby they have is doing workout to look fit and even that is done on a very superficial level. Nobody makes art anymore or is into philosophy or psychology. It’s all just about consuming memes and TikTok slop or pretending to be creative by using AI or joining the current virtue signaling/slacktivism hypetrain on social media. That’s why I prefer to talk to older people, you can sit down with them in a café and talk for hours about plenty of topics without ever looking at a smartphone. But it’s not easy to find them, they don’t go out much either for similar reasons. Society has changed a lot in the last decades and all I can do is to accept that and cherish those rare occasions.

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            New generations aren’t required to appreciate the culture of older generations.

            Frankly, I think the half-perm half macklemore high sided buzzcut fuccboi look is dumb, and it makes people look like pomped up poodles, but they aren’t getting those haircuts to be attractive to millennials. I imagine this is what my parents thought when every guy in my generation had spiked hair with bleached tips… So let them be alien to you, it’s totally normal. You don’t have to understand, but you should give them space to be themselves.

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              We didn’t have much better haircuts back then either. But we had more diversity. This is also one of those things I miss, the countless subcultures which led to interesting social dynamics. When was the last time you saw punks and hip hop enjoyers partying together in a park?

              I’m not trying to take space away from young people by any means. I actually tried the opposite. It didn’t work and I moved on.

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            or is into philosophy or psychology

            That makes people fun?

            I find people of today extremely boring, especially young people

            I think you should take a look at yourself before you call a generation that is experiencing the highest cost of living in modern history, boring.

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              That makes people fun?

              Yes, talking to people about something deeper than “lol, look at this meme” is fun.

              I think you should take a look at yourself before you call a generation that is experiencing the highest cost of living in modern history, boring.

              WTF does one have to do with the other…? Are you suggesting that people have zero interests outside of social media because of high cost of living?

              You do realise that libraries are free? That getting a used guitar will cost you all of $50? That getting a pencil and a notebook to start drawing will be, what, $5? Oh yeah, you can even get a pencil for free at an Ikea.

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              Computers and music instruments are ridiculously cheap compared to the eighties and nineties. I had to build stuff with broken parts I found in trash (like everybody else who wasn’t rich so the majority of users) and still managed to make much better music with all that Frankenstein equipment than the average young AI slop “artist” of today. And you’re also proving my point regarding philosophy and psychology or anything else that needs more than a few seconds to process. Fits perfectly with studies about declining attention spans.

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    Honestly so happy I’m married, I’m sorry for all of y’all. Dystopian times.

    But hey to add my two cents: I think that fear is marketable, so women are over fed on paranoia.

    At the same time, porn and propaganda have put bad expectations in some percentile of dumb men.

    Both sexes are generally out of social practice, and societal trust is at an all time low. Most people are nice, but most people are also awkward.

    So get out there and meet some people, don’t even do so romantically, just go learn how to interact with people, form some friendships.

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      Hobby clubs are great for meeting new people, just don’t join them for the explicit purpose of meeting potential partners.

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      came back to this thread to find discourse that ISN’T cancer. thank your for your sane and gentle response. if more people had your empathy, less of them would be single and hurting.

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      But hey to add my two cents: I think that fear is marketable, so women are over fed on paranoia.

      This is the case with literally everything.

      Used to hear about “no-go zones” in Stockholm in my local news a lot, areas where even the Swedish police were afraid to go in to. Then a friend of mine moved to Stockholm and started going to “the worst no-go zone” every weekend to get fresh produce. The only time he felt in danger was when he stumbled upon a drunk countryman.

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        Well what defines going out? There are plenty of board game meet ups, even if you don’t especially like board games I would posit that it’s not an objectively negative experience; so if you must hold you nose and go anyway, do so.

        Secondly, although this is coming from my experience in America, so your millage may vary, there’s tons of outdoor activities and groups: go for a hike, go backpacking.

        You don’t need special equipment, you don’t need to buy anything. Just a water bottle, backpack, tent/tarp, and some non perishable foods and you’re good to go.

        It’s true that the convenient third places of yesterday have seemingly vanished; but people are still out there.

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          I used to hike a lot but these days it’s incredibly difficult to find people to hike with, they’re usually at least twenty years older than me and not in the best shape anymore which rules out difficult routes. And everywhere else there are masses of stupid tourists and influencers stumbling around in their flip-flops (Because of course you wear flip-flops in the alps!), throwing trash everywhere and yelling into their smartphones when filming themselves which ruins the experience. Board and card game groups also died out in the early 2010s, that was just a short hype. A lot of things disappeared without replacement.

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            I mean I used to wear flip flops hiking all the time but I’m guessing you mean a different type since I would wear them transitioning between land and water without losing them.

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              This is what I’m talking about. You don’t go there hiking with flip-flops or sneakers. Or in shorts. Or without emergency bivouac. Or without checking the weather report first. A clear blue sky can turn pitch black in less than twenty minutes with huge temperature drops. People are so out of touch with nature nowadays, they completely underestimate how rough conditions can get. And they’re too lazy to do a just little bit of research.

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            Hmm well I can’t speak for Europe, but plenty of chill people to go hiking with in the US, plus it might not be the most challenging stuff maybe but I’ve hiked out of the grand canyon with my friends 70 yo grandma so if you want the social aspect you can still do challenging things just maybe go a little slower. Also again don’t know about Europe but there are like five weekly board game meetups in my decent sized city.

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                The GRAND Canyon is… actually, very, very, VERY Grand.

                It’s a huge place, bigger than any I’ve ever experienced before or since. Considering it “overrun” with… anything would be quite a feat. You could fill it with everyone in America and you’d still have space left over for two or three California Condors.

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                Man you seem to be very negative about this.

                I guarantee you that most tourists don’t even leave the rim of the grand canyon at all. They walk around the visitors center for an hour and go home. Go more than 1000’ down from the rim and it’s not particularly crowded at all.

                I can’t comment on Europe, like the previous poster—America has far more wide open wilderness than Europe does in general—but if in the USA there are still countless places where you can backpack for days without seeing a single person. There are also plenty of easier hikes with beautiful views that only see a few visitors a day. Just need to put in the footwork to find them. You won’t find them by staying at home and complaining about other hikers.

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    Men looking for women as romantic partners is like searching for potable water in a desert.

    When looking for men as romantic partners is like searching for potable water in a SWAMP.

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    I wish I can go a day without thinking how much better the world would be if men killed themselves more. Myself included. Past treama making it so that i can even form any kind of intimate relationship and apparently that makes me dangerous.