techstepgenr8tion wrote:
This thread's cracking me up seriously. If the original poster wouldn't have said "I'm going to try to be a jerk" and laid those same exact bullet points out - no one would really have a thing to say against it. Especially if he's not REALLY treating them like crap, has no intention of treating her like crap or being a jerk, and wants to vibe with her as an equal but at the same time build himself up so that when he does that its like he's reaching down and lifting her up. There's a way you deliberately use stuff like that, in a way thats strictly humor and in a way thats strictly to help build someone else up, and of course you use a lot of other things - particularly being yourself, showing your better side and your intelligence, showing you appreciate all those things in her. Like one of the responses said - some of these things are just signs of good mental health.
That's where I think the AS comes in, people can all get the same information and I think the trouble comes in when people's emotional skews of perception have them missing the fundamental point of certain behaviors. Guys who'd use that to strictly score, unless they're being real upfront and honest about it with someone who's up for the same, and who are leaving wreckage behind them and don't care - are white trash. They haven't figured out their existential reality, they've been beaten down by life so much that they pitched their human side almost completely for their animal side, and when the human side comes back the regrets will burn like hell (and if that doesn't happen, there's really no hope in general for someone like that).
To me though, guys using this stuff to hurt women is like skinheads using the story of Jesus as a tangent they can grab to hate Jews, its nonsensical - a) because completely missing the point is giving it entirely too much dignity and b) sadly you just have good and bad people, the same information can be used many different ways, you'll have confused people as well - and I LIKE to write posts like this to help sort them out a little before they do anything too stupid.
You stand up for guys who are jerks a little too much.
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