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03 Apr 2011, 10:22 pm

The crux of the article:

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Just to further guide you into this wormhole, let me inform you of another interesting trend: men are increasingly refusing to have sex with their girlfriends.

A full 70% of men are shown to prefer playing video games to having sex with their girlfriends

No, this is not a joke. New studies are showing that increasingly, it is men who reject the sexual advances of women. In fact, some studies show that most guys in relationships would rather play video games than be intimate with their girlfriend (here and here)

Are you starting to get a “whiff” of something much larger? Are you starting to intuit that isn’t just about some freaks who like f*****g plastic? As I’m about to demonstrate to you, there is a huge movement going about this world, where men are deciding that “women aren’t worth the effort”.


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03 Apr 2011, 10:24 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
The crux of the article:

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Just to further guide you into this wormhole, let me inform you of another interesting trend: men are increasingly refusing to have sex with their girlfriends.

A full 70% of men are shown to prefer playing video games to having sex with their girlfriends

No, this is not a joke. New studies are showing that increasingly, it is men who reject the sexual advances of women. In fact, some studies show that most guys in relationships would rather play video games than be intimate with their girlfriend (here and here)

Are you starting to get a “whiff” of something much larger? Are you starting to intuit that isn’t just about some freaks who like f***ing plastic? As I’m about to demonstrate to you, there is a huge movement going about this world, where men are deciding that “women aren’t worth the effort”.


Strange, to equate a trend's increasing growth with it NOT being made up of "freaks who like f***ing plastic".


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03 Apr 2011, 10:26 pm

Yeah it is pretty weird to me. But the point i prove is it doesnt seem to be talking about the gap between girlfriends, it is talking about not wanting to engage with an existing girlfriend. Twilight Zone stuff, anyway.


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03 Apr 2011, 10:31 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
Yeah it is pretty weird to me. But the point i prove is it doesnt seem to be talking about the gap between girlfriends, it is talking about not wanting to engage with an existing girlfriend. Twilight Zone stuff, anyway.


That point was used to support several other points, it was not the main point of the article(Doesn't even come close actually) you have not proved anything. If you mean something other than this by using 'But the point I prove' I apologize in advance.



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03 Apr 2011, 10:33 pm

I mean to prove that point.


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03 Apr 2011, 10:38 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
Yeah it is pretty weird to me. But the point i prove is it doesnt seem to be talking about the gap between girlfriends, it is talking about not wanting to engage with an existing girlfriend. Twilight Zone stuff, anyway.

I agree - if guys feel henpecked, unless they have a kid together why stay? Find someone else. That's the mistake I see there.


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03 Apr 2011, 10:45 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
I mean to prove that point.


Are you saying the point is that men don't want to engage with women who they are already involved in? Cause that would also be false, you just took a section out of context and acted like it could represent the article as a whole.


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The truth?

A lot of men would prefer a plastic doll with no emotions, over a real woman that’s only capable of negative emotions, bullying, drama and criticism. So yes, we do prefer no emotions and no brain over a brain only capable of negativity and psychological harassment.

In fact the ideal for every man is not a “real doll with no goals, ambitions or drive”. The ideal for every man is a physically attractive woman that’s charismatic, positive, encouraging, loving, affectionate, ambitious, intelligent and can hold great conversation.

But again, there is so little introspection pushed onto women in our society, that when men would rather “date” a plastic doll than the average woman, that same average woman blames and bashes the man instead of looking inward. If a guy would rather be with a doll than be with you, what does that say about you? Seriously? Man-bashing has been made such a politically correct outlet for women that it allows them to just blame men for everything. What does it say about the average woman, if a lot of men would rather masturbate than date her?


The article to be concise is intended to defend and explain the choice of men to take on a 'real doll' as opposed to a real woman, it also goes into why a man would refuse to engage women actively. But its main point was never about why men in a relationship would refuse to engage their partner, it just used that to support its main point.

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I also do not see why a man would not drop a woman he was no longer attracted or attached to emotionally especially if they are not married.



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03 Apr 2011, 10:47 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
zen_mistress wrote:
Yeah it is pretty weird to me. But the point i prove is it doesnt seem to be talking about the gap between girlfriends, it is talking about not wanting to engage with an existing girlfriend. Twilight Zone stuff, anyway.

I agree - if guys feel henpecked, unless they have a kid together why stay? Find someone else. That's the mistake I see there.


What if it is the girl feeling cockpecked by the male? It can come from both genders you know.


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03 Apr 2011, 10:49 pm

I say that my point is that this seems to be the crux of the article, from what I read. And my poor attention span becomes even poorer when faced with such crud.

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Just to further guide you into this wormhole, let me inform you of another interesting trend: men are increasingly refusing to have sex with their girlfriends.

A full 70% of men are shown to prefer playing video games to having sex with their girlfriends

No, this is not a joke. New studies are showing that increasingly, it is men who reject the sexual advances of women. In fact, some studies show that most guys in relationships would rather play video games than be intimate with their girlfriend (here and here)

Are you starting to get a “whiff” of something much larger? Are you starting to intuit that isn’t just about some freaks who like f*****g plastic? As I’m about to demonstrate to you, there is a huge movement going about this world, where men are deciding that “women aren’t worth the effort”.


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03 Apr 2011, 11:03 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
zen_mistress wrote:
Yeah it is pretty weird to me. But the point i prove is it doesnt seem to be talking about the gap between girlfriends, it is talking about not wanting to engage with an existing girlfriend. Twilight Zone stuff, anyway.

I agree - if guys feel henpecked, unless they have a kid together why stay? Find someone else. That's the mistake I see there.


What if it is the girl feeling cockpecked by the male? Pecking can come from both genders. What i dont like is the inference from these sorts of articles that only females are capable of cruelty in relationships.


The article was not meant to address how women should react or how they feel, so it makes no sense for it to be brought up, there is no indication that the writer felt women should react in any different way than he felt men should react. So your point here really isn't a point with any relevance and your classification of this article into a group of articles which does make those inferences concerning cruelty is also incorrect.

As for your other post, you cannot call one section of such a long article the crux especially when there is no wording that could be used to call it such.

zen_mistress wrote:
I say that my point is that this seems to be the crux of the article, from what I read. And my poor attention span becomes even poorer when faced with such crud.

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Just to further guide you into this wormhole, let me inform you of another interesting trend: men are increasingly refusing to have sex with their girlfriends.

A full 70% of men are shown to prefer playing video games to having sex with their girlfriends

No, this is not a joke. New studies are showing that increasingly, it is men who reject the sexual advances of women. In fact, some studies show that most guys in relationships would rather play video games than be intimate with their girlfriend (here and here)

Are you starting to get a “whiff” of something much larger? Are you starting to intuit that isn’t just about some freaks who like f***ing plastic? As I’m about to demonstrate to you, there is a huge movement going about this world, where men are deciding that “women aren’t worth the effort”.


This is not the crux at this point he has not even stated his main point, here he is stating another reason to support his argument before introducing it. Have you finished the article yet?



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03 Apr 2011, 11:10 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
zen_mistress wrote:
Yeah it is pretty weird to me. But the point i prove is it doesnt seem to be talking about the gap between girlfriends, it is talking about not wanting to engage with an existing girlfriend. Twilight Zone stuff, anyway.

I agree - if guys feel henpecked, unless they have a kid together why stay? Find someone else. That's the mistake I see there.


What if it is the girl feeling cockpecked by the male? Pecking can come from both genders. What i dont like is the inference from these sorts of articles that only females are capable of cruelty in relationships.

I don't know where he got his statistics from. I'll agree that it bothers me when there's poignant truths about what's going on and then a lot of under-handed stuff snuck in for effect because it blows up the validity of the topic.


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03 Apr 2011, 11:17 pm

I say this study is inherently flawed.


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03 Apr 2011, 11:18 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
I say this study is inherently flawed.


Which study and how?



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03 Apr 2011, 11:21 pm

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TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
I say this study is inherently flawed.


Which study and how?


You can't gather accurate data on whether men prefer video games over relationships when you ask a bunch of gaming addicts. Of course most are going to say games are better and women aren't worth the effort.

It's like going to a crack house and asking the crack addicts if they would like a sandwich over a baggie of crack.


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03 Apr 2011, 11:26 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
ikorack wrote:
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I say this study is inherently flawed.


Which study and how?


You can't gather accurate data on whether men prefer video games over relationships when you ask a bunch of gaming addicts. Of course most are going to say games are better and women aren't worth the effort.

It's like going to a crack house and asking the crack addicts if they would like a sandwich over a baggie of crack.


Of course but that source has little relevance to his actual point as he provides two sources to back up that claim likely because of the how questionable the PCworld link is.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/23352/7 ... irlfriends

Here it is. it was right in front of the other so I am not sure how you missed it.

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1 in 3 British men would prefer to play video games than sleep with their partner, with 72% claiming they'd shun their missus for the night to play a new release.


EDIT: Note that it says the research was carried out by a ps3 site but it does not say how it could be a poll in which case your point would stand but it could also mean it was carried out in some other way, or by a third party with their money.



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03 Apr 2011, 11:29 pm

And?

That has more to do with taking your partner for granted than what your partner is doing/not doing. Men have been blowing off their wives for golf, fishing, hunting... etc for YEARS.

Video games is just the next fishing trip.


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