I hate seeing young couples (rant)

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19 Jul 2023, 3:33 am

The other reason why women have trouble dating is the simple situation:

Men fear that women will laugh at them.
Women fear that men will kill them.

It's the inequality of the relationship: going on a date with a man we don't know well could end in our deaths. Usually the worst thing that could happen to a man going on a date with a woman he doesn't know well is that she will make fun of him.

Of course there are exceptions, but that's the general situation.


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19 Jul 2023, 4:13 am

many aspie men have concluded that the lions' share of women in their experience are enigmas - unknowable, untouchable.



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19 Jul 2023, 9:03 am

Although I have to say I find most women very mysterious and unknowable...and I'm a woman! I don't understand their secret language of hints and subtle insinuations; when to smile and when not to smile; how not to offend them by just being myself.

If you want to say something, just bloody say it! Don't hint and imply and suggest!

I just keep out of the way of humans these days tbh. I can't understand them or why I'm so horrendously offensive to them.

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19 Jul 2023, 11:54 am

Dating and marrying a man is risky

You have to decide what is worth the risk!



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19 Jul 2023, 7:56 pm

the war between the sexes continues unabated. news at 11.



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19 Jul 2023, 11:14 pm

Mikurotoro92 wrote:
Dating and marrying a man is risky

You have to decide what is worth the risk!

You have to decide on a strategy for finding the kinds of people you would want as a potential partner. Some strategies are safer than others.


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21 Jul 2023, 12:15 pm

Most people I know, including myself, met their partners at work. I suppose you see all sides of people when they are at work, don't you.


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21 Jul 2023, 2:36 pm

would not have been possible to meet anybody at work. too many sociopaths surrounding me.



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21 Jul 2023, 3:01 pm

There is possibly no worse use of your time than being jealous of other people.

Envy is a deadly sin.



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22 Jul 2023, 10:10 pm

KitLily wrote:
Most people I know, including myself, met their partners at work. I suppose you see all sides of people when they are at work, don't you.


I’m afraid to do this. I developed an immediate attraction to someone I shared an office with who later became my boss. For obvious reasons, I made no moves, but I finally mustered the courage almost two years later to do so on her last day working at my job.

She told me she had a boyfriend, and it appeared she told the truth on that one.

And it was probably the only time to ever be relieved after being turned down. She didn’t tell anyone or get mad, and I was afraid she would



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23 Jul 2023, 10:02 am

I'm wondering if meeting our partners at workplaces is a 20th century phenomenon.

In the 21st century people seem to meet online, on dating apps or whatever. We don't meet partners in the real world anymore :?


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23 Jul 2023, 10:18 am

auntblabby wrote:
would not have been possible to meet anybody at work. too many sociopaths surrounding me.


I feel like writing off everyone around you as a sociopath greatly limits one's ability to find a partner.


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24 Jul 2023, 8:24 am

KitLily wrote:
The other reason why women have trouble dating is the simple situation:

Men fear that women will laugh at them.
Women fear that men will kill them.

It's the inequality of the relationship: going on a date with a man we don't know well could end in our deaths. Usually the worst thing that could happen to a man going on a date with a woman he doesn't know well is that she will make fun of him.

Of course there are exceptions, but that's the general situation.


Interestingly, I've only ever had success at asking out gals I barely knew. Every time I've asked out a woman I know well, I've been turned down.



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24 Jul 2023, 8:36 am

kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
But yes, independent of that above, aloneness, loneliness, rejection, they are not benign, they have effects.
And the effects are detrimental.

People can literally starve to death from lack of affection, love.

As part of this, there is a thing, a named thing,

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What Lack of Affection Can Do to You
We're facing a crisis of skin hunger, and it has real consequences.

Posted August 31, 2013 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma

Key points

Feeling deprived of meaningful human contact can be referred to as skin hunger.
People with skin hunger, or who are affection-deprived, are more likely to experience depression and stress, and in general, worse health.
The remedy for skin hunger begins with putting down one's smartphone.


:arrow: So, tell me here, our wise and knowing Doc, how did people put down their smartphones in the 1980s and 1990s???


I was under the impression smart phones were the only escape from incel hell in Europe? Generally I've heard that people do not like to be romantically or sexually approached in public by strangers?



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24 Jul 2023, 8:39 am

KitLily wrote:
The other reason why women have trouble dating is the simple situation:

Men fear that women will laugh at them.
Women fear that men will kill them.

It's the inequality of the relationship: going on a date with a man we don't know well could end in our deaths. Usually the worst thing that could happen to a man going on a date with a woman he doesn't know well is that she will make fun of him.

Of course there are exceptions, but that's the general situation.


All the more reason to legalize guns. Female paranoia of males is a remnant of ape evolution, it is not as applicable in modern times when there are guns. The gun is the great equalizer nowadays, it is not enough to merely give females guns, gun training is recommended as well.



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24 Jul 2023, 8:43 am

CryingForHelp wrote:
KitLily wrote:
Most people I know, including myself, met their partners at work. I suppose you see all sides of people when they are at work, don't you.


I’m afraid to do this. I developed an immediate attraction to someone I shared an office with who later became my boss. For obvious reasons, I made no moves, but I finally mustered the courage almost two years later to do so on her last day working at my job.

She told me she had a boyfriend, and it appeared she told the truth on that one.

And it was probably the only time to ever be relieved after being turned down. She didn’t tell anyone or get mad, and I was afraid she would


Yeah I can see the dissonance of a society where people are going around saying "we need love not war" and promoting free love, juxtaposed against corporate culture where people live in fear of being punished for basic flirting. Could be a Capitalism issue though.