• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I just assume no one is interested in me ever, no matter how nice they are to me. I also go out of my way to avoid contact with humans in the first place.

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    9 hours ago

    Something about drinking poison and expecting the other to die comes to mind.

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    8 hours ago

    Reminds me of the meme that goes something like : “she’s not into you. She’s hot and you’re horny, no the same thing.”

  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    I feel like if a guy wants to know if a woman is interested explicit relations, he should just come out and ask, and if the answer is no, he should accept it. Why can’t clear and direct communication be a thing?

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      7 hours ago

      There’s safety in being indirect (you can retreat into the ambiguity), and there’s the “handshake” aspect of it too where it can prove they understand you on a deeper level than what’s explicitly on the surface.

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      9 hours ago

      Why can’t clear and direct communication be a thing?

      Because for the most part people assume everyone is on their wavelength. Put it online and the problem compounds due to context being stripped away.

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        In my experience men are much more clear when they like someone than women are. Men are less likely to make it a “game”. Men are more likely too push it even when rejected I won’t deny that, but women have done the same as well.

        My buddy recently got a new gf. He offered to go outside and start her car and clear the snow off of it. She no please don’t do that you aren’t even dressed yet. So he didn’t do it then she came home and expressed she was upset he didn’t try harder to do it anyway. They took that as a lesson and he pushes a little more on stuff like that but he also asked her to not say no directly like that and make it easier for him to insist.

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    8 hours ago

    Well, since I can’t see the difference, I make advances on no one. I hated all the moments I was made aware that a woman who I was attracted to had an interest in me, though - it was always too late

    But yes, most men are creeps or even worse, and women have to protect themselves. Couldn’t imagine being in their shoes

    • Gonzako@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I’ll be honest, just disregard all these kind of posts and just be sincere and unregarded about the world at large. Neither feminist nor right wing dating advice will get you anywhere, you’ll just go advancing their agenda.

      Just move forward in live, whatever that means to you; act like the world is going to acomodate you and it’ll most likely will (tho, this assumes you have secured a source of income, capitalist society and such).

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        I do deradicalisation work with men I find IRL or online, I think there’s a better way for men, but they’re actively pyoped into voting and acting against their own interests.

        Can’t express how many of them (at least in my country) point to memes like this as “see, feminism just wants to shame men, it’s not about equality, I’m gonna vote for (insert Christofascist that wants Handmaiden’s Tale IRL) because he ‘stands up for my rights’”.

        The creeps that you mention don’t care that you’re mean to them, they also can’t be convinced to change their political stance, they’re irrecoverable misogynists.

        Unless you plan to form an armed paramilitary of radfems (which would be cool), I see yelling about “triggered men” as a pretty bad political strategy, because it alienates exactly the guys that are on the fence and could be convinced to abandon internalised misogyny and become feminists. Feminists already don’t get triggered by this, creeps don’t care.

      • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        💯

        If you’re bothered by this, you just might be part of the Problem

        If I was a woman, id absolutely do this to keep myself safe.