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When most women think " Ew, a dadbod" ,it's expected they will encounter the most "despicable" kind of men. Such paradigm is not a consequence of a misogyny; quite the other way around. Downvoting me won't change this.
Back in the day, rude invitations with dick pics were odd enough to mock. Now, according to this article, they've become almost accepted. Funny.
Does anyone else have a feeling of total alienation from the people and behaviours described in this article? I certainly do.
Yes, thank you! I've read a lot of the comments on here and you're the only one who's (seemingly) raised the question of whether what's written in this article is actually accurate in any general sense. To me, it feels very sensational, exaggerated and very selective in its use of interviewees and their quotes to describe a specific type of online dating experience, and then projects that as if it's the average exper…
It's possible to feel alienation to the people in the article while believing it is true. There most definitely are serial sluts like this in the world (both male and female), so it doesn't really surprise me.
Anyway, I imagine most people on HN have similar thoughts about these people, but thought it was too obvious to mention.
God I wish I was in NYC. The stories I've heard from buddies there! West coast scene is not like this at all, especially not in Man-Francisco or Man-Jose (unless you like men of course).
Worth considering whether one values career opportunities (assuming you want to do tech) more or values other aspects of life more (assuming you want a more active dating life).
I have guy friends who want to settle down in SF, but refuse to move here from New York until they've found someone they want to marry and who is willing to move with them.
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> Sometimes the best choice is to not play at all. You might be preaching to the choir here.
Relevant username? Do you work in the teledildonics space?
But others lament the way the extreme casualness of sex in the age of Tinder leaves many women feeling de-valued. “It’s rare for a woman of our generation to meet a man who treats her like a priority instead of an option,” wrote Erica Gordon on the Gen Y Web site Elite Daily, in 2014. If a woman doesn't want to feel like an option, shouldn't she stay far away from Tinder? It's not like there isn't a million other way…
> If a woman doesn't want to feel like an option, shouldn't she stay far away from Tinder? Yes she could, or better still, she could get Bumble, which is the female version of Tinder, where the women get to keep guys as options :) http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/02/bumble-is-exactly-like-tind...
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90% of women want to sleep with 10% of men. Men are far less picky. Even the best looking of men has been a whale-rider in his time. Women: Is he rich? Good looking? Do other women want him? Men: Will she sleep with me? Once you understand that, all of the rest of this makes sense.
"...Even the best looking of men has been a whale-rider in his time..." Just... wow. Do people really think like this ??? I mean... this isn't even true. For instance, I can, pretty much, guarantee that even when he was a QB and Captain in High School and at the University of Michigan... Tom Brady was NEVER as indiscriminate as you intimate. His women were ALWAYS top 1% of those available. That's just how the world w…
There are a ton of guys who keep a fat chick on bootycall. You'd be surprised. A better looking woman, at least in markets not as saturated with women as NYC, will not put up with that as easily.
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I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I'd never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterward I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up a woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, "Are you still doing typing?" Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say,"Okay, I…
I hate this quote. Who's mind is it trying to change? People who already enjoy random frivolous human interaction are already filling their days with it, the same way he is. And people who dread useless chores like this and feel they get more pleasure and enjoyment out of the rest of their life are certainly not going to suddenly try his way. Are there people who are optimizing their workflow while secretly pining fo…
The quote is saying we're all just here on a rock flying through space. Be a part of your neighborhood/communities. Enjoy life, engage strangers not as soulless husks of flesh but as humans like yourself.
Perhaps there are merits to a lifestyle of pure efficiency, but there are valuable interactions lost if you stick to your own little world.
But others lament the way the extreme casualness of sex in the age of Tinder leaves many women feeling de-valued. “It’s rare for a woman of our generation to meet a man who treats her like a priority instead of an option,” wrote Erica Gordon on the Gen Y Web site Elite Daily, in 2014. If a woman doesn't want to feel like an option, shouldn't she stay far away from Tinder? It's not like there isn't a million other way…
Possibly, but presumably they would join Tinder because those other ways didn't produce results.