Amazon Is Killing My Sex Life
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Amazon Is Killing My Sex Life
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#2Repost of a Salon article.
Original submission: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/30/amazon_is_killing_my_sex_lif...
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826628
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#3“The type of person who is attracted to these jobs and thus to the Seattle area seems to be a socially awkward, emotionally stunted, sheltered, strangely entitled, and/or a misogynistic individual,” she wrote in an email.
I'm impressed by the lack of self-awareness displayed in that statement. There's a saying that if everyone around you looks like an asshole, then it's probably you who is the asshole. I feel as though it applies here.
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#4lol
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#5Meh, one would think the solution to one's dating problems would be to change their approach, not expect an entire city & gender to accomodate them...
If one is looking for artists one might want to check out art parties rather than software created by the people their looking to avoid. (OkCupid).
The article is as horrible as every other article written by men about women complaining about how they can't get the woman of their dreams.
Stop whining, be positive, and go find the people you're looking for. If one can't find one artist/musician to date in SF or Seattle I really don't know what to tell you...
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#6I think the author should be glad that she lives in a country where her biggest issue is that all the wealthy and intelligent men she meets don't have artistic hobbies.
That is a fantastically first world / middle class problem to have.
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#7“The type of person who is attracted to these jobs and thus to the Seattle area seems to be a socially awkward, emotionally stunted, sheltered, strangely entitled, and/or a misogynistic individual,” she wrote in an email. I'm impressed by the lack of self-awareness displayed in that statement. There's a saying that if everyone around you looks like an asshole, then it's probably you who is the asshole. I feel as thou…
You don't know what her friends and dating life have looked like.
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#8“The type of person who is attracted to these jobs and thus to the Seattle area seems to be a socially awkward, emotionally stunted, sheltered, strangely entitled, and/or a misogynistic individual,” she wrote in an email. I'm impressed by the lack of self-awareness displayed in that statement. There's a saying that if everyone around you looks like an asshole, then it's probably you who is the asshole. I feel as thou…
You don't know what her friends and dating life have looked like.
Indeed, I do not. That does not make the article any less obnoxious and narcissistic, however. It reads like the musings of a lonely and alienated person dissatisfied with the world around them and with delusions of entitlement. If that sounds familiar to a subculture that was the subject of extensive debate over a recent tragedy, well, it is.
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#10“The type of person who is attracted to these jobs and thus to the Seattle area seems to be a socially awkward, emotionally stunted, sheltered, strangely entitled, and/or a misogynistic individual,” she wrote in an email. I'm impressed by the lack of self-awareness displayed in that statement. There's a saying that if everyone around you looks like an asshole, then it's probably you who is the asshole. I feel as thou…
Hell, the article's subtitle doesn't start it off any better: The tech boom in Seattle is bringing in droves of successful, straight single guys. And as any woman will tell you: You don't want to date any of them.
Or to paraphrase, I am the arbiter of all dating preferences, and anyone who works at Amazon is terrible and undatable. My opinion is a fact and all women agree with it. Normally I'd write that off as an attention-grabbing opener, but the rest of the article is about as nuanced.
I'd bet a large pile of money on Seattle having plenty of people who are thrilled to the crowds of single programmer-types moving into the city.