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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fellas, is it gay to be into women who are also mammals?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (11 children)

If you follow the men's community grifters long enough, you realize that they don't want guys to be happy. They're all closeted about something or other and so deeply ashamed that they want other men to suffer and their eventual message is ALL the same:

"Real men don't need women, just give up hoping for a rewarding relationship, learn to accept your stoic, lonely life and just live for gaining wealth and respect."

I've been watching this shit from the sidelines for decades now, they ALL do this. Hooking naive guys in with promises of sex and affection and all the things that young men think they need, then later abandoning them because "dating isn't even worth it."

Imagine being lonely, single, socially awkward and unable to talk to girls, and the ONLY people promising to help you end up stranding you with nothing to look forward to.

These people need to be purged from Earth. I cannot fathom how more and more men are latching onto this shit even as statistically, they are more lonely than ever before. Someone explain basic math to these kids.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Well said!

And I will emphasize that this point:

just live for gaining wealth and respect

is part of the problem with the whole conservative strong male image before you even get to the relationship status. I was raised to think that way, not being explicitly told that but it being an ingrained part of the culture.

And even THAT is a subset of the value placed on conformity and pursuing the goals you are supposed to pursue rather than what brings you actual fulfillment.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Horizon--the game people hate not because of its quality, but because woman.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What's interesting is that the ones who don't have peach fuzz are men who shave. If a perfectly smooth face is what you find attractive, you want a man's face.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)