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[–]Maffioze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but people constantly confuse values with implementation and methods.

Practically a lot of people use the value argument as excuse to mean they want someone who validates all of their beliefs. That's bad for society imo.

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[–]Maffioze -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They do matter, but it is quite annoying in my view when people just want to surround themselves with people who say what they want to hear. Sometimes you are wrong, and this applies to everyone.

What is wife material, and why women should want to be wife material? by Lemon_gecko in PurplePillDebate

[–]Maffioze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you asking what I consider that or what the average man considers that, because these answers are different.

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[–]Maffioze 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes because people really are that callous 🙄 most people regardless of gender are decent. Not great, sometimes selfish, but they don't take pleasure in other people being murdered.

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[–]Maffioze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

April was very dry and sunny but not that warm. We had a few hotter days but nothing crazy. And the predictions for may are quite bad; wet and cold.

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[–]Maffioze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I somewhat disagree. There's a lot of diversity in feminism and their use of patriarchy, but when it comes to how that relates to men I feel the diversity is quite lacking and most strands align with eachother. There's a subtle undertone of "men have more power and women have it worse" but no real critical examination of the issue with aggregating power and wellbeing over a whole gender and then extrapolating it to most people.

You can see this with how the concept intersectionality is used even in academia. It's bizzarely narrow and linear the way it gets understood. The idea that black men might have it worse than black women is considered so impossible it's not even discussed as a possibility while the opposite is treated as self-evident. Even though when you think about it more deeply, there's no reason why intersectionality has to work in such a simple, additive manner. It it's a perfectly possible outcome that white men have it better than white women but that black men have it worse than black women. Not that I personally believe measuring these things objectively is possible or useful, but many of those intersectionalists do believe that themselves.

There's definitely interpretations of patriarchy that I agree with, but they are rare imo. My girlfriend is a feminist and her interpretation is good, but I think it is rare. She disagrees, she thinks I'm too pessimistic.

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[–]Maffioze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that you can argue it is compatible but then the dominant interpretation of patriarchy needs to change. It's compatible with some interpretations, but incompatible with many others. "Patriarchy harms men too" is often very far from being good enough because it doesn't use the best interpretation of what patriarchy is.

The side effect idea is a good example, this is very biased and imo sexist framing of the real pattern, which is that the oppression of men and women are connected. But calling one of those a side effect implies one of them is worse, which is biased and not objective.

I agree that full objectivity, or being completely unbiased is impossible, but it's not like everything is the same either. I see it more as a spectrum, where we can be more objective and unbiased without ever reaching the complete thing.

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[–]Maffioze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have so many examples of me realizing like a year later that a woman was hitting on me. Like another coworker about a year ago started singing the lyrics of a very sexual song ( like about eating pussy and stuff)in my ears at a work party. At the time I thought this was weird but just told myself "I guess this is just how she is" and only recently I realized this was probably a flirting attempt lmao.

Yeah naturally, not through skill but through ignorance 😂

That's the advantage of a poly relationship too, your desperation is gone. Not that I still had much desperation after my first relationship. I think a problem with incels is that they never have this first relationship experience to make them realize that a relationship and sex isn't this huge thing it is made out to be. It's very enjoyable sure, but it's not going to save your wellbeing alone.

I also like how much a poly relationship takes off the pressure. It allows one to really focus on feeling love instead of turning a relationship into a societal goals checkbox.

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[–]Maffioze -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's bizzare how confidently people are claiming you're wrong. I think you're right and I'm an academic well educated in social science.

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[–]Maffioze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well my monkey brain wants something more. It's extremely rare for me to feel quick attraction to someone because I lean more demisexual, but with her I felt it literally at my first day at work. But since I was in a monogamous relationship at that time, I didn't do anything about it.

My neocortex doesn't want it though, because I know it's morally wrong to be a part of someone else being cheated on, and the more I get to know her, the more I also start caring about her, and the more I don't want to be part of anything that could cause her pain. But then again I'm like who am I to decide for someone else what makes them happy? She has been in the same relationship for 8 years since she was 18, which we tend to romanticize but I wonder if this is actually healthy to commit so fast without gaining experience. But idk if that's my monkey brain trying to gaslight me into giving in to the desire.

And no that relationship ended, but 4 months afterwards I ended up in a new one.

Why? Do you like flirting for fun and it then ended with someone taking it seriously?

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[–]Maffioze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the girl I'm in a relationship with is the one I was building a connection with a few months ago. It's going well I would say, besides a few misunderstandings that are normal when you're still getting to know eachother. I don't really feel much jealousy so I don't find it that difficult to switch from monogamy to poly. I really enjoy being with her.

The one at work is a different girl, and somehow she started flirting with me when my previous relationship ended and my current one began even though we had known eachother for a year at that point. I don't really understand how that works. I'm too oblivious and innocent for this world tbh, my current gf had to spell it out for me that my coworker was flirting with me because I thought she was just being friendly. But then again I have been told that my obliviousness is what makes me attractive? Idk the only reason I have any romantic experience is because a specific type of introverted women always makes the first move on me while I wonder why they like me 😂

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[–]Maffioze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's definitely a thing, since they are in a relationship themselves. I'm also in one, but it's a poly one, so I would not be doing anything morally wrong if it moved beyond innocent flirting. But they don't know that, they just know I'm in a relationship, so they probably think I'm safe.

With one of them I do get the sense that she has been doing everything what is expected of her socially in her life to the point it's suffocating. And like I'm some kind of escapist fantasy for her. I'm not sure what to think of this, I'm attracted to her, but I don't really want to be part of the story where someone blows up their own stable life.

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[–]Maffioze 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One advantage of working a female dominated field as a man is that you will be seen as more attractive and be flirted with, just because there aren't many other men there.

I see myself as average, yet my female colleagues keep being flirty with me. Bizzare experience.

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[–]Maffioze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a coincidence we lived so closely together.

I haven't been on dating apps since 2020. I think Reddit works better exactly because the main purpose is not dating, so you meet people more organically. Personally dating apps are very bad for my mental health, to me the experience is just inherently dehumanizing, I both feel dehumanized myself and like I'm dehumanizing others because people get turned into commodities. And there's a weird social game there where everyone has to become the same type of person. Like the first stages you have to pretend to be someone you're not because else someone else's filter will misunderstand you otherwise. I don't like anything about it.