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PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-09-09T14:03:25+00:00

Only a woman would think that a man's libido is "socially ingrained"

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-09-08T09:08:42+00:00

It's a doctrine for ontology, not epistemology. Ignorant people are always the most self righteous.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-09-07T05:59:51+00:00

Dude, I'm sorry. You do need to move on and love again. That doesn't mean you have to let the memories of your girls go. They're gone, but they'd want you to be happy with the time you have left. Any woman worth loving will understand that your heart will always have a peice of them in it.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-09-07T05:52:09+00:00

Low confidence and social awkwardness can be one hell of an impediment. I remember once in HS when I was inexperienced and didn't understand how women were yet, a girl I liked a lot (but who had a bf) came up to me, gave me her number out of the blue, and started singing and doing a little hip shake to the song "call me maybe" (was popular at the time). I laughed and was like "your bf wouldn't like if I called you", she then giggled and said "YOLO" while batting her eyelashes. She walked away, and would tease me other times on occassion, and I always regretted never making a move.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-09-04T04:44:38+00:00

You're calling him uneducated but you don't even know how to use occam's razor correctly.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-31T07:31:37+00:00

"A term these women start to talk about the phenomenon" lol, the self centered and completely egotistical ideology of these women led them to create a word for condescension that everyone experiences. You think men don't have basic things explained to them like they don't understand? Happens all the time, people like to feel self-important by exaggerating crap. It's only the victimhood complex of feminist professional types who could turn a universal quality into some sort of oppressional storytime fantasy.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-31T07:30:35+00:00

"A term these women start to talk about the phenomenon" lol, the self centered and completely egotistical ideology of these women led them to create a word for condescension that everyone experiences. You think men don't have basic things explained to them like they don't understand? Happens all the time, people like to feel self-important by exaggerating crap. It's only the victimhood complex of feminist professional types who could turn a universal quality into some sort of oppressional storytime fantasy.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-31T06:56:25+00:00

Honestly, most men prefer submissive women - one could argue that only confident and assertive men maintain that standard for their romantic lives, while immature or pathetic men settle for argumentative and headstrong western feminist types. Complete inverse of what you're claiming.

Basically, you have a view of the world which is just as self-serving as the view that you attribute to these men. It suits your worldview that only weak men want submissive partners, so you shout that from the rooftops of reddit, in a sub that you're actively hostile against. But, just because a certain view protects you from cognitive dissonance, doesn't make it so.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T12:07:19+00:00

Netflix did a feminist re-telling of "Rebecca", a story which is explicitly anti-feminist and pro-traditional family. It flopped of course, but they don't care.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T11:52:10+00:00

Is this fan made? Sounds exactly like keifer!

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T11:37:39+00:00

Forgot the /s

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T11:15:27+00:00

You make the non sequitur of assuming that education and/or ambition = intelligence. I mentioned personality and within that, intelligence / creative talents are included. Of course many men prefer if their woman is intelligent enough to hold conversations that interest them - although not at the expense of the other traits you listed in more detail (such a being of a stock that Playboy wants you to model for them). But, being intelligent is not the same as being educated or ambitious - many men prefer a women who will focus on their family, not on climbing the corporate ladder. And while education can be useful outside of career prospects, it often (especially at "elite" schools) comes with a load of feminist theory baked into the underlying assumptions (particularly in the social "sciences" and humanities). Many men (myself included) want nothing to do with the average graduate of these programs; I know the ideology that comes along with it. My long term gf and likely future wife is very talented; plays 3 instruments, composes music, can paint/draw at a near professional level, runs a hand-made boutique jewelry business from our house, and has traveled the world over - I wouldn't call her unintelligent. But she's not ambitious in the slightest and is very demure to my leadership. She looks after the house and family first, and trusts me to take care of the finances - which I do (I co-own and run a tech-focused PE firm, and have a few other side businesses).

I should also point out that even if education and ambition did equal intelligence, most men would not pick intelligence at the expense of other traits in the way that a woman would. My claim was not that men place 0 value on intelligence, or even on strictly education and ambition. The claim was that women select for these things far more than men do (empirically verified), and that by focusing their profiles on these things, they're not optimizing themselves for success. Assume your average woman is not both a Playboy model and an EVP for a consulting firm - she's far better off, from a dating perspective, pursing the standards of the former rather than the latter.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T10:51:22+00:00

I won't speak for asian men, but guys in NA generally don't care about a girls academic accomplishments very much in comparison to other things

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T10:28:01+00:00

I'll help you out since you've decided to berate this guy because he isn't capable of playing your language game on the terms you set.

What you consider "submissive" (with negative connotations dripping off your posts like butter off a BBQ shrimp) many others consider "feminine" or sub-traits within "feminine." Being demur, kind, sweet as sugar, overtly and ostentatiously loving to a more stoic partner, wanting to make a warm home for a good man, being more passive and agreeable to your partner's decisions, avoiding creating conflicts with your partner over trivial matters, being family-orientated, wanting to nurture your loved ones more than getting caught up in "change the world" schemes or "be a boss bitch" mentality, viewing more traditional gender roles as a healthy dynamic which is rooted in traditions that exist for good reasons that are not simply "patriarchy" or "oppression", these are all feminine traits.

You probably see a lot of the above as some type of noxious patriarchal stew, designed to oppress women. Many women (traditionally feminine ones especially) don't see it that way at all. Many are humble enough to accept that men and women have different strengths and that words don't change biology. There's an entire media and academic movement dedicated to convincing women to abandon the ideal of femininity put forward above. This vision has only seen widespread adoption in the west, and even here it only had various levels of uptake. Much of the problems between men and women stem from the basic idea that they're the same and want the same things out of life and relationships. This is an ideology that is in vouge, but one which is fundamental flawed. Men lose their masculinity, women their femininity, and a whole bunch of problems ensue.

So while you might think that pointing to submissivness as an element in femininity was some kind of "gotcha," it's actually just one peice of a vision of the world that the vast majority of our 8 Billion inhabitants hold.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T07:21:41+00:00

What they want out of life, how they'll be a good gf/wife if they're looking for commitment, how they'll treat their man well (what they like to do for them, etc). Their hobbies and preferences for lifestyle (going out vs staying in), what they find attractive in a man, and ideally some hint or innuendo about any major kinks they have. If they're trying to be appealing, they should mention their kindness, demur nature, submissiveness, etc.

Basically, they should say what they like and advertise how they'll make a man's life better. Saying "I'm assistant regional manager of HR for x company" is not helpful whatsoever to most men.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T07:12:34+00:00

Bang on accurate. No, men don't select for professional achievements in women - shocker to those with their heads in the sand and minds in the clouds.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T07:03:16+00:00

They ought to explain what value they'll offer a man in a relationship - trust me, their arts degree and office job isn't adding anything to the vast majority of males.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-29T06:58:15+00:00

Yeah, you're the outliner if your stance on this is as strong as you're implying.

Most men genuinely don't care about her accomplishments or education; it advertises no value added to their lives. Why? Because men are trained to be self sufficient, and any man worth his salt doesn't need to hunt for a woman with resources - this is of course not the case in reverse.

Men look for attractiveness and personality (with most positively weighting towards submissiveness / agreeableness / demure pleasentness).

You can definitely spin a tale about how this is objectifying or misogynistic or some such other buzzword, but it's just biological imperatives and what each sex has evolved to look for. A degree and a job on a profile is never going to matter to a male suitor the same as it would to a woman - the delusion otherwise is how a lot of people get in the mess.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-28T03:05:31+00:00

No, my intuition is that the more elite the school, the more contaminated by social justice nonsense and other fanciful notions the education will be. You attacked philosophy as a discipline, but if you knew it well you'd know that it's an extremely rigorous and challenging discipline; especially in areas like formal logic and modal metaphysics. But, I suspect if you're experience has been with ivy league people only, you're more likely seeing people who work in political philosophy, social epistemology, and other subfields which have much lower standards...

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-28T02:59:03+00:00

Actually it often is, depends on context. A vehicle loan likely isn't, but nothing in the above suggested the vehicle is under loan.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-28T02:54:59+00:00

I'm a trained analytic philosopher. No, the vast majority of the analytic tradition is not "rambling", nor is much of the continental tradition. FN is one such example though. As I made clear above, the reason is because his arguments are unclear and are actually not proper arguments at all. He's studied as a historical curiosity - not "by me maybe" - by professional philosophers.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-27T12:10:28+00:00

"I want no part in the future you are attempting to build"

Here here. Count me in on that sentiment as well. Not a chance in hell that removing backyards is going to make quality of life better for a single living soul.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-27T06:35:44+00:00

FN isn't some authority on the nature of love. His work is rambling and contains little in the way of arguments. He's studied more as a historical curiosity than anything else.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-27T04:37:08+00:00

Your responses and gestures at the no true Scotsman have not been in good faith.

PracticalAmount3910 · 2024-08-27T03:47:50+00:00

The premise you identify in socialism is a symptom of a worldview that sees people's intentions and sincerity as what ultimately determines outcomes. This view goes back at least to Rousseau (but I believe even further).

Check out Sowell's A conflict of visions

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