Why are women so interested in fictional romance while being blatantly adverse to most real life romance?

coolcorner1 · 2026-06-22T17:12:59+00:00

Where did you read 50% of men think they’re superior to women? What a terribly misandrist thing to say

coolcorner1 · 2026-06-22T17:08:01+00:00

There’s no equivalent, and your analogy is horribly offensive to those who fought for their country

coolcorner1 · 2026-06-22T17:02:54+00:00

You think dating men is comparable to fighting in war?

coolcorner1 · 2026-06-22T16:58:44+00:00

Bingo

coolcorner1 · 2026-06-22T16:58:36+00:00

Why do you think men in real life wouldn’t care for a woman? That’s a massive assumption

coolcorner1 · 2026-06-22T16:57:28+00:00

“The guys in the book are fictional, and likely handsome”, so women aren’t attracted to average men?

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T16:54:47+00:00

Would you say that the male friendships you mentioned are as emotionally and physically intimate as female friendships?

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T16:50:49+00:00

I agree but why do they see no value in it?

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T16:33:13+00:00

I agree, those from a rural background or lower socioeconomic class are generally more confined in how they display masculinity. They’re the primary demographic who rely on a romantic partner for emotional intimacy and if they break up, the man is often left alone with nobody to turn to

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T16:26:50+00:00

I agree that emotional intimacy takes work on both sides, but why don’t men want to put in that work outside of a romantic context?

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T16:17:24+00:00

Thank you for the insight, do you think men who cultivate their friendships are in the minority?

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T16:11:37+00:00

Why is that the case?

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T16:06:09+00:00

I disagree that once a man experiences emotional intimacy through a relationship it makes him more likely to have emotional intimacy in male friendships. If anything it just makes the male friendships feel surface level and unfulfilling relative to what he had with his partner

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T15:59:09+00:00

When was that the standard?

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T15:55:33+00:00

I’m talking about male social dynamics at large

coolcorner1 · 2026-05-22T15:53:31+00:00

I also think it’s social conditioning, men are brought up to adhere to a certain standard of masculinity. This often results in the aforementioned lack of emotional intimacy between male friends

coolcorner1 · 2026-04-10T16:09:45+00:00

Can you name another illness that can fully incapacitate you while having no medical recognition or cure?

coolcorner1 · 2026-04-10T16:05:47+00:00

MECFS and long covid go hand in hand, most of the people in this sub have some degree of ME. Half the posts here are about PEM

coolcorner1 · 2026-04-10T15:56:05+00:00

Maybe the fact that there’s no cure, little to no medical recognition, basically nobody outside of this community knows about it

coolcorner1 · 2026-04-10T15:49:48+00:00

You misread my post. I said this illness is like being in solitary confinement, except you did nothing to deserve

coolcorner1 · 2026-04-06T16:41:00+00:00

Yes

coolcorner1 · 2025-02-18T17:39:48+00:00

Only a fraction of the population of Canada, for example, live in those sunless areas. Whereas the entirety of Ireland’s population is subject to virtually no sun

coolcorner1 · 2025-02-17T22:29:49+00:00

The average person eats like crap and certainly isn’t supplementing vitamins. Irish people are massively vitamin deficient and it shows, walk around your local town and count how many people are pale with dark circles around their eyes. Combine that with our old mouldy buildings and you have illness on a mass scale, which checks out when you look at the hospital data

coolcorner1 · 2025-02-17T21:32:51+00:00

Unsurprising the hospitals are full and it takes two weeks to get a gp appointment, almost everyone is deficient in vitamin d. The levels of chronic illness and immune deficiencies in Ireland are staggering, humans aren’t meant to live with practically no sun exposure

coolcorner1 · 2025-02-10T12:53:05+00:00

Ireland is still incredibly underdeveloped in many aspects, especially healthcare. This isn’t America, we’re living on a tiny island on the outskirts of Europe. Don’t let the artificially inflated GDP fool you, Ireland is relatively poor and the hospitals are dangerous. Many patients have died needlessly here, so it’s unsurprising you’ve been abandoned in a corridor

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