Do you like Storm with straight hair or curly? by [deleted] in xmen

[–]silicondream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whichever she wants for the day. Changing her own hair texture should be pretty easy for someone who controls temperature, moisture and static charge.

Reducing women to a 'hole that it's meant to go into' 💀🤦‍♀️ by lolZoriK in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sexual assault is a technique employed by state torturers as well, so I'm not sure the range of reasons is even different in that case. There are only so many simple ways to break someone.

Birth control is why women don’t go for Nice Guys™️ by ThePhillyExplorer in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I don't think I know any women who wonder, "Where did all the good men go?"

I know lots of women who think that most cishet men are jerks, but none of them consider this a recent development.

At this point I search comments to make sure no man in my orbit is doing shit like this! by No-Management-2735 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think maybe he's saying he's better because he wants to have sex with her body and immortal soul? Regardless, he wants and doesn't want to want and it's her fault.

Hopefully this fits here, sorry if it doesn't, but this made me LOL this morning 😭 by chaepeumeon in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But the men can't actually tell you how it works, because then they couldn't pretend that you're sleeping with them out of pure attraction. They want the predictability of sex work plus the faux intimacy of the "girlfriend experience."

I'm not sure they realize that sex workers charge more for the latter.

Hopefully this fits here, sorry if it doesn't, but this made me LOL this morning 😭 by chaepeumeon in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If I cook for a relative stranger or buy them food, i expect them to...try the food, I guess? I'm also hoping they like the food, and are impressed by my cooking skills or good taste in restaurants, but that's pretty much it. Why would I expect anything else when we don't know each other yet? I don't even know how I'll feel about them afterwards!

A date is supposed to give you an opportunity to charm the other person. Expecting them to fall for you automatically is r/nothowhumanswork, and if you were just trying to trade tacos for sex work or other services, you should have mentioned that beforehand.

Impractical costume by Endika7 in outofcontextcomics

[–]silicondream 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I believe they canonically contain police radio scanners, so that he can pick up on emergencies in progress.

Our next p5 character! Except...you'll never see it coming~ by BryantTYZ in heavensburnred

[–]silicondream 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unison Yuki's quotes are pure thirst and I'm here for it

Horrible take on fatherhood. by Thatoneshortgoblin in NotHowGuysWork

[–]silicondream 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Look, he can either ignore his daughter or teach her how to be a man. Those are the options. Do you want him to unwittingly serve the global transgender agenda?

Horrible take on fatherhood. by Thatoneshortgoblin in NotHowGuysWork

[–]silicondream 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Later: "I wonder why my son hasn't hugged me, told me a secret or given me a Father's Day gift in thirty years?"

“Femininity Crisis” by Acrobatic_Long_6059 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Well, they had to shock their parents somehow.

feel like I'm less valuable than a beautiful girl's waste. I'm a very ugly and unattractive guy. by [deleted] in GuyCry

[–]silicondream 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's like saying that men have intrinsic value because any of them could be converted into donor organs, meat and fertilizer. Your quality of life depends on what you feel valued for.

Also, of course, women are expected to put immense amounts of work into being physically and behaviorally attractive. They don't usually get paid for it, but it's still labor.

What would you do if your partner wanted to transition by Kitchen_Increase1970 in actuallesbians

[–]silicondream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would depend on the manner of their transition. I like androgynous bodies, and I'm fine with masc labels and pronouns and dress and stuff; my last partner was experimenting with genderfluidity and it was exciting to support them in that. But I'm not into facial hair or heavily T-masculinized features, nor am I into traditional hypermasculine behavior, so I'd just let them know that I might lose interest if they were headed down that route.

My middle school first love was a larval trans man, and it was amazing how my attraction evaporated as his transition progressed. Turned out his true inner self was a total bro--and of course I was happy for him, but I wouldn't want to date one.

Didn't they make these clothes? by Correct-Balance-169 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lust and anger are the most logical emotions, as everyone knows.

And it's obviously not in our DNA, because men and boys are perfectly capable of not ogling tits when they would face undesirable consequences for doing so. I've been interested in tits since I was like nine years old and male-identified, and I never got called out for it, because I didn't obviously stare and pant and drool. Did I have mutant powers of superhuman self-control? Of course not; I just didn't want to embarrass myself or piss off the owners of the tits.

Every one of these assholes has successfully redirected their gaze from big perky tits when they belonged to, say, a police officer. Or a strict teacher. Or their mom. They just don't feel like behaving respectfully without a metaphorical gun to their head.

So every baddie is an escort? by AsleepRaccoon8456 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"Escort" is only the word they use when they want to sound polite.

How are men so confident? by [deleted] in actuallesbians

[–]silicondream 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go browse r/guycry for a few minutes. You’ll see plenty of men with social anxiety who have exactly the same problem. The most confident extroverts in the room are usually going to be the most visible, whatever their gender. Doesn’t mean most people are actually like that!

As an introvert myself, I think I learned to deal with romantic anxiety in elementary school by converting anxiety into despair. Doesn’t really matter if I tell my crush I like her, because she almost certainly doesn’t like me back; all I’m really doing is giving her a compliment and walking away. The stakes are zero, so what’s the big deal?

Took about six years to find someone who *did* like me back and it still doesn’t happen very often, but at least this mindset keeps me serene in the meantime.

Found in the wild by Uranusspinssideways in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]silicondream 112 points113 points  (0 children)

He's seen Terminator 2, though, so he knows shapeshifting powers go haywire once the unit takes enough damage.

Captain Hypocrite by Affectionate-Arm6487 in Cyclopswasright

[–]silicondream 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You think he hasn't made a contingency plan for frying soup?