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haloiscoolisbak posted...

Sometimes it's good to get a strangers objective opinion

You won't get that here either rofl.

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So she's the female equivalent of gay/bisexual men making the same egotistical claim about "turning" straight men.

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That's not mysterious. That's Detroit.

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Most people who have seen the live theater shows know why this obviously would not have translated well into mainstream cinema.

Part of the reason they went to see the live theater shows was because it was a live theater experience.
The issue with this being adapted into cinema is similar to why very few people would bother to pay to watch a feature film about opera...

It's just not the same.

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Remember Edgemaster?

No.

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Yes, she is still qualifies as a thing.

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I have (pretty typical for young sexually out-going gay men).

Would not recommend it if what you're looking for is an actual long term relationship.
Not usually the department for that, despite what oodles of lying privileged Instagramers claim...

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So far I'm liking it.

I personally don't mind the swearing (it's an adult show about villains). I'm enjoying the new takes on certain characters...and I really did not expect to. Yet they're written in a way that still won me over. The show's also supposed to be a comedy. The typical dark and gothic edginess of the comics can only stretch so far to support that, so naturally some of the characters were going to need a personality makeover to really fit in. Overall I'm having a good time watching it and hoping it stays the course.

I know the advertising may have set off alarms for some people worried it's another cringy "SJW" attempt at hijacking comic icons and bleeding excessive in-your-face girl power all over the place, but...this series does not seem to me like it's doing that. I was pleasantly surprised it does not actually go full steam down that route. And if you pay close enough attention you start to notice that the main characters are just all over the place socially/politically. It's not really shoving feminist agendas down the viewers' throats. It's like the DC version of Seinfeld and if you like that concept, I think it's pretty watchable.

I know there are some gender issue themes thrown in here and there (which makes sense when you think about it considering who the main character is and one of her biggest origin controversies is). However, these moments surprisingly don't make up the bulk of the scenarios, just minor plot points. I guess what I'm trying to say is this is not a "super feminist" show. In fact the main character, Harley Quinn, actually makes a lot of not-so-feminist decisions through out the episodes if you pay attention. Like the first moment she has an opportunity to throw together her own criminal gang, she doesn't race out and team up with angry man-hating she-villains. She grabs henchmen instead and actually treats them on a similar level. Her gang is such an oddball bunch, she herself fits right in with them. I like that.

I know one gripe by critics so far has been the gender political introduction of the Queen of Fables, who's initial thing is how she's convinced she can't be a successful female supervillain with a gang because "waah gender discrimination". However, I think a lot of the critics bothered by that don't realize that the show is full of comical tropes and cliches that play with the comedy. And the Queen is actually one herself: she's the classic bitter woman who ironically plays the victim and blames the world for her embarrassing past instead of admitting it was just her turn as a supervillain to get deservingly stomped by the Justice League. It actually had nothing to do with her gender; one the most powerful female Leaguers basically shoved her into a literary pokeball.

I don't know, I'm just not seeing any heavy political red flags so far. Me and my comic fan friends are happy for that and the goofy twists keep us interested. I hope the series stays that way.

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As much as I dislike a certain season, the planet's ecology requires it to survive and so do we.

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Thinking about becoming one of those older guys who goes out with younger women

Not exactly a new thing.

Plenty of older dudes been doing it for centuries within consent.
Keep in mind they had charm, wit, and resources you probably don't.

Not every man can pull that off, but then not every man was meant to...

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Are Hispanic men usually short?

Not where it counts.

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Why would you smack a man who's got a literal giant backing him up.....?

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It's more accurate to say gay couples CAN make more money than the average heterosexual couple.

However, it's definitely not a universal standard...particularly for gay men, who actually have LESS incentive to seek higher incomes since we have to deal with less partners initially judging us for how much we make. On average, we're more likely to critique each other on "sexual market value" (including sexual availability) rather than the top limit of our incomes. There are gay men who nitpick about their partner's yearly income (such as wannabe sugar babies), but they do not count anywhere near the majority.

Many gay men still keep relationship standards similar to most straight men, meaning a lot of us don't give a significant shit about how much our sexual partners make or educational degrees under their belt. We typically care more about how sexually attractive and available our partners keep themselves. Income is still widely considered important to a point, but it's really more in reference to our partners just being employed and not being a complete free-loader.


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No. It's not innately homosexual.

Lots of straight men take pride in building a nice looking body and respect fellow fitness enthusiasts, but still exclusively want women for sex partners.

Many of the guys who claim it is innately gay tend to be the same jealous losers with noodle arms and an allergy to exercise...

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People have been breaking up over letters and messages for centuries.

No, it's not nice. It's not supposed to be.
Buck up, buttercup...

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Parents who pester you with guilt trips about settling down for marriage...but doing zero for helping you achieve that...have no business telling you how to run your adult life.

Loving parents will at least try to help you find a partner since badgering you to settle down is THEIR goal.
So they need to chip in some work too, it's their idea.

Selfish parents will only shame you for being single because of how it impacts THEM, how it makes THEM feel.
They pressure you to find a relationship more for their sake and less for yours, all while putting in zero support.
They expect you to suffer and submit for their entitlement.

The former should be met with patience and gratitude being a family that truly wants to help you, albeit pushy.
The latter are nothing but horseshit and need to be booted from your life pronto...

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Men now have both social and potentially legal consequences for approaching women in various environments. This is what a large percentage of feminists demanded...

Well, enjoy.

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OP did not give full context.

It does not contain anything confirming exactly how TC's feels or what their exact intentions are.
You all are getting your jimmies rustled and jumping to some crazy assumptions over an arbitrary gif paired with vague phrasing...

If that's all it takes to successfully troll you, it's no wonder this is a feeding ground for them.

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yusiko posted...

https://www.queerty.com/hallmark-says-open-making-gay-holiday-movies-conservatives-freaking-20191204

As a gay person myself I would like to say please, NO.

It's weird and cringey enough when straight people binge watch formulaic Hallmark crap...

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Was there some scandal related to the show a while ago?
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I'm gay and see no issue with people choosing to get married.

I just would not recommend it to anyone living in the west in this present decade.
Today's abysmal marriage/divorce rates among hetero couples is not a great selling point; it's more of a cautionary tale.
And modern cohabitation can provide most of the same benefits now without the unnecessary government involvement butting in.

If anything, us gays cohabitate just fine and have much less incentive to bother getting married. Or should I say getting stuck in the same cultural trap...
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Dude is a cyborg.

Poor guy has already internalized the racism so much he still can't accept that his mom got knocked up by Optimus Prime.
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There's been virile strong-bodied seniors consensually banging 30 year olds for centuries.

Some people still have game after 50...
One of the ways the species has continued.
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Isn't implying that colors are gendered/non-gendered in the first place defeating the point?

This is just a weak ass attempt at politically pandering for products that are nothing new at all...
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

Actual modern dating
>meet good guy with a good job and good prospects
>spend the entire date being compared to some woman called Ronda
>get told since you haven't been a medalist in the Olympics you're not worth anything
>go home and cry about it on a dying Chinese Rabbit Herding Message Board
>date hooks up with Ronda

Help me Rhonda
Help, help me Rhonda
Help me Rhonda
Help, help me Rhonda
Help me Rhonda yeah
Get her out of my heart
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Not all republicans are racists.
Not all democrats think or act without racist intent...
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I thought it was going to be a complete clusterfuck, but was pleasantly surprised.
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Skitties have been mounting wailords for years.
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Why don't you have a girlfriend?

I'm gay and my boyfriend is not interested in an open relationship.

Just having a girlfriend for the novelty would not make sense either, since dick is so much cheaper and easier to work with...
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Do you think you've banged more women than your dad?

No. My goal was to bang more men than my dad.
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Garioshi posted...

He might be bi, but who cares?

The grand majority of heterosexual women want only heterosexual men for long term partners.
They do not consider a bisexual man "straight enough" for that.

This is actually a very common dilemma for bi men looking to settle down with women.
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Dating a single mom is fine. Not all of them are stereotypical nuts.
But there's been a song & dance to dating single parents for decades too...
BOTH the new boyfriend AND the single mom have their jobs to do in order to make it work.

Making the arrangement a success is not (and should not) be exclusively on the new man to do.

If stepping up to support the kids is expected to eventually be part of the new boyfriend's job, keeping that man interested and making the kids behave is the single mom's job.
The latter means giving the man an incentive to stick around and telling the kids to knock their bullshit off. And if he's going to be expected to pay up like a dad, then he needs to eventually be given some authority like a dad too.

If the single mom is already dumping expenses on the new boyfriend, she allows the kids to treat him like shit, and she gatekeeps intimacy behind taking care of her kids first...she does NOT seriously want to keep a boyfriend. She's not even trying. When she's dropping the ball that badly, the offer she's making is not attractive. Most guys are naturally not going to be down for it. And that's on her...

Guys got their own deals they pass in front of women they want to date.
And when the women they ask out keep saying no thanks...it's on the guys to change and sweeten those deals.

Same said for a single moms. If the household is a disaster and the kids are monsters, you got no business dragging someone else in before you fix that shit.
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Orlando_Jordan posted...

Remember when nerds were scared of a "haunted Zelda cartridge"?

No, Grandpa. Tell us all about it.
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Although women who identify as "incels" technically exist, the more commonly used term for it is "crazy cat ladies".

Equality.
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I do not recommend taking those offers very seriously as a guy unless you're rock bottom desperate.
Give it a try, sure, you could get lucky. But don't go broke treating it like it's got high odds of success.

It's not uncommon for the female friend trying to play Cupid to set you up with another friend who's also having trouble finding a match. And a lot of times that trouble is that the other friend is annoyingly awkward/distinctly unattractive/toxic as fuck/all of the above...basically someone who's single for a reason. It's even a little more insulting when your backstabbing friend is trying to hitch you up with their awkward foreveralone BFF in her clique and is basically just using you as a convenient male sacrifice to end the other woman's single status. Yeah some of them do actually pull that shit...

Just like men can often be poor judges of what a woman wants, the same can be said about women looking to set up their male friends. Most innately lack the insight into what different types of men prioritize in partners, including how those priorities can change between looking for hook ups and long term.

Take it from a typical gay guy who had to frequently explain to my gal pals why a biological woman who identifies as non-binary does not make her compatible with a generic homosexual male...
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No.

The only times a woman has ever turned me on is when they were talking about a sexy guy I was interested in.
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Studies have shown for decades that the majority of movie-going women today are simply not as interested in the formula used for this movie. It's an action flick loaded with pro-girl power scenes. That can work....but only when it's balanced out with a proportionate amount of action and social elements. According to critics and viewers, that was not achieved. It's a quirky girl power action flick with little action...

Some women are still willing to buy tickets for something like that. The grand majority of men are not.

Basically what multiple studies found is in general men and women have different expectations when going to see a typical "action flick" in theaters. Too much action in between the social events within a movie begins to turns off a % of female viewers (they lose interest in finishing the story). In contrast, too much/many social "intermissions" in between action scenes begins to turn off a % of male viewers in the same way. If a consumer of any gender doesn't feel like seeing the ending of a movie, they're notably less likely to come back for a second viewing or bother telling their friends to buy tickets.

Bottom line: the beat-em-up action flick genre is not that popular with women compared to men. Some women like that stuff, but not enough to make it a box office smash. Many of these women also prefer to watch with friends including male cohorts and relationship partners. But when the guys are bored out of their minds watching content loaded with girl power, expect them to fall asleep or turn to their phones.
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Error1355 posted...

We're all girls.

It's true. Error and I buy our tampons at the same store.
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Steve Nick posted...

- A main pokemon of this game is literally a fat electric dog with a yellow heart on its ass

Map is based on UK, so the dog is supposed to be Corgi-chu.
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Chesnaught
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That picture's funnier when you imagine it's Malcolm X holding Obama's head and MLK is just like "I don't know wtf these two are on, I'm not with them".
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I'm 3'2" tall and grant wishes with my gumdrop beard if you catch me.
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-hypocrite
-entitlement complex
-temperamental when anyone disagrees
-lack of empathy and refuses to value forgiveness
-treats diplomacy like a waste of time
-will excuse any of the above with "The end justifies the means."

I don't get along very well with narcissists demanding special treatment. My existence typically annoys them without even trying...
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ssjevot posted...

Weird how I never talked about legality and yet you go on and on about the law. No one asked if it was legal or should be legal in this topic to discriminate on it.

You didn't have to. Nor was it required to bring it up.

I don't care about the legality either....but it's part of the issue TC is talking about. That was my point. TC's aunt wants to be discriminatory with her selection of a nanny: well boohoo, you can't do anything to stop her. Currently nobody can because US laws are on her side.

I know, I used to work as an in-home caregiver for children. As someone who was formerly a "nanny" myself I can accurately tell you discriminatory selection for the job has been around since the job was born. And it's not going anywhere because people are commonly sensitive about who watches their children and enters their home. Race, gender, ethnicity, age, beliefs, even the applicant's appearance can be a legally untouchable reason for the clients to turn you down. And no laws today can effectively change that.

You choose to be a nanny, you choose to accept the high possibility of being discriminated against. No #hashtag nanny movement is going to change that. I don't give a shit about the right or wrong over it. My days of caring about that are over. But out of experience I can assure you it's a case of discrimination that's not going anywhere no matter how much it irks you. TC's auntie is not on the fringe with her preferences.
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teepan95 posted...

ssjevot posted...

There is a big difference between can work legally in the US and US citizen. It's one thing to want to follow the law, it's another to just straight up discriminate against foreign workers.

We're talking about a nanny position. Discrimination is not uncommon in regards to the job field at all. Even licensed childcare businesses within the US openly facilitate it.

You can stand on that soapbox, but this is an employment field where not much is going to change even today. It deals with home and family. As of this date people are legally free to be as "discriminatingly" preferential in their choices with those categories just as much as their dating profiles. As many before you had found, you would be hard pressed to legislate that away. And even if you could, households in disagreement with the legislated change would just take another route. It's their house, their rules that ultimately call the shots in who gets hired....including who is allowed to participate.
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Ok let's really blow some minds:

BOTH scar and TC have valid points...because women are not a hive mind.
Both types of women mentioned exist.

When it comes to the phrases like "no guy wants me", what some women mean is they don't actually feel what they consider love with the men they are currently spending time with. They keep running into men who just want sex and play games. It's very typical for these women to develop depression over a perceived lack of long term romance in their sex lives and a feeling of being used.

Meanwhile some other women really are outspokenly bummed out that the higher quality men they're actually interested in for commitment rarely share that interest. The exceptional guys they're really holding out for have different long term goals and often ignore opportunities to settle down. This is due in part to the reality that the more impressive and privileged a man is the LESS incentive he has to bother with monogamy (what the grand majority of women consider a relationship standard). High tier men already enjoying bachelorhood in their prime have little reason to change their already comfortable lifestyles to settle down with one committed partner, a routine that can reliably continue well into old age if played right. Many of these men DON'T actually die unhappy over a lack of marriage. Quite the contrary...

This can leave some women seeking high status men for marriage in a rut, because nailing one down for commitment has gotten harder thanks to social media, not easier. Social media, instead, opened the flood gates for competition...not just for men looking for partners, but also women.
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Parappa09 posted...

no nut is stupid and i'm 99% sure it's just another name for no fap

coz otherwise there's no benefit to closing yourself off from sex for a month

It's a meme gag targeting suckers by attempting to convince them to abstain for an imaginary incentive. It's just a ploy to see who will fall for it.

There's such a thing as masturbating too much, but as a health professional myself I can tell you it's better a man in his prime does NOT neglect the needs of his plumbing (and in relation, his psychological health). Men in their prime years are SUPPOSED TO ejaculate on a semi-regular basis. It's simple biology and has long term health benefits.

The men who statistically have the highest rates of testicular and prostate health issues (including cancer) after middle age are able-bodied men between 40-70 who have deliberately abstained most of their lives from routine ejaculation for a multitude of reasons such as: stern religious values, mental disabilities, medical ignorance, lack of libido, or just simply a drought of sexual partners (which is fairly common for people of advanced age).

That's right, the lonely old man down the street who's single after his wife died can still substantially lower his chances of testicular/prostate cancer by cranking one off once in a while. Some experts have literally phrased it as "use it or lose it ".

Healthy able-bodied men are designed to bust a nut on the regular and hampering that biological function fucks up the system in the long term. There's a ton of valid accredited medical research that supports this...
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Kaiiwa posted...

Gamerguymass posted...

I always love how arguments in favor of more school always leads to "but the Japanese go to school year round!" at some point. Failing to take into account that the Japanese also habe the highest teenage suicide rate in the world. Hmmm...

If this is based on my comments, I made no favor supporting how Japanese schools = better. I merely displayed how they use their time after school that involves them coming back later but not needing more study time.

Furthermore, suicide causes are generally from bullying or home problems that no one catches on to until its too late. Surely not much of a different reasoning to American teens. No teenager decides to die because "we go to school year round".

Actually yeah, some do.

Look up "tiger parents".
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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Assume the couple has talked about the proposal and the proposee has expressed the desire of having family audience members.

In my opinion, that's fine then. You've both basically reached a consensus and just want to inform the families. It's a very typical thing for couples to do.

The times I had it dropped on me were both awkward surprises and my partners were just antsy to move things forward without checking how I felt first. They figured having witnesses we were close to would have made me more likely to say yes. Normally they would have been right. What they didn't account for is my trademark cynicism kicking in whenever I feel manipulated and taken advantage of, which immediately nixed any anxiety of saying "no" out of principle.

Honestly, if either of them had proposed with more tact and waited for us to feel closer, I would have likely said yes. They were both in just too much of a hurry considering either relationship had only been going for less than a year...
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