• Darren@sopuli.xyz
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    I - a bloke - sometimes paint my nails. If they’re still painted when I go to work you can guarantee I’ll get a few comments from guys questioning whether they “should be worried” around me*. Meanwhile, the few women who work there think it’s wonderful and have offered to do them properly for me. _ *they needn’t be worried. My standards aren’t that low

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    I’d be more interested in painting my claws if it didn’t manage to smell so. Considring you’re literally smearing it on your body to sit for several weeks, you’d think they’d have developed less toxic formulas that don’t smell like you tipped over the entire Tamiya display at the hobby shop.

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    I had a goth friend who would always get laid without much trouble. At some point he got a normal job and had to “become a normie”, and I learned that it wasn’t because he was a goth, it was because he was a complete asshole with women, and some women, for some reason, can’t resist assholes.

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      When you say things like “some women can’t resist assholes” it sounds like red pill rhetoric. A better way to say it might be like “some assholes prey on women’s insecurities”. Keep the focus on the person who is the problem, not the victims.

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        It’s not just preying on their insecurities. Everyone has insecurities, but not everyone will let you into their pants just for calling them a worthless piece of shit or something. The women in question must have some deeper issues. Because I also have a friend who demonstrated to me how you can just go on Tinder and write horrible shit to women and get surprisingly good results.

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        I keep the focus where I want, that doesn’t change the asshole-victim situation, and I won’t save anyone if I change the wording.

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        This also takes away agency from people. In fact, I am sure that there would be a way to diagnose every single relationship ever as a form of abuse in which someone takes advantage of someone else’s something.

        Adults are responsible for their choices, and particularly in the case of “assholes”, that is often associated with being assertive, dismissive and some people just like that kind of “I am the main character” features. Maybe there are even some deep rooted evolutionary reasons for that, I don’t know. Anyway, painting anything as victim-oppressor dichotomy IMHO is nonsense.

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        A better way to say it might be like “some assholes prey on women’s insecurities”. Keep the focus on the person who is the problem, not the victims.

        idk I think that’s needlessly condescending to women, not all of them dating assholes are victims, some just like assholes because they like asshole behavior because they’re also an asshole.

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        When you say things like “some assholes prey on women’s insecurities” it’s incredibly condescending, especially when you consider that women can also be assholes.

        Like begets like. I’ve known too many couples where both of the people in the relationship are trash.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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        implies confidence.

        nope. it implies a craven amount of insecurity.

        it says something though that so many people assume this, it’s certainly not just you.

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          Whatever. It gives off the impression of confidence. We’re trying to explain observed phenomena here, not cast moral judgements.

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          In my case, you’re wrong, the guy is like a tank, insecurity is not the case. I see some people trying to “dig deeper”:

          • “maybe the women have insecurities, so it is them who are to blame”
          • “maybe the asshole is not an asshole, he just has a childhood trauma” No, he is a confident asshole, and his “charm” works one some women (and not each of them falls into made-up categories). People look for patterns too much. “I’m a red-piller” - lol, that’s a first.
            Note, I’m not protecting the guy, but he is not a comic-book villain with an origin story. He just happens to be successful in finding one-night stands because of a personal trait.
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            the guy is like a tank

            a lot of people who over-invest on physical attributes have serious insecurities.

            I hold to my premise. it in no way discredits him being an asshole in his coping with these issues.

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        Certain women like asshole confidence. Typically the type to write “I’m a bitch, deal with it” in their bios

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          Damn I need to power off. I’m like how does anyone write in their BIOS? I’m pretty sure it’s just settings. 😅

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          I’ve known many women who were very nice and intelligent, who dated assholes. Usually they end the relationship thinking “ugh, why did I do that? That guy was such an asshole.”

          They do this because women are human, and do the very human thing of making mistakes and regretting them.

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      I’m an early X’r, I lived through the 80’s as a teen and young adult. Teal and pinks, shoulder pads, hair spray…

      We had fun with style. I lived part in the US and Europe, Madrid in particular, during the “Movida” (look it up). We really dgaf.

      With the years I slowly started to mute, to blend in.

      I’m now back in dgaf territory, and I’m having fun!

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    been low key wanting to do Egyptian pharaoh shit for years but I work blue collar in hick country and don’t dare until I can move out of the states

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    This depends on the guy. Some can pull it off, others can’t. I’m one of those who can’t. If I put make up, I wouldn’t look goth, I would look like a serial killer lol

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    Can confirm.

    I’ve let several women do my make up and they’re always super enthusiastic that I’m down for that.

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      Upvote for this guy loving his wife very much, specifically. It really is plenty, isn’t it?

      (If I didn’t have that point to make, this comment would have been a “that guy’s wife’s pussy is plenty for me as well” joke.)

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    As others have said - this is not really how to get girls to be into you. This is one particular person’s fetish. They like goth-y, androgenous guys.

    If you are a goth-y, androgenous guy, and you have wanted to wear black eyeliner but felt nervous about it and have been putting it off - here’s your cue. Go do that.

    If you aren’t, then don’t do that. It might help you out a little since, as OP implies, it will make you stand out. But since you aren’t presenting yourself, but rather a charicature of someone else, you will feel inauthentic in the look, women will notice that you feel weird, and you won’t be much better off than you started. Maybe worse off, if your normal outfit was already working.

    In the… Let’s call it the “autistic guys getting laid community”, there is a lot of chatter around “archetype”. How you dress and style yourself is a conscious decision you make every day, and it is how you make your first impression on any women you want to sleep with. So if you were to introduce yourself to a sexy somebody, what would you want to tell them about yourself? Well, first you need to tell them that you give enough of a shit about what you look like to put some time into looking good. Next, you’d want to tell them interesting things about yourself - what you value, what your job or hobbies are, what communities you are part of. But at the same time, you want to make sure you are communicating well - putting together an outfit based on “I just like it” and “this has something to do with who I am” is like introducing yourself in mandarin to a girl in Barcelona. Fitting your outfit to something that is immediately understandable within your broader culture is called dressing to your “archetype”. Are you a skateboarder? Then dress like a skateboarder - stylishly ripped jeans, t shirt, flannel, beanie. A businessman? Wear a suit or a polo. A communist revolutionary? Rock your Che beret!

    What makes women universally cream themselves? Say it with me: confidence. And a confident man is going to dress in a way that stands out and expresses who he is, because he knows that this is a great way to attract others to him who are similar. So: look good; look different; look like something identifiable.