Baby It's Cold Outside: A Guide To Wholesome Flirting?
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the queer polyamorous male/female romance novella Novella by Zeena West and her relationship with the song "A Guide to Dating" by Frank LeWiser, as well as the cultural norms that have made it impossible to date women in the 21st century.
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for our christmas episode right now baby it's cold outside is a guide to dating look like it's yes
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it's what makes the song even more wholesome is that it was written in 1944 by frank lewiser who
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was so saying it with his wife lynn so like this is something also that like this is demonstrative
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by the kind of interplay that led a husband and wife to get married like this is the kind of
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behavior that leads to lasting long-term pair bonded relationships very interesting if you
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contrast it with other songs that are that are christmasy like the the two songs that both have
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the same oh the more modern ones last christmas i gave you my heart and the very next day you gave
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it away and ariana grande singing you know i don't want to give it all away if you won't be here next
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year but it's important to remember that the enemy isn't women it's the cultural group that has
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enforced these norms that have made it impossible to date women would you like to know more
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did you read that loud enough for me to use it in the recording i can read the thing
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their troublesome crush by zan west in this queer polyamorous male female romance novella
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two metamors realize they have crushes on each other while planning their shared partner's birthday
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party together ernest a jewish autistic demiromantic queer fat trans man submissive
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and nora a jewish disabled queer fat femme cis woman switch have to contend with an age gap a desire
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not to mess up their lovely polyamorous dynamic as metamors the fact that ernest has never been
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attracted to a cis person before and the reality that they are romantically attracted to each other
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all while planning their dominant partner's birthday party and trying to do a really good job
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so it looks like from the cover the woman is much older than the man obese and with a cane so
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yeah the cover is i mean i would say the cover is well done in that it seems to be fairly accurate we
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have the two overweight people dressed in classic i don't know progressive style standing in front of
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what i believe is a cupcake counter looking extremely awkward and unattractive oh my gosh well here's a
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reddit thread that really got me when i read it because it aligns with so much of what we've been
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talking about on the channel yeah oh the 20 year old dating one my 20 year old son doesn't date
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his friends don't date my friends kids don't date what's going on yeah when i was in my late teens
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and early 20s life for my friends and me revolved around meeting girls my son and his friends who
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are athletic and outgoing don't seem to put a lot of emphasis on dating they play a lot of online video
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games and have boys outing once in a while one will hook up with a random girl they met on an app
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rarely does one have a girlfriend this seems to be the norm for my friends kids too what's going on
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well and then when you go through the responses there are some recurring themes a lot of people
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just say like there's no reason to do it anymore you know there's there's no point other people say
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that it is too expensive and they can't afford to date anymore or they bemoan the loss of affordable
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third spaces basically places that aren't your home or your school or work where people can hang out
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and then a lot of people just talk about like not having game and then one one interesting comment
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that i thought wasn't was astute was balkanization of cultural touchstones and what they meant by that
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was that like in the past if you were both into gaming you played like the same three games if you were
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into anime you watched the same three anime now even if you are into a specific sub-genre like you
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weren't necessarily into the same thing so there are fewer people who share affinity networks really
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closely and i question that push back on that one i think that they are because i remember when i was
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in high school it was all about the bands that you know that no one else knew about or the games that
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you yeah no one else played it's a dominant hierarchy thing to show how obscure and advanced
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in a dominance hierarchy that's affiliated with this specific thing it's typically by showing how
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extremely affiliated you are with that thing and so people would front their dominance hierarchy by
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pushing that and in this to note this is not like a isolated phenomenon we'll put some graphs on the
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screen here but the rates of sex that people have been having while they're in high school
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has been dropping really dramatically over the last people have worked hard to make happen i mean i
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remember being in high school and they were like the rates of sex are so high i mean mission
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accomplished yeah mission accomplished no one's having sex anymore there you go um
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well i mean and and rates it's it's interesting i think our generation sometimes they can look at the
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younger generation and think of them as so sexually free you know like oh look at all this stuff that's
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allowed now like i would be allowed to have like 10 girlfriends at once and blah blah blah blah blah
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when in reality no just nobody's getting anything right like the the the level when we talk about
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like dating and sex markets being broken because it's not just dating markets it's not just
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marriage markets it's also sex markets it is it has gotten very hard i think for both males and
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females and for our christmas episode right now one thing that i was really meditating on in regards
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to this topic is the song baby it's cold outside because i've been listening to it recently and depending
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on the intonations and tonality used by the singers like there are ways to sing the song if you really
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want to make it sound rapey you can do that but generally speaking the song doesn't come off that
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way at all it comes off just like normal hitting on a girl from the past right and it reminds me very
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much of like many traditional dating methods mechanisms and mannerisms they're designed around
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plausible deniability making it more comfortable for people to make advances at partners in a way
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that one didn't make the other partner feel uncomfortable because they weren't like i'm
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gonna kiss you right now i want to have sex with you right now instead it is oh gosh i wish you didn't
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have to go home so that you could all each of you could have plausible deniability and if one person
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wasn't into it and clearly made signs of rejection of like nope i gotta go home now bye then both could
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pretend that there was never an advance made and both could pretend that they're happy to be just
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friends and so that kind of interplay is actually not only like not only especially helpful but also
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like protective of people's ability to say no it's actually like super it's better than directly asking
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for consent because you don't have to disappoint someone the same way yeah because then it does hurt
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somebody when you when you tell them no like that hurts somebody when you drop subtly that you're not
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interested that doesn't hurt them as much and it allows you to stay friends and allow things to not
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get awkward there was a reason that relationships worked this way there was a reason that flirting worked
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through this system of plausible deniability yeah and a lot of people could be like no she's explicitly
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saying she wants to go and it's like yeah but she's not going it's not like she's being held hostage
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what they are both telling each other with the words that they're using is i am interested in you
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yes in that explicit way but i need to see you be the one to say yes i'm interested in you back
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and what's the the the humor in the song comes from the fact that neither of them is stepping up
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and just being like yeah i'm actually interested yeah you can hear it's like there's this one line
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in the song where all your lips taste delicious no no no no gosh your your lips look delicious and
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then the next thing he says after the female says her part is gosh your lips taste delicious so
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they're already hooking up and that that's the humor they are hooking up while pretending
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yeah to each other we're all better go home well you should yeah like i better go home i don't know
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about this what are people gonna think if i stay with a guy like you all night
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oh my gosh i can't be responsible for my actions anymore what makes the song even more wholesome
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is that it was written in 1944 by frank lewiser who was so saying it with his wife lynn so like
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this is something also that like this is demonstrative by the kind of interplay that led
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a husband and wife to get married like this is the kind of behavior that leads to lasting long-term
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pair-bonded relationships you know it's not even like this isn't even sung by like a sour like single
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person you know in their 40s or 50s talking about love lost no no this is about a couple who is
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happily married who goes to parties and has fun together talking about methodologies that they
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used when they were courting yeah and it's very interesting if you contrast it with other songs
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that are that are christmassy like the the two songs that both have the same oh the more modern ones
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um so what is it one is hold on well i mean there's santa baby the more recent version of this is
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ariana grande singing santa tell me and then last christmas i think it's wham called last christmas
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yeah and then the the earlier version of this is last christmas by wham and both of them are like
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the slutty perpetually single version of bad courting methods i keep sleeping with a different
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guy every christmas how come this isn't working out for me why is why why is this person not committing
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to me last christmas i gave you my heart and the very next day you gave it away and ariana grande
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singing you know i i don't want to give it all away if you won't be here next year which is really
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interesting and i don't want to do it again again she says in the song that she has done it before
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so it's not just saying you know i hope that this guy is loyal to me and if these people are dumping
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them the very next day this is not a long-term relationship christmas i gave you my heart
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but the very next day you gave it away yeah there's not very much affection demonstrated in
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these stories which is interesting and that it shows that there is much more wholesomeness and much
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more affection in the song that is typically seen as being the more like inappropriate of the
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christmas songs and when they point to lines like baby what's in my drink like or she's saying hey
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what's in this drink what's in this drink what's in this drink so one in social context of the time
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period that was a common way to say i'm feeling kind of tipsy i'm feeling like my inhibitions are down
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like maybe we should do something you you compare it to something my mom used to say all the time your mom
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used to like have like one glass of wine and be like not gonna lie i'm a little tipsy just to like
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show that she was in a celebratory mood and that's exactly like this person basically saying i'm down
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to clown and that's yeah basically saying i'm down to class now let's be clear the the accusation here
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is she's implying that the drink was spiked with alcohol or that the drink was spiked stronger than
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she expected but that's worse than alcohol but then she wouldn't be saying what she's saying
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like it is very clear from contextual clues i wish i knew how your eyes are like starlight
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when our society's social rules aren't made up by and i'm sorry to say this simone i know you're
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autistic but autistic idiots who can't catch basic social cues that they see somebody say that in a
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song and they go oh she's being drugged against her will when really what she's saying is i'm down to
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clown very obviously and then they'd be like how can you tell the difference and it's because she
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didn't immediately leave that a sane person who thought that their drink had just been spiked
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inappropriately is leaving is going to say hey what are you doing like yeah even if they were like oh
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well she's afraid of the guy in this song and that's why she's not leaving first of all that's this
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weird progressive feminist fever dream she very clearly has the ability to leave at any point in
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the song and that is made clear throughout the song the fact that she is saying hey my inhibitions are
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down but she's deciding to stay is saying hey i'm interested in you and and just if we go over like
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the way flirting works right she is very explicitly coding for him in the excuses that she is using
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not to stay is other people will think negatively of her for what it would look like she had done
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if she stayed yeah what is the implication of that the implication is she intends to do those things
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okay she is not vaguely bringing up like oh people will you know think something has gone wrong or
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something like that it's people will think we hooked up if i stayed here that is what flirting looks like
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and the level of autism to hear that and think that this is somebody who's being flirted with against her
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will is frankly absurd and i i think that this shows i mean then a lot of people can say like so what are
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you saying are you saying that we should go back to flirting this way but not so i would do i'm gonna
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defend the autists over here like if i were to hear this and interpret this like an autist
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the insinuation is actually like there's inclement weather outside and i need to stay here all night
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but people will think negative things that's it like i don't i don't i get zero like autistic
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hackle raising about like some implication of of foul play or coercion from this song it's just too
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wholesome yeah and that's so but but this all comes back to the lowering rates of sex people not
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knowing how to date and people not being able to date in the way that they would have historically
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dated yeah so i think that there's many guys who know like this is what courtship is supposed to look
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like another really interesting thing and when i say supposed to look like is historically when people
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courted this way i know because i courted this way sometimes was women women really enjoyed this
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okay women really enjoy in dating some level of plausible deniability yes it's just in the past
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it was hotter for them it's hotter it's protective for everyone yes well it was protective for everyone
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the problem is that in our current society plausible deniability is grapes okay
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well and plausible deniability for especially for men is risk because plausible plausible deniability
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at any point retroactively can be turned into criminal action which is horrible yeah yeah and
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that's horrifying for men today and so they do not date in this way they have to basically
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explicitly ask a woman hey are you open to me kissing you but even in some places like in denmark
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it seems that new regulation net play is such that even if you have like literally filmed written
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consent notarized you know it doesn't matter how far it goes a woman can still retroactively go back
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and decide no which is how do you think people are gonna find partners like literally and do you think
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that this is what women really want like you as a woman would you have really wanted me to be
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that explicit instead of normal flirting which is for example moving out to touch you and seeing if
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you remove my hand if you remove my hand i don't do it again this is the thing and this is the problem
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where people end up going overboard with this sort of stuff when the person has clearly signaled they're
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not interested and yet you keep making moves and i think that this is one of the problems potentially
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as society is becoming more autistic this sort of nuanced dating because society is becoming more
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autistic this sort of nuanced dating actually does lead to actual grapey situations much more often
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because people don't pick up the no i'm actually not interested in you social cues
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because if the woman in the song was actually giving the guy cues like i'm not interested in you
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him continuing to go on and on would have been a very threatening environment for her
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well and vice versa in fact i think there's a version of the song where
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they keep all the female lyrics but then the male lyrics are like okay go and it just makes her look
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super creepy so of course it goes both ways yeah and i and i do think that these these problems
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especially now the risk does go both ways because you can now have a woman be very aggressive with a
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man and put him in a position where he feels coerced because he worries that if he doesn't respond to
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her advances she will then retroactively frustrated because she's already unethical enough to push his
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boundaries when she knows he's not okay with moving forward she's unethical enough to also then make
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accusations should he not accept her unwanted advances so i think it can be equally scary for
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men in these situations but and one thing i want to be clear which i think is always one of the big
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problems or things that annoys me about the wider manos here is we'll point to an issue like this
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has happened because of a change in dating culture and they and i talk about how this affects both
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men and women and they're like well it's a change that women wanted and it's like no it's a change
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that some influential women wanted i'd say that always the majority of women in society didn't really
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like this yeah i don't even think it's fair to say that women wanted it i think it's fair to say
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that power hungry bureaucrats wanted it that people playing dominance hierarchy games wanted it people who
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wanted to impose safetyism culture wanted it and they don't i don't even think again i think it's
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safetyism culture but within a dominance hierarchy just as we were going back to like anime right like
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people showing that they're bigger fans of anime or indie rock bands by choosing more and more obscure
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impossible bands and shows in the same realm of safetyism culture which had a massive meteoric
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meteoric rise throughout the 90s and especially the early aughts the the best way to show your extra power
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your extra commitment to that movement and to wokeism in general was to propose even more stringent
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classifications and agreements like oh we have to have all these terms and now you need to have a written
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consent and of course i'm clearly better and more important in this culture because i'm the one who's willing
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to take this obscure and extreme measure so again this is not a woman thing this is not a man thing
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this is a dominance hierarchy slash bureaucratic tumor thing do you yeah and and and when and then people
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be like yeah but that movement was more female than male that caused this cultural breakdown and i'm like
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so fucking what so fucking what a lot of the women who i am sad that this is hurting today
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are not the you know the these ultra ultra progressive women i am sad that this is hurting
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normal girls who are yeah i mean it's like in like viking raids in which there was there was you know
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pillaging and and and brutalization of families in small villages you know it's like oh well this is a man
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problem men were doing all of the raiding and it's like well yeah but also it's like fathers male children
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brothers lost people they loved had people they loved violated were themselves killed like i'm sorry
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there are victims for every every violent corrupt hurtful movement out there don't pretend that like
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because some some boxes ticked among those who are the aggressors means that the aggressors are that box
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ticked so and what this means is on the group that is motivating the action not the individual not like
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some aspect of the individuals right so like right if you're mad about the viking raids don't be mad at
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men be mad at vikings if you're mad about what the ultra progressive wocus you know urban monoculture
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cultists have done be mad at them yes male or female don't be mad at women there's women out there that
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are hurt by this just as much as there are men that are hurt by this and we need to work together to
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destroy the actual scourge which has led to this and work together to fight against that scourge
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not blame people who may have a lot of sympathies for our cause and what's going on but this brings
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us to another point that you were talking about which is it we do still need to recognize that on
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average women are more progressive and men are more conservative yes one of the things that has led to a
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damage in dating culture is people not being willing to cross the aisle in dating anymore right so
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liman stone and brad wilcox recently wrote a piece on this in the atlantic where they talked about the
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growing disparity between men and women in terms of political affiliation plus the growing number
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of people who are not willing to date across the aisle and this is not something that showed up in
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this in their article for some other event i went over a detailed survey results pdf that showed
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friendship over the years and it also showed that uh friends are less likely to be to befriend people
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who have different political affiliations from them and that people have unfriended people based on their
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political affiliation however this is worse among progressives so progressives are much more likely to
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have unfriended someone because they were conservative or just not progressive enough which
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is really interesting because it's actually more dangerous for conservatives to have progressive
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friends than progressive to have conservative friends why do you say that so for example i'm a guy
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and i'm hitting on a woman who's too progressive that's actually a huge risk to me because she can
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like give me charge with rape or something like that right whereas the inverse is less true although
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women could say well he may not respect my boundaries or something you know these guys they're just
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this is this is really frustrating though right because like when you and i met i think you and
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i were both way more progressive than we are now which is a very common trajectory right like people
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grow up and get responsible actually that's not true really i thought it was like the common myth
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yeah people don't actually become much more conservative as they age it's your your political
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leaning is uh heavily genetic and not really well not heavily moderately genetic and then other than that
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it's experiential but it doesn't seem to turn consistently more conservative as people age but
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what's interesting then is i would say that our political leanings genetically if i had to like come up
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with like what our genetics seem to reveal about our intuitions is that we're both extremely classical
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liberals like libertarians like get off my life you know don't mess with my stuff and but but i i think
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was more on the progressive end when we met and you were more on the conservative end when we met like
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i mean i was still progress i would have been considered progressive back then yeah no you were
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totally considered progressive but also like i when we were going to get married remember like at first
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i was like well you know of course i'm not going to change my last name and you're like what
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yeah i was like no of course you're changing your last name and and so but like that's the thing is
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like now i think women would hear you say something like that and be like well that's a
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deal breaker and it's so stupid but would you have would you have ever been caught up by this culture
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so much that you would feel that way no i feel like you're like also i don't know like things have
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gotten so extreme recently people have gotten so like there's this collective delusion i do think
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that there's some kind of weird social contagion it's i mean it was possible in like the middle
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ages for people to dance themselves to death because some weird social contagion spread in
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their in their village right i i think it's entirely possible for people to who are otherwise perfectly
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reasonable i love i love this analogy that this is like in the medieval ages when people dance
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themselves to death that that's what we're seeing among progressives right now you know we were talking
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we were talking with this reporter who reached out to us recently do you want to go over like she
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just kept bemoaning like well i need to find a guy who you know lives in new york city and
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is uh progressive and it's very hard if you yeah like i'm you know what i won't find you know guys
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who compromise for me and she showed absolutely zero willingness to compromise for a guy when
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really like for me my process of really falling in love with you was every time you exposed me to
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something that i hadn't realized every time that you changed my perspective on something every time you
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opened my eyes to something like i remember one day i was like well you know america has like the
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worst education system we're so embarrassing and you're like actually like have you seen what
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european like education systems are like and he showed me all this data and i was like holy smokes
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america's amazing what and like like i feel like people should be even more attracted to people of
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different well i would say they should be even more attracted to conservatives so i think one thing
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that's important to note is many progressive women out there are like simone they are actually
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interested in finding out what's true about the world okay yeah i think many people because they're
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pro-social and they care but that means you have to use actual data-backed arguments you need to
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actually go over stuff now there's another class of women out there who if you show data that doesn't
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agree with their tribe's preconceptions that is an attack yeah that and and and those are people who
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you will just never be happy being with just trust me like if they're like an ideological tribalist
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even if you're progressive you're probably better off not being with them well these people aren't
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pro-social in the end because they don't care about data that ultimately may help them improve
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societal outcomes they care whether or not you have shown to be in their cult yeah yeah and and i guess
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what we're saying at the end of all this is uh baby it's cold outside is a guide to dating look like
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it's yes it's it is how you should flirt if you find someone who is not completely woke and likely
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to write you up and report you to the police well i think even now i don't i don't think the young
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generation could easily risk flirting that way um boy no so i think it's an intractable problem at this
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point but it's important to remember that the enemy isn't women it's the cultural group that has
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enforced these norms that have made it impossible to date women and that if you can get through that
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if you can get a potentially good partner it is much harder to date than it was historically i would
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not play the trade-up game as aggressively as i see some of our followers playing it where they're like
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well i can do better than the one i have right now um maybe maybe and they're like well if i get a lot
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richer and it's like yeah but then you're older and you're in a dating market where it's potentially
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even harder like when i say harder they're like yeah but women get more desperate like these 30 year
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old single women they're more desperate than the younger ones and i can get more attractive women
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and i'm like yes you probably can but i'd also even even those more attractive women now i think are
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culturally ruined i was just poking around on reddit last night i would point out i was looking
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at like i think maybe am i the asshole i was looking at that subreddit and there was like 22 no 19 she
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was 19 and she was like am i the asshole for being mad that my 62 year old husband doesn't says he can't
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care for our twins like so she decided to marry this guy who's incredibly likes way older than she is
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and clearly is a stay-at-home wife and was was surprised that her husband who had just gotten
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some kind of diagnosis like i think he needed to get a hip replacement or knee replacement or something
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like pretty intense and was like listen i you know you're gonna need to kind of like pull the weight
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here i'm like literally not well enough to raise twins right now and she's like well there was there
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was another one that i read and i think this was also am i in am i the asshole or maybe just no
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mother-in-law which is another subreddit i follow where someone was talking about her evil mother-in-law
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and how her mother-in-law was criticizing her for not doing enough cooking and cleaning as a stay-at-home
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wife so not even a stay-at-home mother just to stay so the woman who has no job and just stays at home
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in a very expensive house who her mother-in-law was by and her she found her husband making and
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cleaning up after dinner as this wife was lying in bed upstairs because her period cramps were too bad
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and then the mother was sort of criticizing for her for like listen you're a stay-at-home wife like
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why is he making dinner for you and cleaning after working all day and i'm like reading this and my
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blood is boiling like this woman is so entitled like part of me is like yeah throw up your hands
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women are ruined like i don't know like they're just like that there could be this like complete
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lack of understanding of this is not about women and men this is not about roles in the household
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this is not about like men should be able to do their own laundry and cook what you know everyone
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should be able to take care of themselves obviously this is about reciprocity this is about
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what are you bringing to the table in a social contract yeah and people seem to have completely
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lost the plot there that there is no like again it's that that level of entitlement you know just
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like well but of course i deserve everything because i deserve everything instead of like you deserve as
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much as you deserve based on what you bring to the table if you bring 10 points to the table you
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deserve 10 points in return you know of equal value oh well i am so lucky that i met you and uh and and
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that i met you young enough that we were able to grow together and those cultural influences that
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could have tarnished both of us were able to intertwine as we we grew up together and so yeah i just
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strongly encourage people to not not think i'll be wealthier in the future i'll be more successful in
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the future i'm just gonna wait to do better but also like not to wait for a perfect person out of
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the box because there is no such thing you have to grow with someone yeah and and someone's not
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going to be perfect for you you have to make them perfect for you and you have to become perfect for
00:31:05.560
them like i was just thinking like if i woke up sudden someday is like a single man and i had to
00:31:11.280
figure out like what to do i actually think there's a ton of low-hanging fruit like i would go
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through well like all the female porn like subreddits and stuff and sort of see like what
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women fantasize about because actually like a ton of it's really wholesome and then i would just start
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acting it out like just you know be that like kind listener who you know makes them feel safe and
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like like it's just it's not that hard and it's now we have more data than ever like i think in the
00:31:39.520
past it was actually really hard for men to understand what women wanted like kind of you had to go by
00:31:44.940
ads and ads were like we'll buy this perfume for your wife and she'll love you you know or like get
00:31:49.120
flowers for this girl and she'll be so happy whereas now like you can literally see the number of upvotes
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on specific behavioral patterns and then ape them like hello low-hanging fruit like crazy and of course
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that doesn't change the fact that like women are crazy entitled and men are crazy entitled and people
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are lazy and stressed and whatever and there's no money and there's no desire but like there's still so
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many things you can do and you have to adapt you you as you are are not good enough period not good
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enough no one is i wasn't good enough for you that's like super clear and you changed a lot for
00:32:23.640
me too to accommodate me because i'm very neurotic and crazy so anyway rant over so well and this is
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fantastic and i appreciate that when i met you i mean you were good enough and that you you always
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were working to improve yourself and you and you always recognize that you could improve yourself
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still and that that was a desirable thing i guess the most desirable thing these days is malleability
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isn't it well and infatuation well yeah infatuation and interesting it's being submissive and breedable