A few things I have noticed on this sub-forum

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04 Nov 2009, 11:40 pm

Off-topic people also tick me off umm wrong section... kidding! It's sad but true that people with high standards most likely won't meet a person who'll satisfy their standards, but who can help it? Lower the standards = no attraction maybe? You can't blame them. Ya, I also think



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04 Nov 2009, 11:43 pm

We should blame no one, although I can be off-topic at east I try my best to keep ourselves cool here.

And yet let us all love each other (isn't this section Love and Dating?)


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05 Nov 2009, 3:27 am

Another thing I'm getting sick of is seeing these blunt and nasty generalizations about women on here.

I don't know but I've been thinking about leaving this place. It just depresses me and I'm really sick of this crap about how awful women are. The nice guy crap has been nothing but BS here. I really hope not all guys think this way but this place just reaks of racism and sexism and pretty narrow minded members.


I'm probably sounding a bit too far fetched but it's just getting to me and in ways I didn't imagine. I'd rather go on a forum where I can be a little more honest and open-minded than this rubbish.


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05 Nov 2009, 3:32 am

I have to agree with MissConstrue, the bigotry here is pretty rank. I haven't been here long enough to think anything of it beyond, "Wow, no wonder Aspies can have a bad rep. These guys are foul."



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05 Nov 2009, 3:35 am

MissConstrue wrote:
Another thing I'm getting sick of is seeing these blunt and nasty generalizations about women on here.

I don't know but I've been thinking about leaving this place. It just depresses me and I'm really sick of this crap about how awful women are. The nice guy crap has been nothing but BS here. I really hope not all guys think this way but this place just reaks of racism and sexism and pretty narrow minded members.


I'm probably sounding a bit too far fetched but it's just getting to me and in ways I didn't imagine. I'd rather go on a forum where I can be a little more honest and open-minded than this rubbish.


Ok. I hope to be more open-minded then. (I am guilty of it too) I agree...


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05 Nov 2009, 3:49 am

ruennsheng wrote:
MissConstrue wrote:
Another thing I'm getting sick of is seeing these blunt and nasty generalizations about women on here.

I don't know but I've been thinking about leaving this place. It just depresses me and I'm really sick of this crap about how awful women are. The nice guy crap has been nothing but BS here. I really hope not all guys think this way but this place just reaks of racism and sexism and pretty narrow minded members.


I'm probably sounding a bit too far fetched but it's just getting to me and in ways I didn't imagine. I'd rather go on a forum where I can be a little more honest and open-minded than this rubbish.


Ok. I hope to be more open-minded then. (I am guilty of it too) I agree...


Don't worry ruen, so far I haven't seen you post anything remotely close to some of the posters I've seen. It's alright to gripe about the other gender, I mean we're all a bit guilty of that. It's just these posters that regularly come here not for help but to blatantly generalize and offend the other gender. Normally I would say there may be high expectations involved but there seems to more than that and it would be just the same if I came in here and said how awful men are or how awful a race of people are which is what I'm seeing more and more of, not that it's anything new but it makes it hard for me to come here and post without seeing a majority of guys come here just to rant and offend people.


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05 Nov 2009, 4:55 am

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For a start I think the majority of people on here have their standards set way too high. Seriously what makes people on here make people think that someday some magic person is gonna come and tick every single box that meets relationship criteria and hand everything to them on a plate. Nobody is perfect and it's also very hypocritical of most people on here expecting to meet someone who will have no faults or differences of their own.

Also going for someone who appears to tick all boxes will come back to haunt you at some point later on anyway.

Secondly I think some people on here seriously need to grow a backbone or climb off their high horses and by this I mean two things, 1. people who always use AS as an excuse for not dealing with a situation and 2. those who when replying to other members on here seeking advice, only reply with the 'advice' that the original poster wants to hear. It's pathetic and can be seen straight through.

Im sure Im probably gonna get slated and a ticking off from the moderaters for this but it's my honest opinion.


Oh I absolutely agree and have brought this up before. I see these LISTS people make of ideal women, and my god its no wonder they can't get anyone. "must share my interest in blah blah and have these personality traits" my god. No-one is perfect. No-one is going to have all the qualities you want unless you're really lucky.

For me all it comes down to is me being attracted to them when I get to know them. It's all I care about. None of this rubbish. Of course there are personality types I am more attracted to than others.. .but its NOT criteria!



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05 Nov 2009, 5:08 am

I've been trying to cut my list back, but it appears I still have too many impossible criteria...

1) must be same species

2) must not require inflation

3) must not threaten to call police when I speak to her


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05 Nov 2009, 5:14 am

omg :lol:



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05 Nov 2009, 7:39 am

MissConstrue wrote:
Another thing I'm getting sick of is seeing these blunt and nasty generalizations about women on here.

I don't know but I've been thinking about leaving this place. It just depresses me and I'm really sick of this crap about how awful women are. The nice guy crap has been nothing but BS here. I really hope not all guys think this way but this place just reaks of racism and sexism and pretty narrow minded members.


I'm probably sounding a bit too far fetched but it's just getting to me and in ways I didn't imagine. I'd rather go on a forum where I can be a little more honest and open-minded than this rubbish.


Agreed (apart from the "thinking about leaving part; I'm not leaving).
My little brother sums up some of the attitudes here quite well,
"Women don't like me. What's wrong with them?"


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05 Nov 2009, 8:52 am

Who_Am_I wrote:
My little brother sums up some of the attitudes here quite well,
"Women don't like me. What's wrong with them?"


Repeated for emphasis.



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05 Nov 2009, 11:47 am

HH wrote:
Who_Am_I wrote:
My little brother sums up some of the attitudes here quite well,
"Women don't like me. What's wrong with them?"


Repeated for emphasis.


W O R D !


That kid is a genius!! !


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05 Nov 2009, 11:50 am

The last few posts remind me of a joke. A man goes to a doctor and says: "whenever I poke my self anywhere on the body, it hurts. Can you tell me what's wrong?" The doctor examined him, and said: "I know what it is: you have a broken finger."

Jokes aside, I still want to point out something it took me years to realize. By and large, girls go for guys with the attractiveness level similar to theirs. Sure, once in a while, a plain-looking guy with poor social skills may have a hot girl show interest in him, but those are statistical outliers. That doesn't mean you'll never find a girl; it means that you might never find a hot girl. Accept it and get over it. Girls "in your league" will make themselves approachable to you, and just might like you if you approach them in a non-creepy way.

A big part of finding dates is marketing. So if you're looking and looking, but finding no one, perhaps you're marketing to the wrong people, like trying to sell fur coats in Maui, HI. Sure, you might find a fur collector there, but if you sell them in Fairbanks, AK instead, they'll go flying off the shelves. Same with the guys who say that women don't like them; it not be your fault personally, but you're approaching the wrong women.

Basically, women want the best guy they can find; it's hard-wired biologically for them. Look at the animal world: the females always look for males with the best genes. So if you want to succeed in the dating world, simply approach women for whom you might be the best guy they can find. Then you'll finally be able to learn what it's like to have a girl interested in you.



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05 Nov 2009, 12:25 pm

You’re absolutely right. All you need to do is go to the mall or a restaurant and spend a few minutes’ people watching to prove this. Most couples look like they should go together! They‘re in the same league, so to speak.

The problem comes when you’re not attracted to the women who are in your league.

My problem tends to be that the women I mesh with personality wise are ones I have zero physical attraction for, and the ones I’m physically attracted to either have nothing going on in the intelligence/personality department OR they know they can do better and reject me.

Women from the first category (personality but no physical attraction) hit on me fairly often. I wear a wedding band to ward these women off because I don’t have the heart to reject them. I have tried dating women like this a few times, but if there’s no attraction, there’s no faking it, at least not for me…

What it all comes down to is shallowness. I wish I wasn’t so superficial, but I am and I don’t know how to change it.


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05 Nov 2009, 5:22 pm

You'll find sexism is the WORST on internet male dominated forums.

Gaming forums are the same.

I don't like the attitudes of a lot of the men here and find them completely unattractive.

I don't frequent this place often but from what I've seen most of the sexist posts are from guys who have been rejected over and over again. I can understand why they feel that way but its not going to help them.

Women get trashed to oblivion on male dominated forums. the fact of the matter is, MissConstrue, you can get a hell of a lot better than the people who speak like this. Never forget that, even if you're picky and find it hard to find potential partners.



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05 Nov 2009, 6:26 pm

hale_bopp wrote:
You'll find sexism is the WORST on internet male dominated forums.

Gaming forums are the same.

I don't like the attitudes of a lot of the men here and find them completely unattractive.

I don't frequent this place often but from what I've seen most of the sexist posts are from guys who have been rejected over and over again. I can understand why they feel that way but its not going to help them.

Women get trashed to oblivion on male dominated forums. the fact of the matter is, MissConstrue, you can get a hell of a lot better than the people who speak like this. Never forget that, even if you're picky and find it hard to find potential partners.


Certainly this doesn't apply to all of the guys here, would you? Would you say that I am one of these sexist internet males?