• Saff@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    These third spaces don’t have to be exclusively young men lol. In fact it might be better if they aren’t given the specific topic of people we are talking about in this thread. In general an increase in community locations is a good thing, but it seemed especially so for people in the intel rabbit hole. Somewhere casual they can come out of their shells and meet people in the real world!

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      2 months ago

      These third spaces don’t have to be exclusively young men

      Average age of the membership was 46. That doesn’t sound “young” to me.

      Some men are just eager to have a communal workout environment that doesn’t have gym thots preening their thirst trap poses all over the place

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          2 months ago

          LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

          Imagine not wanting any hot women around.

          Classic MGTOW vibes here

          Imagine being the guy whose primary excuse to go to the gym is to “ogle hot women”.

          Yeah, you’re a real progressive guy.

          The sign of a man with experience is when he’s become sick of women’s shit.

          The woman I am married to - which BTW, makes me wholly ineligible for MGTOW status - is one of the few women out there I actually want to spend time with beyond social niceties. I have zero interest in the vast majority of women out there - regardless of “hotness” - because I have come to know how women in general act and react; what their motivations are and how they approach life in general. And that just makes me wholly uninterested in them.

          Don’t get me wrong, I will absolutely be polite and civil to women. I have absolutely no problem socializing with them and making them feel appreciated and valued as I would any human being, regardless of gender (or fractional thereof). I just have no interest in them as women.

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              1 month ago

              How noble of you to modulate your bigotry

              Imagine being so insecure that you see bigotry where there is absolutely none.

              It’s called “personal preference”. You know, that one thing women demand to have respected when they possess it themselves, but who absolutely eviscerate men who show any shred of it.

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                1 month ago

                And here you are, still treating women as a monolith despite noting your wife doesn’t act that way

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                  1 month ago

                  And here you are, still treating women as a monolith despite noting your wife doesn’t act that way

                  So engaging with women for who they are, instead of what they are, is somehow “treating them like a monolith”?

                  Strange, that. Especially since women have been screaming at men for literal decades now to “don’t treat us like objects!! Don’t objectify us!!1!”

                  And yet. Here I am not treating them as a monolith by ignoring their gender and interacting with them as I would anyone else, irrespective of gender.

                  You have some very strange pro-objectification-of-women ideas.