I think he has a good one. Relationships nowadays are very superficial in quite a few ways. We don't have the time to get to personally know every person around us, so we choose a few attractive ones to sort through. We don't have time to get to know everyone, so we are forced to choose. And if we have to choose from ten or so people, then we may as well choose the attractive ones.
Dating sites are that to the extreme. Thousands of people, and the only real information we have of them is the photos they give. So naturally, the photos become the focus point. Sites like Tinder (Or Grindr) become a place where you decide who you get solely by appearances. There are no "He'll do" or the random stray average person that gets into your clique.
I'm not really complaining as I don't have use for dating sites nor any real need to find any partner. I'm just giving my commentary on the nature of romance nowadays.
I’m not sure he does. His premise is based on a flawed assumption to start- that 1. All or most women “crave” “selfie culture” and “dicks to choose from,” and 2. The implication that either of those things are exclusive to women. One can easily argue that by traditional values Tinder caters to male desires for fast, semi anonymous access to potential sexual partners, or the ability to ogle pictures of women. Or that it either doesn’t inherently stroke any egos, or doesn’t stroke female egos more than male by nature. The “pickiness” often attributed to tinder could be seen more as the fact that regardless of sex, one suddenly has access to a seemingly endless pool of potential mates that requires no effort other than to use the app. It’s the pickiness of choice- much the same way that transportation advances made it so one didn’t have to just marry whoever was in the village of age, but could choose, and modernization meant one didn’t have to choose a spouse just to survive.
There’s plenty to comment within your OWN gender/group/tribe/family. When someone aggressively criticizes others - especially in a way that can’t be applied to them personally - then we automatically know that person is a moron who can’t argue and doesn’t think.
Don’t “help” by stroking your chin and saying, ah, but he had a point! Nope - that person has 100% mindless hate with zero introspection and 0% something useful to offer anyone.
THAT is what should strike you about this ‘argument’. Standing on the sidelines being beta is not a good look for you. Grinning and trying to find cleverness because watching mindless attacks is fun to you? Very, very omega. Work on it.
@guest_ I said he has a good point not that everything he said was true. It's just that we are indeed becoming more conceited. Tinder is literally a case of "She looks pretty, swipe." or "He's pretty good, swipe."
Let me break it down into terms the common person here can understand. When you go through the random memes, do you laugh at them all? Not at all. In fact, you laugh less because you have pratically unlimited golden memes. Why laugh at the B- when the A+ is one click away?
There are people who dumb down Einstein into a bitch who showed up everyone to look better than them. They are right in a way, and they have a point because their idea breaks down into:
1) Einstein is a bitch
2) Einstein wants to show people up
3) Einstein showed people up
4) Einstein did it to look better than the others
Is everything on that list true? Definitely not. Is #3 true? Yes. Therefore, it has a point.
One of the most important lessons I've learned is that you can agree with someone on some things and vehemently disagree on others. I think Hitler was spot on with his love of animals. I also think he was completely wrong on his views of Jewish people.
Also, I don't bother listening to guests. A person who truly wants to add to the conversation will login instead of failing to insult someone and hiding behind their anonymity. Plus you misused the term omega which is what I really wanted to point out. You called me a beta and an omega? Those two terms are contradictory. But nonetheless, you either meant that I am a capable person who does not seek credit from my peers or you meant that I am too smart, sweet, and shy. Both of those are true. Like I said to my grandfather earlier, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone. The only person I'm trying to impress is myself.
@spiderwoman- my reply was to under_fire. At the time I was writing my post yours hadn’t been made yet. Sometimes due to work etc, or just the length, I have to write my posts a little at a time and it can take awhile. So my original intent was to have this be the second post and not the third- also, the be clear- the “omega” “beta” stuff is an actual guest and not me- guest_. But- while here and after reading your replies I have several comments on them as well. Firstly, you fall victim to the very thing your Einstein example sets out to prove. I was very specific in that the tinder guy did not have a point because his point wasn’t about human proclivities to gravitate towards looks, he was very specific in not only calling out the behavior of women and how women interact with tinder, but of its ties to “selfie culture” which by definition is a culture of self validation. As for the concept of excess of choice- I discuss that in my original reply....
What the fuck is that
Is it like an appliance?
Like fuck the post the guy has a point our dating culture is vain as fuck and sex used to have a love to it but now people just do it and end up in their thirties unfufilled and shit, but what in the fuck is he burning?
Dating sites are that to the extreme. Thousands of people, and the only real information we have of them is the photos they give. So naturally, the photos become the focus point. Sites like Tinder (Or Grindr) become a place where you decide who you get solely by appearances. There are no "He'll do" or the random stray average person that gets into your clique.
I'm not really complaining as I don't have use for dating sites nor any real need to find any partner. I'm just giving my commentary on the nature of romance nowadays.
Don’t “help” by stroking your chin and saying, ah, but he had a point! Nope - that person has 100% mindless hate with zero introspection and 0% something useful to offer anyone.
THAT is what should strike you about this ‘argument’. Standing on the sidelines being beta is not a good look for you. Grinning and trying to find cleverness because watching mindless attacks is fun to you? Very, very omega. Work on it.
Let me break it down into terms the common person here can understand. When you go through the random memes, do you laugh at them all? Not at all. In fact, you laugh less because you have pratically unlimited golden memes. Why laugh at the B- when the A+ is one click away?
There are people who dumb down Einstein into a bitch who showed up everyone to look better than them. They are right in a way, and they have a point because their idea breaks down into:
1) Einstein is a bitch
2) Einstein wants to show people up
3) Einstein showed people up
4) Einstein did it to look better than the others
Is everything on that list true? Definitely not. Is #3 true? Yes. Therefore, it has a point.
Also, I don't bother listening to guests. A person who truly wants to add to the conversation will login instead of failing to insult someone and hiding behind their anonymity. Plus you misused the term omega which is what I really wanted to point out. You called me a beta and an omega? Those two terms are contradictory. But nonetheless, you either meant that I am a capable person who does not seek credit from my peers or you meant that I am too smart, sweet, and shy. Both of those are true. Like I said to my grandfather earlier, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone. The only person I'm trying to impress is myself.
Is it like an appliance?
Like fuck the post the guy has a point our dating culture is vain as fuck and sex used to have a love to it but now people just do it and end up in their thirties unfufilled and shit, but what in the fuck is he burning?
I'd match Gary
Just to text him that I'd like him to get more than a mile away from me