Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

took me a second to realize 'nail art' = fingernails, and not, y'know, art made out of nails

I've been negged tons of times and it usually backfires

pretty sure my sister got picked up by a PUA last weekend at the goth club. He was doing magic tricks and he kept putting his glasses on her and saying "You look so cute!" And they snogged, so I guess it worked.

Tbf you want real nails to make patriarchy smashing tools. It's not enough to scratch the patriarchy. Xp

I've reached the age where the direct approach works best.

Wish Laurel could do my Nomi Malone-esque revenge nails. I'll use them to scratch the patriarchy.

I dont think i've ever "approached" anyone with explicit romantic intent tbh

lol a soccer friend wrote a well-intentioned Abby Wamback piece the oth day which I stopped reading when I got to references to women athletes scratching and clawing their way to the top.

This is why I ditched the supporters' club, guys, in case you were wondering!

Speaking of being sexist.

really? i didn't know that.

I dont think i've ever "approached" anyone with explicit romantic intent tbh

this is absurd
you have never talked to a person/approached a person specifically because you found them appealing in a romantic way?
i can't believe that for 1 second

well anytime i find someone appealing in a romantic way i sort of stare at my shoes and try to remember to take breaths, until they go away

you're full of it too, mister

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n51o1jot1qdye1ho1_r1_250.gif

Xp LL, i have done that, but not usually with an "end game" like, I want to take this person home/get their #. I was in a relationship for a reaaallly long time though, that ended very recently.

i think i only once set out with a long term plan to get into a relationship with a person i'd seen at a distance who look intersting. the plan mostly involved reading books at a bar we both frequented. it worked. thanks, Baader Meinhof gang!

what i do is i friend them on facebook and then post a lot of cool things to my feed, hoping that they'll notice how cool i am

hahaha yes

there shd be a PUA term for Facebook peacocking. i vote Facecocking.

Lol

i'm disappointed in all of you (except NV because he put some effort into it, and it worked)

don't worry, i blew it in the end

really? i didn't know that.

Yeah, I decided that spending time around people who called women "bitches" was more trouble than it was worth, even if the core of ppl that I was friends with didn't do that--the wider group did. Plus the group msg board was practically wallpapered with swimsuit avatars and naked women in ppl's sig files and men calling other men pussies and I just couldn't.

it's the same thing, facebook is just a really shitty bar

good point

when I was around the roller derby crowd they said "bitches" a whole lot but that was a different context, I would imagine

Facebook wd be improved by complimentary peanuts and the possibility of cocktails, this is true

Lol I guess I surprised rrrobyn and our mutual friend V once by emphatically saying I would never never tell anyone I had a crush on, because that way lies embarrassment for everyone involved.

awww

I think the people I have for-real crushed on hard are ones that I have seldom approached, and then it builds to this crescendo of me skittering from the room or being super-awkward. Best to approach someone before it gets to that point and they're so super-human that they seem unattainable.

yikes, that sounds gross, io. nothing worse than looking around and realizing that you are surrounded by jerks
having to extricate oneself from situations like that is why i am so reticent to become part of any group tbh!

i think i've usually approached people i've had a crush on unless it seemed like a bad idea for a particular reason, but that was all so long ago i cd be wrong

pathological smashriarchy

also "for real crushed on hard" is not even remotely equal (or even comparable) to "found appealing"

there's an element of far-gone-ness in the former that hasn't been given the chance to ferment in the latter

i still remember a lot about my first real crush but mostly embarrassing memories - i was a very, very gauche 16 year-old

Peacocking is a bloody great idea tbh, even if it gets co-opted by PUAs. Everyone should wear something mad glam, if they feel like it.

http://www.golfblogger.co.uk/data/post_pics/Trilby_Tour/Trilby_Tour_East_of_England_Golf.jpg

maybe not

in my youth I used to think that appearing in anything other than a nondescript, but clean fashion, was far inferior to having a rich inner life and being a conversationalist or something, but I think I also mostly read Star Wars books and played computer games a lot

i had a phase in my teens when i wore a lot of purple and yellow. and a hat. and beads. i think i'm good for the rest of my life.

I have no probs approaching people, the issue is no one seems worthy of approaching

I am totally sweating this hot bouncer at the club I frequent, though, but he is friends with my ex. So hands off.

i don't like the opposition of our 'evolutionary nature' and being a moral person in contemporary life. i don't think we have some kind of base or bestial nature that needs to be tamed by civilization, however conceived. evolution comprises our whole being, cognition, the works. it's like gravity, it's always on, everywhere, all the time. which makes it meaningless as a guide to proper action. that isn't what it is.

― goole, Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:32 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

truth bomb

Yeah, eloquently stated.

People are primates, and are in constant competition with others.

iana primatologist but bonobos give the lie to this idea, at least if by competition you are assuming something necessarily violent or aggressive.

aren't bonobos also the ones that murder each other?

ah just looked it up. it's chimps, not bonobos, who are murderers. good job bonobos. keep it up! http://www.realclearscience.com/2011/03/08/bonobos_unlike_chimps_do_not_murder_240136.html

competition isn't necessarily violent or aggressive. plants compete for access to sunlight.

yeah, plants don't need violence, they just gerrymander their voting districts...

I don't automatically hate face tattoos (this may say something about me), but I do automatically hate NY Giants ones.

pls don't say a jets one would be better

i want one of a plant wearing a jets uniform intercepting a pass from a plant wearing a giants uniform

knowing the Jets, it'd probably be them throwing the interception

look, i didn't choose to be a jets fan. i was born that way.

that guy in the plaid fedora posted upthread is like... things could be worse

competition isn't necessarily violent or aggressive. plants compete for access to sunlight.

― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Tuesday, June 25, 2013

tbqh redwoods are straight murderous