dunk tank because we're dunking on this lady's baby daddy
Ever have one of those "How the fuck am I still single, when this is my competition?!" moments?
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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Literally every time I read something like this
But then I remember I barely leave my house due to Covid, don’t really like meeting people or going out anyway, and the last relationship I was in we broke up because she held extremely bourgeois values and was an anticommunist. So sometimes the women are just as reactionary as the men, and also I do myself no favors being a crank shut in. So it actually makes complete sense why I’m single.
Crank shut-in volcel gang, we ~~out~~ in here.
Personally I think my problem is not replying to texts reliably, women seem to hate that
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Almost every goddamn day of my life, but I know the answer is that I don't put myself out there or make an effort to meet new people/potential love interests. I think I would make a good partner for someone, it's just a matter of actually seeking people out. Just sucks that guys are expected to make the first move most of the time and I'm terrible at gauging someone's interest in me.
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It sure is very nice to be told that the bar is on the floor, when you still haven't managed to clear it.
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yes :(
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I keep hearing about dudes just casually watching porn in non-masturbatory contexts the way I scroll through funny animal videos on Youtube and I just don't get it
I know a guy who literally doesn't masturbate because it "ruins sex" but also is way into porn and watches it frequently. I don't get it either. I utilize porn as a tool but I can't imagine just watching it for watching's sake.
I know a guy who literally doesn't masturbate because it "ruins sex" but also is way into porn and watches it frequently.
I knew someone very similar to that back in college. He claimed that the porn "motivated him" and not masturbating let him "channel his energy."
Ultimately he was just an aggressive misogynistic asshole who eventually found 
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he watches it for the articles
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Only guy I know that does this is also friends with porn directors and does communal porn watch parties (and other sex party stuff). So probably not the average example.
But I can think of few things less arousing than watching porn in a group.
Edit: I tell a lie, I also had a colleague of mine show a titty model gif and saying 'look at this cool thing'. He is also 20 years my senior. Just kind of confused by that more than anything, how the fuck are you supposed to react?
But I can think of few things less arousing than watching porn in a group.
Imagining a bunch of hipster auteur types sipping wine and rubbing their chins, furiously writing in their little notebooks, while some Brazzers is playing in front of them all like: "ah yes the artistic choice of spreading the cumshot all across her back with a vibrator is a real insight into the perils of digital nomadism in the age of late capitalism"
I also had a colleague of mine show a titty model gif and saying 'look at this cool thing'. He is also 20 years my senior. Just kind of confused by that more than anything, how the fuck are you supposed to react?
"Impressive, very nice, now lets see Paul Allen's titty model gif" 
Imagining a bunch of hipster auteur types sipping wine and rubbing their chins, furiously writing in their little notebooks, while some Brazzers is playing in front of them all like: "ah yes the artistic choice of spreading the cumshot all across her back with a vibrator is a real insight into the perils of digital nomadism in the age of late capitalism"
The vibrator is fucking blue 
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I knew a guy who would just watch porn in the breakroom at our warehouse job. An otherwise nice enough guy but it was very weird
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The nice thing about divorce in this case is that the kids wouldn't have a father in their life anyway.
you right tho
Obvious bait
yeah a lot of reddit posts def seem like bait. this sort of thing does happen though
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This can't be real. The bit about "everyone acting like it's totally normal" for something that's clearly not, and just the absurdity of the situation makes me believe it's fake. People can't be that shitty, can they? But in the 1% chance it's true, wtf
"everyone" means "everyone immediately known to me whom i've asked," and there are some fucked up places out there
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Assuming the nurses/midwives are trained professionals, I'm going to guess that
A. They're too focused on their job to pay attention to what some observer is doing on the other side of the room
B. They've probably witnessed worse behavior from women's husbands during childbirth
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Having the internet on any pocket-sized device should be outlawed and hundreds of millions of people need to be put into rehabilitation camps.
On one hand we could just hang the techbro CEOs/execs and burn down their shitty social media servers then maybe the "internet" would go back to being more than the same 3 shit websites?
On the other hand I don't know if there is a cure for someone that spent 10 years on reddit.
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everyone around me acting like it's a totally normal thing to be WATCHING PORN IN THE SAME ROOM YOUR LABORING WIFE IS IN
In some places they don't let the father be in the same room as the mother during birth. Presumably it's because this shit happened too many times and the hospital wanted to spare the mother the indignity.
fr tho I can't even be on my phone if there's someone in the same room vacuuming or doing dishes, I gotta get up and do something equivalent. This is actual sociopath behavior to me.
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Can confirm that the parental expectations for men are very low. Verbally and in the media/culture the expectations are higher but for real life boots on the ground parenting one gets lauded for doing not very much at all
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Entertainment has no effect on people which is why some can't voluntarily stop fucking consuming it for the sake of anyone else. If it wasn't porn it would be paddle balls or flipping a coin with equal intensity and fixation, because material conditions. 
Fake as hell, but as a AMAB person I can confirm that the bar is low. I get compliments fairly often by doing what seem to me like normal spouse/parent stuff. These compliments are always from women, which offers a depressing insight into what they've been conditioned to accept
My wife and I have had two children for both children, I had a bugout bag set up which included a book. Delivery takes hours, it's often quick near the end, but we had to wait through contractions and dilation. It is not normal to watch porn in situations like this - one can argue that pornography, outside of kink shows, or art exhibitions is meant for private consumption.
My jaw is on the floor. Holy shit.
I’ve heard of even weirder circumstances where people used porn, like D&D games
It is definitely only for private consumption. And I have never seen a situation where it was consumed publicly and was even remotely ok. Maybe if you’re a hardcore voyeur but even then what happened in this post is absurd.
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You'd think so, but if you are a single older guy, 'Being nice to people.' is seen as 'Being desperate for attention or interaction', at least until you hang out enough for people to realize 'oh no, he's fine with being ignored he's just a nice guy.' Which is wild to me because I see being an obnoxious asshole as being desperate for attention.
Social situations are completely fucked these days, especially with dating because of the toxic shit that both men and women are taught by 'dating gurus' on the internet. What happens is that people ask their friends advice on stuff, but their friends who are into these types of relationship dramas are getting their advice from people who are pushed on the algorithm, who are almost all people who are complete drama freaks. The amount of normalization (and romanticization) of whacky creepy behavior is wild.
The amount of normalization (and romanticization) of whacky creepy behavior is wild.
TikTok is a nightmare world of glorifying precious smol bean quirky abusers.
My partner had to get an endoscopy a couple of weeks ago and I sat with her the whole time, holding her hand and talking
The only time she was out of my sight was during the actual procedure and the second she was in recovery, I went back and sat with her until she was ready to have me drive her back home
I can't even imagine doing any less for someone I love
Pretty sure you're fine being on your phone here and there. Especially for the long ass labours that go 24 hours sometimes. The porn is a weird though you can go without that.
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Seriously, the shit that I get praised for as a man is concerning. It's apparently unusual for a guy to talk about his spouse or baby approvingly, or to say 'thank you' to a fast food worker
Honestly I think it's weird that culturally we've leaned into making birth a weird medical horror date night. Isn't it better to just not be in the doctors' way?
Isn't it better to just not be in the doctors' way?
Honestly, you kind of have to be there to make sure your partner is getting the appropriate care, along with providing emotional support for a long, exhausting and painful process.
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id like my bf to be there for any major surgeries, im definitely ok with him being on the phone in the moments where im not having a hard time tho. tbh would prefer if he put something on for us to both focus on
Surgery and medical events are difficult and traumatic even when it's routine and normal. It's good to be there to wave the flag for your partner. Go visit your friends and family when they're in the hospital - they will be happy to see you.
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