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    Men on dating sites:
    Posting one of the few photos of themselves they have
    Posting a photo they have where they’re actually happy and feeling a sense of accomplishment

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      Only to be ignored by any actual women. Guaranteed to be accosted by bots and time wasting sex workers.

      I don’t know how there are any straight men left on dating sites other than the “top 10%,” of course.

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          Incel is a mindset, plenty of women will look past looks for people who make them laugh, or are interesting, or who do fun things with them.

          When you show women 10000 photos and ask them to choose from them, yes they’ll go for looks, that’s all the signal they get.

          My advice to incels is to find some fun hobbies, could be hiking or solitary things, as long as it makes you happy. When you’re happy, people will be drawn to you. If you focus on being butter and angry, people will sense that and avoid you.

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            You misunderstand. I am not excusing the incel community. Any sympathy I had for them died years ago, and frankly I think any guy who thinks women deserve retribution because they won’t sleep with them is a fucking coward.

            But here’s the thing, I think it’s a horrific symptom of our societal ills, not a cause. Inceldom is an economic issue first and foremost.

            We are a society that profiteers from human misery in so many ways. Men are judged quite harshly for their wealth, status and their ability to provide, even when we’ve made great strides to bring about equality between the sexes. Wealth inequality has created a predominantly male underclass. This affects many things like being able to afford a home, access to physical and mental healthcare, etc.

            Another thing that I think doesn’t help is how we’ve commodified sex in so many ways, but that’s a very deep subject that would take me way too long to go into.

            Online dating specifically is a monopoly headed by just two parent companies. They want your experience to be as miserable as humanly possible so that they can sucker you into paying the cost of several MMO subscriptions just to use the premium tier of their apps.

            The problem isn’t women, it’s that Bumble Inc and Match Group couldn’t give a flying FUCK about the integrity of their platforms. Socially awkward people depend on these apps to find love and their world view is being poisoned by a lack of interest from anybody who isn’t a bot, sex worker, scam artist or a lady from the other side of the world seeking to marry their way into their country.

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          90% of incels would be fine if they would get out of their own heads and stop being misogynistic.

          I’m 5’5" and get laid plenty, I’ve seen ugly guys get laid, guys with small dicks get laid.

          It’s a personality problem.

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      Nobody wants to see dead animals on dating sites. I appreciate you have hobbies but you can just list them as an interest.

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        I was talking shit about this to a group of friends one day, saying that how the hell do you think that’s a good idea and one of them piped up that he had a picture of him with a fish he caught and justified it as “showing them they can provide food”. I might as well have a picture of me in the fucking grocery store with a cart full of food with that logic. I asked him to ask some of his matches what they thought about it but I dont think he ever did. Needless to say I don’t think that man has actually gotten laid in a decade.

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      T̸̙̼̰̫̝͍͚̽͆̄͜͠h̷̭͕̐͜e̶͓̩̎̔̋̈́̈́̏̚ͅ ̶̖̟̺̈͗̽̑̉̽̉͋p̸͕͓͉̩̫̻̯̱͓̏͋͛̌ẹ̶͆̋̌̏̈́́͗̄̌͝o̷̢̟̜͚̣̟̥̳̪̅̿̐̈́̾̐͆̕ͅp̴̟̭̰̬̣̆̍̓̀̅̋̈́̍̊l̷͖̜̟͖͐̐̈́͑̕͠͝͠è̵̛̪̥͔̪̰̮͐͛͊̅̕ ̶̧͙͑̑A̵̖͔̭̮̖̲̼̤̓͂̍̕R̸̨̖̭͉̠̙̙̅̏̂͗E̴̢͙͖͕͇̤̳͙̮̥̅͊̓͝ ̵̛̗̹̰̄̋͐̑ṭ̶̛͔̙̐̓̓͂͊̈́͛̾ḩ̷͔̼̃̀͊̎̂̈́͊́ḛ̴̊̊͗͆ ̷̭̫̗̇f̸̻̉i̶̧̨͉̟͔̩̣͊̓ͅş̶̢͙̩̙̟̩̮̪͎͑͝͠ĥ̶̛̘́

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    Living in the Midwest, this is also super common on women’s dating profiles. I’d estimate probably more than 1 out of every 10 has a fish

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    The last time I made anything like a profile for tinder was when I made one for PoF back in the before times, in the long-long ago, the year 2007. I didn’t have fish pictures, but I did have a picture of me riding a unicycle.

    It was more effective than I expected.

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    Too dramatic, so the guy likes fishing and is showing it - sue me

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    It is customary among her people that the man bring a leg of a lingta to the first courtship dinner. Make sure it’s fresh, as if you had just killed it. Then use the leg to sweep aside everything on the table and declare in a loud voice, “I have brought you this! From this day, I wish to provide food for you and your House! All I ask is to share your company and do honor to your name!”

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      It’s actually spelt LIngta’ but maybe closer to LIngt’a’ or to be specific a LIngt’a’ Haj’dob mev’obDeSna. Translated to English is roughly ‘I am certain that this Lingta leg will feed you’. But Klingons are lazy so it’s shortened to LIngta.

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    quickly jots down notes, “go fishing… catch fish… show to barbie.” got it, now what? I’m recently single after a long marriage, HOW DO I ATRACT WOMEN?11!?!

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    I know a fair amount of girls from Minnesota and Oregon who would like that because they’re into fishing themselves. They grew up fishing with their fathers.

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      Highly agree. I love fishkeeping, so finding a dude that likes it too would be great… as long as they semi-understand what they’re talking about. No tropical fish without heaters, or tanks that aren’t properly cycled for example…

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    Bears love men who fish, they’re trying to attract bears.