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  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 days ago

    Now I’m curious what you’re hearing in the specifics. Like bad hygiene? Strange views or attitudes? All of the above and more?

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      Always just attitude. If it isn’t manosphere bs it is just general antisocial behavior. Just not being able to have a conversation without hinting at sex within half an hour. Having no interest at all in the women they match. Wanting to meet at their place for the first date. I could go on and on really.

      Like, I have autism and you’d expect me to struggle socially to some degree but the NT’s out there seem to be far worse for some reason.

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        8 days ago

        Yikes, yeah, that sounds bad. Basically sounds like people who are interested in hookups and nothing more, but also aren’t being upfront about that in a mature, humanizing way if they’re going to go that route. I wonder how much of it is fueled by PUA (pickup artist) material out there; from what I understand, a lot of that stuff is very sexist at its core and frames women like they’re a game console with a Konami Code you need to put in to get sex (not that they are using that analogy specifically, but that it’s very objectifying).