This is obviously true, but it is certainly clearly true of their own country. It seems that in other countries, such as the USA or European countries, things are different. Maybe it just happened that way in this nightclub.
Still, many people suffer from prejudices from what they learned at school or what was imposed on them as a thesis about this or that nation…or from television reports about some event. And it many times turns out to be wrong or misleading, having nothing to do with reality. This is true in many areas of life. And since we’re a lifting forum here I’ll give an example of constantly preaching and pushing the point about Dorian’s one work set from his last training program or how he trained at one point under Mike Mentzer. It turns out that neither is true. I recently read an article with an interview done personally by Dorian, where he says that the last heaviest set is this, but the previous ones are not light weights and are not just warm-up sets either. Also says he’s seen Mike but never trained under him. And on the occasion of his meetings with him, the media began to write about how Mike is Dorian’s coach. When Mike was asked about this, he didn’t confirm it, but he didn’t deny it either. And this is how a lie has appeared that has been preached as truth for decades.
But let’s not deviate from the topic.
There’s a fair chance that looking at women like pokemon in an attempt to “get them” is not helping the situation.
Good points. He’s also talking about Miami, one of the most image-conscious, hedonistic, and materialistic places in the country besides Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and New York City. Not attracting women in a club in these places might be a good thing.
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.html
To OP’s Wingman: Careful what you wish for. Testing prior to engaging target may be wise.
Are you suggesting that talking about human beings as “targets” to be “engaged” is not healthy behaviour?
You’ve only gotta watch some of those “guy with microphone interviews hot girls outside the club or on spring break” type videos and honestly, not pulling them is definitely not a bad thing. It’s easy for me to say that in my mid-thirties though, in my late teens or early twenties it would probably be a different story.
@dagill2 Modern culture in the clubbing scene is exactly that. Of course it’s not healthy but this is the way it’s been for a while now.
I totally get that, but you don’t have to play that game if you don’t want to.
Is that any worse/better than being characterized as goods on a market or a “consumption bundle”?
both those description make for much prettier maths
100%. And I think for the dude struggling, the best option would be to stop hanging around with the douche OP that regularly cheats on his GF and put himself into situations doing activities he feels more comfortable in, and meet girls that way.
If he genuinely wants a meaningful relationship with someone, i couldn’t agree more.
Do we have to rank these things?
Just released:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207323
Results
We report 528 infections diagnosed between April 27 and June 24, 2022, at 43 sites in 16 countries. Overall, 98% of the persons with infection were gay or bisexual men, 75% were White, and 41% had human immunodeficiency virus infection; the median age was 38 years. Transmission was suspected to have occurred through sexual activity in 95% of the persons with infection. In this case series, 95% of the persons presented with a rash (with 64% having <10 lesions), 73% had anogenital lesions, and 41% had mucosal lesions (with 54 having a single genital lesion). Common systemic features preceding the rash included fever (62%), lethargy (41%), myalgia (31%), and headache (27%); lymphadenopathy was also common (reported in 56%). Concomitant sexually transmitted infections were reported in 109 of 377 persons (29%) who were tested. Among the 23 persons with a clear exposure history, the median incubation period was 7 days (range, 3 to 20). Monkeypox virus DNA was detected in 29 of the 32 persons in whom seminal fluid was analyzed. Antiviral treatment was given to 5% of the persons overall, and 70 (13%) were hospitalized; the reasons for hospitalization were pain management, mostly for severe anorectal pain (21 persons); soft-tissue superinfection (18); pharyngitis limiting oral intake (5); eye lesions (2); acute kidney injury (2); myocarditis (2); and infection-control purposes (13). No deaths were reported.
Conclusions
In this case series, monkeypox manifested with a variety of dermatologic and systemic clinical findings. The simultaneous identification of cases outside areas where monkeypox has traditionally been endemic highlights the need for rapid identification and diagnosis of cases to contain further community spread.
Spoiler alert:
I really thought this thread would be dead after like, 12 posts. I realize I am contributing to the problem.
I don’t think any thread pertaining to dating and sex is going to remain idle. @mr.v3lv3t
Let’s take time to thank all the soldiers on the front lines (past and present) for advancing our defenses for cognitive health. Cheers!
Back in the 90’s we said that guys like this are covered in Bitch-Off. You know, like the bug spray, but for bitches.
“Josh tries really hard at the bars, but the poor guy is just covered in Bitch-Off.”
Or maybe he’s wearing some Clitter Ridder. Or Coochie Cutter. Or deep-woods sportsman formula Slut Stopper. Homeboy may have a coating of Ho-B-Gone and not even know it.
Naw dude I don’t ever try to impose things on my friend. If anything I was the one who preferred not to go. I didn’t want to sleep with any woman there considering all of the diseases in Miami. He wanted to go and he didn’t want to sleep with them either (or that’s what he led me to believe) He just wanted to obtain validation that he could indeed obtain a girl if he wanted. However, it didn’t workout that way. I get it cheating on your gf is bad and I do feel bad about it, but I don’t love any of those other girls.
Also what I meant by “you know” in my earlier post was not that he might be gay, but instead might be an Incel. He doesn’t openly hate women so I don’t categorize him as an incel. If he were I wouldn’t be his friend.
To the people who occasionally ask for a trainwreck thread when we haven’t had one for a while - y’all are the real heroes.
Mmmm… nope.
He’s definitely into you. You should hook up with him.
This seems more like a potential trainwreck rather than actual trainwreck (yet)