Singles are in your area!

How come str8s don't consult with their local LGBTQ+ friendos? I like playing matchmaker.

Gotta have local friendos first...

Yep, that's just how it is these days. Let me ask though, does it really matter?

If the girls are afraid of the guys, that's their problem, not yours. Stick the time into something else you enjoy, let nature run it's course. Find a job you don't hate, spend your money as you like, live a happy life without the anxiety of rejection.

if girls are afraid of guys, that's my problem
does it really matter?
Does a dysfunctional society matter?
- Fun fact, by doing the above, you’ll end up meeting women who don’t feel that way and are relationship material, and plenty of acquaintances who think you “don’t count” because you’re “one of the good ones”.
I understand you but I want to continue being grossed out by the idea of people thinking I am a rapist. Purely because I don't want to be desensitized to this subject.

This is kind of like how parents don’t let their kids play out anymore because the news told us it’s all pedophiles out there.

Yeah, all the pedophiles are in the church and government.

Single X in my area. Uses the plural form.

Well, which is it?!??

Took me longer than I'd care to admit.

It's a sad reality, but women literally risk life and limb by meeting a strange man. Dating platforms are crawling with predators, when one is identified it can take weeks or months to remove the account. Be patient out there gentlemen.

Isn't it hilarious that women VASTLY PREFER dating strangers than from within their own social sphere? The phenomenon of "But we're friends! is a cliche for a reason.
You risk life and limb crossing the street. It is reasonable to take some precautions like looking both ways or waiting on a walk signal. It is not reasonable to assume every driver will swerve into you when they see an opportunity.
Take care to prepare for the worst for your own safety, but don't assume the worst in others.
So just need to bio-enhance women to be super strong in order to get dates, got it.
Of course it doesn't feel great to think that people are uncomfortable and threatened just being aware that you are a single man who exists in the same environment, but if that's how it's gotta be, how do you successfully communicate that you are not a threat?
- but if that's how it's gotta be, how do you successfully communicate that you are not a threat?
  That's what a predator would say.
  No, seriously, trust is built over time.
~~Dating platforms are~~ LIFE is crawling with predators
he FTFY
Edit: Just to add "predator" is not only the psycho that will kill/rape a woman. Any men that do not accept a NO, that thinks they are "playing hard to get", that catcalls a woman in the streets, ta makes an unsolicited comment about their body, that thinks woman are ment to do whatever they want... any of those men are predators.
Any men is a comment away from being a predator. Don't be this man
- What if someone were to say, start intentionally spreading rumors about men by claiming they had seen several women raped in their lives? For the sake of population control. That sounds like it would be very effective if I could find a large enough audience.
I had a friend that used to bring all her first dates to the bar I tended. Just in case.
- That's a good strategy. The first time I met my wife in person, she arranged to have a friend call and check in and give her excuse to bounce if things weren't' right.
- Wait.... Because so many of them turned out to be predators?... On the first date? Like it was THAT common?
  How many times did you have to step in and stop things?
"Be patient out there gentlemen"
Naahhh...just give up on finding anyone
- Suicide and loneliness seems like the only answer.
- Just be worthy of trust and you'll earn it.

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Seeing memes and comics like this spread so often, I am having a hard time understanding how SO MANY GUYS are just now discovering that women aren't as horny as they are and we have different standards for attraction between the genders and sexes.
This is fine, it's normal, people who want different things still meet and crank out crotchfruit every damn day, you just have to compromise and meet in the middle on what you both want and ya'll have to get over yourselves.
- Yep. When will people understand that the only way to a good and just society is to treat half the human population as inherently monstrous from birth? They should just resign themselves to a lifetime of abuse and isolation due to their physical characteristics. Anything else is misogyny.

Turns out he's a locksmith.

And he's a locksmith

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Am I not getting this ?

Gender-ragebait. Just post something about how persecuted you feel and move on.
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them“
- I love how we used to worry about overpopulation as our apocalyptic societal problem of the future.
- Thanks for the classification
The joke is rape
- thus, should be glad of not getting it
- Is it? I thought it was just "ugly men in your neighborhood"
- Which is perpetrated exclusively by single men!

"They're in the walls!"

"Better a xenomorph than a human male!"
- Game over, man! Or maybe... 😉

It's crazy how women say, "I don't feel safe around men" and then men scream, "But not all men!!1!!1 I didn't do it! Not me!!!!" like why do y'all act like you've been wronged when women don't want to be raped and assaulted? Stop making it about yourself.

Edit: Vote me down more, only proves that you're pathetic :)

If someone is judged as threatening based on their gender, they have been wronged. And what do you mean "stop making it about yourself"? Did they ask to be judged in the first place?
I sense the argument coming, so I want to put something out there.
Let's think about this using the game Among Us for a moment, hm? Forget about the gender war for a second, just think about Among Us.
In Among Us, there are, let's say, ten people trapped on a space station, but one or two of them are actually aliens pretending to be human. Their job, naturally, is to eat the other humans, in addition to creating enough plausible deniability that they won't be caught.
Now, some common arguments.
"Not all colorful little human beans are aliens trying to eat you."
Well, we know that some of them are, and they really don't want to be noticed. So, how do you avoid being eaten, then? That's right, a little bit of paranoia. In this environment, a lack of trust becomes a survival skill by necessity.
"The 'alien' problem is overblown. In fact, I think they barely exist."
Well, we know, in this video game, that they do exist. The tic-tac people are not going to survive the game by pretending the aliens aren't there. In fact, by refusing to accuse any of your friends, you are enabling the aliens to eat more of your people without consequence.
"I agree that aliens are a problem, but why does it have to include me? I'm not one of them."
Well, in Among Us, it is not possible to know who is or is not an alien on sight alone. You are forced to, by the game itself, demonstrate to other players that you are safe even in cases where you were never dangerous to begin with. Some kind of social etiquette is necessary when our other senses, our eyes for instance, cannot help us.
"Thinking all your friends are aliens trying to eat you is prejudice. It's kind of like being racist to black people."
Well, unfortunately, in this video game, we know with certainty there are secret aliens trying to eat people. As with the point above, we're not going to solve this problem by pretending they don't exist. Is it a little bit unfair that other players are forced to distrust you? Maybe. But, you just can't build trust on this space station without somehow pacifying the alien threat that is built into the game. Every player understands this dynamic.
In real life, let's imagine we have no idea whatsoever how often male aggression presents itself. We don't know if there are or are not aliens.
We can agree, I would hope, that being an alien would be a bad thing, though, right? So, is it not enough to say "I will not be one of those men, and I will stop other people from being one of those men," whether or not those men actually exist? At worst, you've committed to a fight that will never ask you to do any fighting.
You do not have to buy into the idea that most men are monsters to be an enemy of monstrous men. You do not need to concede that you are a monster to be an enemy of monstrous men.
If you insist on fighting about this, I have one or two ideas about that.
You don't believe that monstrous men exist at all, so the paranoia is unjustified. Okay. I think that you're in denial. Talk to some of the women in your life. Ask them about what they've dealt with.
You feel insecure and lonely because people naturally distrust you. I get that. That's hard. Especially in a world where you can barely make friends without a car or money, that's really tough. To a point I've made twice, though, if monstrous men are real, if they really exist, then this unfairness you're subject to will not go away unless the thing that's causing it is dealt with. This is a non-negotiable bit of math that you need to come to terms with.
- I like this analogy so much and it's so on-point. Thanks writing this up
- I think the problem with your argument is the measure of paranoia. It's 100% reasonable to be suspicious and cautious around men, strange or familiar, if you're a woman. The issue I think most men have to this isn't reasonable suspicion or reasonable caution, but rather the over the top reaction women online seem to have.
  An example of this might be a youtube video about women checking into a hotel alone vs a man checking into a hotel alone. The man checks in and goes right to bed, the lock on the door automatically engages when the door closes. The example with the woman has her block the one way peephole, double check the deadbolt, brace a chair against the door handle, string a tight rope from the door handle to a firm anchor in the bathroom, unplug the phone, close the blinds, check that the mirror isn't see through, and sweep the room for listening devices. You see this and think it must be satire, and it might be, but then you go into the comments and there's a ton of women saying how true this is and how you gotta be careful of men when traveling alone. Every so often you'll see a comment from a man about how this is insane and all the women respond how he's privileged and doesn't understand why women have to do all this.
  No man is going to begrudge a reasonable reaction to strangers and safety, but relating to a comic about seeing a spam notification about singles in your area and locking your door is ridiculous. It's this over the top reaction that men become offended by, not reasonable caution.
- Your analogy doesn't include some important details for the subject. In the game, crewmates and imposters are on different teams and only one of them can win. It's not "wrong" for an imposter to kill a crewmate because that's how they play. All players support imposters killing crewmates because it's what they signed up for. But in real life, we are on the same team. We are all crewmates doing our tasks, although I guess we have the option to kill each other. Acting as if someone doing their tasks near you wants to kill you is then a more meaningful personal judgement rather than just the impersonal scrutiny expected in a social deduction game.
  More importantly, it's relevant that this is one group of people making a judgement about another group of people based on group membership. So it would be like green crewmates assuming a red crewmate is an imposter on the basis of them being red, not any suspicious activity they have noticed. If crewmates had equal innate suspicion towards each other regardless of color (as should happen in the game) then there is no issue.
- sdbiybt
Sure, but that's more a reaction to the comic than the comic itself.
I see the comic as expressing a morbid, comedic irony in reciprocal situations between the sexes: non-threatening in one case yet threatening in the other indicating a deeper issue in society.
Literally. It's the bear thing all over again. If you're offended by stuff like this, you're basically telling on yourself.
People don't like being generalized, especially based on something they didn't choose.
- Well women don't choose to get raped!
I don't feel safe around muslims because some of them are jihadists.

That's not sexist at all

In college, I saw a sign that said something like 1 in 6 women will be sexually assaulted. Based on conversations with women around me and my own experiences, I’m pretty sure it’s actually 6 in 6 women.
Before you get upset, yes, I am aware men get assaulted too. That’s not okay either.
- I agree with this. Problem is that it is not done by most men, but this post makes it seem like most of them do or want to.
Women would literally rather be stuck with a bear rather than a man they do not know. So, is it sexism? Or is there a fundamental problem (read patriarchy) that makes women scared of men.
Do you think it’s sexist to report that men commit 90% of all rape and sexual assault?
- Its about as sexist to say that, as it is racist to spout crime statistics about black people without solution.
- That is way more than just patriarchal society. If a woman would rather be stuck in a room with a bear than a man she doesn't know, there's something psychologically wrong with that woman.
  The only way you'd choose a bear over a stranger is if you have a prejudice that all men are violent or rapists. Because the bear will most likely kill you.
- So if I am being an asshole, I should make the "logical" jump that all single women are whores and sluts because majority of prostitutes are women.
  Not all men and not all women. Generalising is never good.
This is like saying that recognizing gay people are assaulted more often is homophobic
- It really really isn't the same thing. Stop strawmanning.
You've fallen for the classic blunder.
By jumping in and commenting, you have proven them right in their minds.
It's a thought terminating trap. Women are allowed to call out sexism when they see it against themselves, whereas men are not allowed to call out sexism when they see it against themselves.
- One user called me a rapist for this. Like wtf. How anything defending men can be converted to men are rapist pigs, is fascinating.
It takes five minutes to find data that shows that this is very much not sexism.
- What data?