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[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 193 points 11 months ago

Truth is the second option one is just a normal ass guy. Everyone has emotions and needs. The fact is it's still taboo to be a "man" and have emotions.

Like honestly tell me any other option on there is preferable to someone with emotions... She acting like women don't require the same thing? Gtfoh. It's not even a bad thing. It's just a human thing.

[-] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What she's referring to isn't the same as having emotions. She means the people who expect everyone around them, especially their romantic partner, to manage their emotions for them. Plenty of women do it, too.

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[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

one of the main points and benefits of a relationship is being able to share problems with someone else and have someone that could cheer you up or to share excitement with

'emotional labor' is for actual jobs, especially customer service type jobs

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 109 points 11 months ago

So she wants a guy with a low sex drive, who she doesnt have to have any emotional attachment to, but who emotionally invested in her, that doesnt have any self confidence, and doesnt know any feminist theory so he cant tell he's in a toxic relationship and doesnt treat her like "shit" (an equal)

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 11 months ago

is it too much to ask for?

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[-] fleabomber@lemmy.world 82 points 11 months ago

That seems a bit hard on the dudes.

[-] BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

It's kinda exhausting seeing progressive language constantly used to rag on men. I want men to be anti-racist / feminist / LGBT allies / etc. I get that there are a lot of problems with many streams of masculinity and people who have been hurt by those have a right to complain, but goddamn. I would not expect lots of women to be attracted to a movement that constantly complains about women.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have no idea who this chick is, but it aint exactly a string of hits for us guys out here either. People suck in general.

[-] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 67 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, if we're generalizing THAT much, the dating pool for guys is just as bad.

We've got:

-women who will go out with you just for a free dinner date, then never talk to you again

-women who are looking for sugar daddies

-women obsessed with their socials (IG, TikTok, etc)

-women so unnatural you question they can still be considered human (lip fillers, butt lifts, boob jobs, have you ever heard of the term "Bimbofication"?)

-all of the above

In reality, there are so many more people in this world that don't fit any of these categories on the men or women side. It's just that a lot of the "dating pool" she's talking about is centered around dating apps. The real world is so much more diverse.

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

How about “astrology and crystals are my personality”

[-] Zeon@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was with a girl in her room and when she started teaching me about astrology, I just bursted out laughing with how dumb it was. Basically, what you just said before but 10x worse with this girl, there were rocks fucking everywhere. I'm suprised Hank from Breaking Bad didn't show up.

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[-] Fungah@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Your forgetting the "I have sex" girl.

Having sex is basically her whole personality.

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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So she's complaining about sensitive guys, but also doesn't want them to be emotionally distant.

Basically wants the guy to do the "emotional labour" but not do any herself.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago

How to phrase this...

Women's behavior towards men's emotions is like...it's their very very favorite TV show, but they hate almost all of the episodes. They want you to be emotional, they want you to be in touch with your feelings...until you actually do, and she throws the remote through the screen because it's not one of the very few episodes of this show that she likes.

There are words I just don't say out loud in any context anymore because of this. "Love" is one of them. One of my exes would throw a three act opera of a shit fit if I said something like "I love jalapenos on pizza" because "You'll say you love PEPPERS but not ME!" Well yeah, Tiffany; 1 because the word has different meanings when applied to food vs applied to a person, and 2 we've been dating for five weeks at this point; I'm still in the stage of trying to determine if you're sane enough to get serious with, and early exit polls aren't looking very promising." So I say things like "I really enjoy jalapenos on pizza" and I sound like a cyborg but I'm not sitting through another fucking meltdown like that.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Its just a litany of performative complaints to get attention. Standard Social Media interaction bait. More people respond, your metrics go up, more businesses are willing to give you money to do native advertising on their behalf.

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[-] evolvor@sh.itjust.works 56 points 11 months ago

Relationships are emotional labor on both sides

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 49 points 11 months ago

Maybe she should find someone outside those social media pools then.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Social Media Influencer: "All men are trash. Everyone I meet just wants to stare at me, fuck me, or use me as a trophy."

Same Social Media Influencer: "Five Amazing Tricks to instantly get a stud's attention. When his friends see you with him, they will be so jealous!"

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[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 25 points 11 months ago

Guys who ask you about your Linux distro on the first date (none of which are hard for enough)

> guys who post on lemmy

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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 48 points 11 months ago

Meanwhile the dating pool for men contains the following:

Crickets

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 months ago

No no, there's tons and tons of scam accounts that all use the same pictures of a hot Asian supermodel, who all try to get you to buy them 10k of Bitcoin in exchange for the promise of a handy or whatever

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[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 19 points 11 months ago

Requirements:

Woman (optional)

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[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 47 points 11 months ago

Well, that post is a straight flush of red flags.

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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 44 points 11 months ago

People calling the effort you put in to support your partners, friends and family "emotional labor" are either blatantly misinformed or people who want a pass on not giving a shit about their "close ones".

Emotional labor, as a term, was created to explain the difficulties and effort someone has to engage in to regulate their emotions when they're constantly dealing with the suffering of other people during work. It's valid, just as long as you use it in its appropriate context. This dumbass appropriation of the term by a certain branch of liberals is like if someone used the physical concept of entropy to justify why they're never getting out of depression.

If someone only wants emotionless relationships with people they only interact with for their own benefit, and never giving a care in turn, that's legitimate, as long as they don't lie about their intentions. But that might also explain why this Hannah at the OP cannot find a good partner.

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[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 42 points 11 months ago

I certainly dislike people who have neat little boxes to put other people in. I know it's a human thing, still think it's detrimental.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Easy, just go bi and date other women. You still have the option for men.

Edit also it’s unfair to say what she’s saying anyways. I almost feel like your dating pool options or choices are more a reflection of you than other people. Or idk, maybe some people get unlucky.

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[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 33 points 11 months ago

The dating pool for young men is literally

-OF models

-"Sensitive" girls you have to perform constant emotional labor for

-Narcissistic (if not sociopathic) insta models

-Emotionally abusive manipulators

-Spambots

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[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago

I hate that I’m the second, and so aggressively that it’s hurt relationships before

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 43 points 11 months ago

~~if i tried to comfort you about it, though, wouldn't that just perpetuate and enable the problem?~~

...actually no, i can't even joke about it. I'm sorry people left you feeling emotionally abandoned, bro. It's not fair that you get put under this double standard. The fact is, everyone needs emotional labor. Another word for emotional labor is goddamn fucking empathy and SOME PEOPLE don't want to show any toward men.

THOSE people don't matter. The kind of woman who would look at you as a burden would, in fact, be a burden upon you.

You are worthy of love. You are worth the investment of psychological and emotional energy. You have value even above and beyond intrinsic value as a human being. And if you were here, I'd be taking us both out for tacos and/or ice cream right goddamn now.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 20 points 11 months ago

Another word for emotional labor is goddamn fucking empathy and SOME PEOPLE don't want to show any toward men.

The very people screaming the loudest about “toxic masculinity” being a problem in men, are invariably the ones imposing it the most fiercely upon men, as this woman is doing.

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[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Eh, the Twitter person can go fuck themselves. Both partners deserve emotional support and comfort. That's what being in a partnership is about. Just because men are pigeonholed by toxic masculinity doesn't mean we don't need emotional validation.

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 27 points 11 months ago

Me, an emotionally distant narcissistic porn addict: get on my level nerds

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago

Dating pool for young men is great tho. Women pick you literally if you're tall enough for their favourite shoes

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Well, it's great if you're tall enough I guess.

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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Lemmy wins again. This time it's the dating game!

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 11 months ago

nah we're just such nerds she didn't even care to mention us

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[-] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 22 points 11 months ago

I thought the last one was just conservatives making stuff up until I joined Lemmy.
Don't get me wrong, the woman in the tweet is awful, especially the part about hating men who dare to have emotions, but I'm responding purely to the last thing on this list.
A lot of Lemmy users seem to think all they need to do to be immune to misogyny is to be leftist. It's just been getting real tiring for me browsing this site seeing men be praised for things they at the same time put women down for. Not that men shouldn't be praised for these things, but the double standard here is immense.
The major one I've noticed is putting down women for having a preference on height or even dick size, but men are allowed to only want big boobs or petite women because it's "a natural expression of human sexuality."
There's also that I've seen several times men on here complaining when women are given safe spaces and resources specifically for them, like job fairs and such, and the comments being filled with how it should have been open to men as well because not doing so is sexist, meanwhile being totally ok and even ecstatic when a resource is opened specifically for men.

Like, I'm trans. I've lived on the other side of the coin. I'm glad men around here have a safe space to display their frustrations and discuss men's issues that in most places you'd be crucified for even mentioning. I just wish this could be a safe space for both genders, not just the one who holds the majority. There are a lot of times I feel straight up unwelcome on Lemmy simply because I'm a women.

[-] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

My 2c on this, I wish people would understand that a lot of women have similar struggles, same for men, and having spaces for those experiences to be shared with people who understand is really important.

I think the issue is it feels pretty othering when I've had experiences similar and feel like I'm not allowed to share them (without a lot of angry stares) because I'm not the correct gender.

I know there have been cases of women's spaces being taken less seriously, but I don't remember any specifics. Do you have any examples that come to mind?

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[-] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago
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[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

There are probably also a lot of single autistic spectrums who are actively avoiding interacting with the rest of the pool.

[-] DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Well yeah. The sane ones aren’t looking for relationships because of a combination of the world being on fire, money being worthless and nigh-impossible to obtain, and trauma from past toxic relationships. They decided to focus their efforts on their own lives rather than someone else’s.

Either that, or they don’t even need to date, because someone in their friend group snapped them up. Either or, really.

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Uhh you can switch the genders and it wouldn’t be a lie. Except the last part would be “still treats other races like shit”. In my experience many “woke” women are covert racist, especially against Asian men. Even some “woke” Western Asian women can be pretty racist against Asian men.

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