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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 188 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I’m a 42 year old man with a cat and still single due to living in a very rural republican area and all women here are hardcore Trump fans so I’ll just stay single and spend time with my cat.

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 153 points 4 days ago (7 children)
[–] tatann@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

Cute derpy face

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 30 points 4 days ago

I see you understood your assignment before we even needed to tell you =D

[–] basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 days ago

omg! I LOVE her!

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a great cat! I'm sure the cost of vacuum bags is worth it!

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wanna date me? I'm Canadian and I have a really sexy permanent residence card waiting for you. Bats eyelashes.

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Hey, wanna marry me and my wife?

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It must be hard to find friends too in that area. Hope you are doing fine.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

I do alright, it’s crazy just like most things seeing people and friends you grew up with slowly becoming brainwashed and you having to distance yourself from them. Like most conservative people Covid broke and still is breaking a lot of people’s minds here.

[–] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I feel that..my Ginger is all I need here in bumfuck Kentucky.

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[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 113 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

$ cat companion

Command 'cat' not found

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 35 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Command 'cat' not found

The fuck kinda system you running

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 25 points 4 days ago

Oooooh, that joke went right over my head hah

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That gives me anxiety on a few levels.

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[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 67 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I mean, ya gotta be careful. Are they conservative because they are lonely, or are they lonely because they are conservative

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 80 points 5 days ago (15 children)

I suspect that women aren't dating conservative men, not because they want to punish them, but because they would personally rather not date a horrible person.

It's a pretty bad spiral. Lonely men develop more extremist views, which makes them less attractive to women, which makes them lonelier, and they get even more extremist views, etc.

Like, if you lined all of the single men up who vote against women's rights, and asked an equal number of women to sacrifice their own happiness to date them, a certain number of those horrible men would turn a corner and start to act like a human. But who is going to give up their own happiness to fix some broken asshole stranger? Very few people.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (5 children)

You can't put that on the women. Men have got to get their shit together. Just show a bit of empathy, bro! It's not that hard, humans are literally wired for it. It's just that capitalism is reinforcing humankind's worst impulses.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There is a whole industries to radicalize men. They try to get them hooked with "women don't want to date me" and get them on the social media conveyor belt towards becoming a good right wing radical that's immune to any logic.

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[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 15 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Absolutely don’t put that on women, but it is a mental illness so you can’t ask them to get their shit together they need help.

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[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Men have got to get their shit together. Just show a bit of empathy, bro! It’s not that hard, humans are literally wired for it.

There's a concept from the autism community called the double empathy problem which posits that counter to the mainstream narrative that people with autism are lacking/missing empathy, autistic people do have empathy. The theory suggests that the brains of autistic individuals processes information and stimuli so dramatically differently from 'neurotypical' people that neurotypical people are typically unable to accurately understand what is going on in the neurodiverse mind and vice versa. It suggests that empathy seems to most easily work neurodiverse-to-neurodiverse and neurotypical-to-neurotypical which to me makes sense.

Now there are certainly plenty of people in the modern world who seem unable to display any form of empathy, but this theory does highlight that empathy isn't a binary and depends on your ability to understand the mind of another.

There is no single way to be empathetic, and it is entirely possible that one person thinks they are being empathetic when in fact they are being antagonistic to the other. My point is that empathy can look different to different groups.

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[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I suspect that women aren’t dating conservative men

Well, there are plenty of conservative women too, so that can't tell the whole story, can it?

Looks like conservative men and liberal women are in similar boats, statistically:

In broad terms, there are only 0.6 single liberal young men for each single liberal young woman; likewise, only 0.5 single conservative young women exist for every conservative young man. Statistically, in other words, about half of these ideologically minded young singles face the prospect of failing to find a partner who shares their politics.

This implies the liberal men are dating the conservative women, lol.

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are a lot of progressive men that are lonely. I'd say, I fall under that category. And woof, dating as a progressive man ain't no walk in the park.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Here I am going to be the distasteful contrarian progressive, but it's because I'm desperately hoping people see that the difference isn't dating.

Because yes, you are right, as a single progressive man, dating is no walk in the park. Plenty of good reasons for this on the side of women.

Are you lonely as termed by the actual problem of male loneliness? Do you have at least a couple of friends who you can get to lunch with? Do you have a brother, sister, cousin, parents, etc. nearby? Do you have someone to help you if you get sick? Do you have an active social group you feel included in?

If the answer to them is no, then yes, definitely you are in the loneliness group. Sure, dating can help with it - but what happens if/when you break up: you don't have the support there.

I'm really worried about how people are continuing to separate and blame things that aren't the root of problems on distractions.

Like I get it. I'm there. I'm divorced, I'm coming to terms that I was in a 15 year abusive relationship, I'm hurt by her cheating on me twice, I'm hurt by her rejecting my joys and attempts at connecting and reconnecting, I miss the idea of being with her. It's been over two years since I slept next to her, or anyone.

She tried to isolate me. She love bombed me. She gaslit me. She threatened me.

But I had a kid, I have my parents, my brother, several friends, a couple of regular groups I meet up with. I desperately want the love life I pretended to have. But if it weren't for that support system in place, I would have killed myself two years ago.

Instead I lost the weight that was actually killing me. I put muscle on where I've had none. There are physical features I cannot change that affect my physical attractiveness that I get that will impede my ability to date via apps.

That's how I was able to figure this all out. The fact that you are progressive means that you see the value in other people, and see the value in connection.

There has been narratives pushed for decades to try and isolate us, gaslight us, and threaten us as humans. We need to put our oxygen mask on first before helping others.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 14 points 4 days ago

They are conservative because they are stupid

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 43 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Authoritarians are probably less likely to keep cats, either because they’re not obedient/useful or because keeping cats is coded as feminine and thus contemptible.

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[–] peregrin5@piefed.social 41 points 4 days ago (4 children)

if every conservative woman hitched with every conservative man they would be 84% in a relationship.

but many conservative men are unpalatable even to conservative women

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 days ago (4 children)

it's almost like being conservative comes with almost inherent traits that make someone undesirable as a partner. lack of open mindedness, critical thinking, any form of emotional maturity...

there's a reason many conservatives in dating apps hide their beliefs. they know its a red flag for many more things than their "politics".

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[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The last woman I dated before my current girlfriend was a conservative woman. I didn't see any flags for it, she seemed really open minded, and was very well educated. Shame on me for being so blind I suppose.

She turned out to have a husband and a young son. I'm not entirely sure what to believe since cheaters will say a lot of things, but she apparently hated her marriage a lot. She wouldn't leave due to her beliefs though.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

She wouldn't leave the marriage due to beliefs, but she would cheat, huh?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 4 days ago

sounds like the conservative way.

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[–] Vreyan31@reddthat.com 24 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Meanwhile, all the progressive poly guys I know who have figured out how to deeply respect women have more partners than they really have time for. And quite a few of them are not "good looking" by any conventional standard (though some are).

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[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As someone left of Mamdani, why should my choice of Linux distro prevent me from having a loving feline pet?

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Enterprises don't get pets. Why else would you use RH?

[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Did anyone rise think this was about folks who use a paid version of Linux?

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (7 children)

People usually want romantic partners to have a heart and a brain, and redhats and libertarians have neither.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Good. There are values and traits that should not procreate.

"Grab 'em by the lack of pussy."

Bunch of em are probably on Grindr with each other

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