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Eh, I'm actively in the dating pool and so far it's been face to face for first date as per usual.
I'd find it odd to do a facetime/etc before meeting, but I'm old. |
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Quoted: Where do you people find these women. And by you people, I literally mean you people. View Quote My buddy asks me the same questions. I tell him the same thing I tell everyone. You have to go places. Make a habit of going somewhere actively social at least three days a week, whether you feel like it or not. If you don’t have access to social outlets, find them. They are everywhere. |
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Quoted: Nope. The fuck do I want student loan debt "educated" for? Is there another shit ticket shortage coming? Because that's about all that degree is useful for, for the most that are "educated". View Quote Funny, if you are a high school drop out with millions they would gladly blow you in front of a club of random people rather go out on a nice a guy who is in college, with debt, working a min wage job. This is just women being hypergamous whores because they have been freed of any consequences for being such. Its ok for them to want what is above them, totally ok, but the sec a guy who is of a lower SMV (real or perceived) dares to even look in the same fucking direction as a woman, let alone at her he must be "creepy" or "weird" and God fucking forbid he even starts to commit the crime of talking to her, let alone hitting on her. Do this work? You might as well just quit your field and work on a oil rig because you are NOT going to get hired anywhere, ever again. So you know what ladies, enjoy! Enjoy this fucking insanity infected world, you didnt want anything but the best because you were always told you were the best, but the truth is your are not the best, you never were, you were just fed lies by your dad`s and the slew of men who wanted to pick you up, and you just went with the best looking one and looked down on the decent guys who may not have had a Lear, Bentley, or made 7 plus figures a year, and then you sit around in your mid 30s wondering "Why arent men into me anymore?" crying out "Where have the good men gone!?", the truth is you and the insanity you helped create (because it felt good, muh minorities, muh children's, muh feelz!) made it impossible to be a "good man" so now us males are merely reverting back to what worked before you lunatics were allowed to ruin society, IE Being Good at Being a Man Self improvement (Working out, mental/emotional fortitude, Stoicism, Self-Education) Entrepreneurship(Investing in Crypto, starting online businesses, real estate) Political Activist (taking power and wielding it to our benefit, ending divorce rape) Men are rejecting the insanity of clownword, we are rejecting the lies of Gobohomo and focusing and working themselves and when men come out of the forge of self improvement they come out as Chads, and Chads are not going for debt ridden, fat, blue haired, fat, loud, fat, mentally ill, fat, insane, trainwreaks. Chads are going for young, hot, women who want something of value, and it pisses these failures of women off to no end to know that their is a finite amount of time to their golden years. So ladies, you can sit with your cats, and your wine, screaming and bitching about the world you and your beta male simps helped create passing you by until it (much like you) all falls apart. Do not whine, cry, or scream girls, because no one is there to listen, let alone care. Just remember one thing. You Wanted This. |
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View Quote Yeah, unless you are Ryan Gosling, with Ron Jeremy dick, with Elon`s Bank account you deserve nothing, no attention, not compassion, no sex, nothing. So you know what? Fuck it, Fuck Them, Fuck this system. |
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Quoted: A lot of psychobabble bullshit that Nancy boys and simps will listen to. Real men asking a woman out for a date: Man - Hey baby do you want to go out for a hamburger and a fuck?. Woman - No. No I do not. Man - What's the matter, you don't like hamburgers?. It really is that simple and it works. View Quote And was that before or after Security kicked you out? All the same, it just seems like women just do not want average dudes, they just want the best and they will not bother with anything less. |
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Quoted: Lol, men will do anything to get some. Make horrible choices after they do. Women will make the most outrageous standards which over time will diminish and make stupid mistakes in the process. Social media and internet just threw gasoline over everything and selects for curious absurdity giving a skewed picture of reality. There needs to be a swing back to order, we've been living in chaos since after the 60s with small lulls in the 80s/90s. View Quote @mochaTX Why Mocha? What happened in the 1960s? And who pushed it? |
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Quoted: @mochaTX Why Mocha? What happened in the 1960s? And who pushed it? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Lol, men will do anything to get some. Make horrible choices after they do. Women will make the most outrageous standards which over time will diminish and make stupid mistakes in the process. Social media and internet just threw gasoline over everything and selects for curious absurdity giving a skewed picture of reality. There needs to be a swing back to order, we've been living in chaos since after the 60s with small lulls in the 80s/90s. @mochaTX Why Mocha? What happened in the 1960s? And who pushed it? This began with hormonal birth control and the Sexual Revolution. Apps like Tinder/Bumble/Hinge/IG/TikTok are just accelerants. Things are going to continue along the ultrahypergamous trajectory for quite a while, IMO. |
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Chicks want a guy with a 1984 Red Corvette, hair, wearing a Members Only jacket, with a kilo of coke, stacks of $100 bills, a cock the size of John Holmes who looks like the latest Hollyweird heart throb.
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Quoted: virtual groping will be a crime by the end of this decade. View Quote Did you see this? National Post: Woman groped by stranger on Meta's virtual reality social media platform |
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Why do you MGTOW types read some many bullshit articles about women and dating. What else in the news media has proven true enough that you believe these filler articles?
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Quoted: So ladies, you can sit with your cats, and your wine, screaming and bitching about the world you and your beta male simps helped create passing you by until it (much like you) all falls apart. Do not whine, cry, or scream girls, because no one is there to listen, let alone care. Just remember one thing. You Wanted This. View Quote Remember You Wanted This |
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give me some bullet points, im not reading all that unless this gets to a 10+ pager.
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Quoted: Why do you MGTOW types read some many bullshit articles about women and dating. What else in the news media has proven true enough that you believe these filler articles? View Quote |
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Women really don't know what they want from a man. I've seen it time and time again in women's videos/articles describing "The Perfect Partner" They seem to want an Alpha-SIMP which doesn't exist, they want dudes that are masculine as fuck, but also super gay at the same time too.
What they really want is an Alpha who isn't a jerk to them, Jordan Peterson said it best, they want "The Beast" from Beauty and the Beast, someone who can be scary, but has it under control, and isn't scary towards them. I'm glad I'm married to a normal woman who knew what she wanted, and don't have to deal with that shit anymore. |
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Quoted: What they really want is an Alpha who isn't a jerk to them, Jordan Peterson said it best, they want "The Beast" from Beauty and the Beast, someone who can be scary, but has it under control, and isn't scary towards them. I'm glad I'm married to a normal woman who knew what she wanted, and don't have to deal with that shit anymore. View Quote I rate this plausible. One of the secrets to happiness is finding a well-adjusted woman with generally traditional values (and a healthy relationship with her father). It doesn't matter how hot the others are - if they are unstable and/or image-obsessed, run far, far away. They aren't worth your time. Stop enabling mental illness. |
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Quoted: How fucking shameful. It's one thing to be open about mental health issues, but to literally demand your partner have them is pathetic. We're a nation of people that take pride in weakness and mental health issues. So damn pathetic. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: These users "want to find somebody to lie in bed with and talk about what [they've] been going through," Ury said, "and how hard life is and how scared [they are]." Ury predicts mental health will be increasingly important to daters in 2022. A whopping 91 percent of Hinge users would prefer to date someone who goes to therapy, according to stats gathered from over 8,000 users this November. A smidge under, 89 percent, are more likely to go on a second date with someone who mentions therapy during the first. How fucking shameful. It's one thing to be open about mental health issues, but to literally demand your partner have them is pathetic. We're a nation of people that take pride in weakness and mental health issues. So damn pathetic. |
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Here's a handy little tip that works for all articles or news segments. Quit reading or turn it of when you see or hear " experts ".
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Quoted: I rate this plausible. One of the secrets to happiness is finding a well-adjusted woman with generally traditional values (and a healthy relationship with her father). It doesn't matter how hot the others are - if they are unstable and/or image-obsessed, run far, far away. They aren't worth your time. Stop enabling mental illness. View Quote |
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Quoted: Plot twist, it already has, especially because of social media. https://mashable.com/article/dating-predictions-vr-dates-voice-notes-mental-health Dating experts predict VR dates, more voice notes, deeper mental health conversations, and even more changes in how we date. We've all faced specific pandemic-fueled challenges in the past two years, and daters aren't any different. Last year, we were forced to date through screens or not at all. This year, we had a hodge-podge of varying desires — and COVID mandates — as we all attempted to navigate dating through a seemingly-endless pandemic. Given the ride the last couple years have been, what will 2022 bring us in terms of finding love? Dating experts have a few predictions, including a continued use of virtual dating, a push towards serious relationships for some and non-monogamy for others, and an emphasis on mental health and vulnerability. Virtual dating will stick around — and VR dating is on its heels Video dates, a cornerstone of early pandemic romance, are likely here to stay, said Logan Ury, director of relationship science at Hinge. Even with in-person dating on the table (possible variants notwithstanding), Hinge users often use a pre-date call or video chat as a vibe check. According to data gathered from over 5,000 global Hinge users in December 2020, more than half (65 percent) of users planned on incorporating video dates in the dating process, and Ury said Hinge has seen this expectation come to life. . Findings from Match's 2021 Singles in America survey tells a similar story. Of the 5,000 Americans aged 18 to 75 surveyed, 71 percent said a video date helped determine if they wanted to meet in person, and 63 percent said they'd feel more comfortable on a first date if they video chatted before the meetup. Voice features have also been popular on dating apps and in the broader tech world. In addition to adding video components during those initial pandemic days, dating apps also invested in audio features. Bumble added audio messages in late 2020, and Hinge implemented voice prompts for profiles this year. "The pandemic really helped us all pay attention to the importance of audio and the importance of voice," Ury said. Voice notes add an authentic, intimate dimension to a potential match's profile in a way that text and photos can't do alone. Looking into more tech-advanced dating options, Match Group (which owns Tinder, Hinge, and many other dating apps) is planning a dating metaverse, or VR space, unironically called "Single Town." Users will allegedly be able to interact with others with real-time audio and meet in virtual spaces, like a bar, explained Match Group CEO Shar Dubey in a November investor call. A virtual space has similar dangers as a physical space, though: People in Meta's (Facebook's) metaverse have already experienced sexual harassment. As such, singles should proceed with caution dating in VR just as they do with online or in-person dating. Dating coach and matchmaker Tennesha Wood urges us to remember that we're still real people with real experiences, fears, and emotions — no matter the dating method. Daters are looking for their person (or their people) As figurative or literal existential crises tend to do, the pandemic forced us to reflect on what we want out of life. This is one reason experts gave as to why so many people came out during the pandemic, but the experience also drove daters on the whole to reflect on who they want to date. They seemed to divert into two paths: Those looking for "the one," and those looking specifically for more than one. In terms of the former, Ury said a majority of Hinge users — 75 percent — are now looking for a relationship; this is a spike up from the 53 percent of users who said they were ready for something long-term at the end of last year. These users "want to find somebody to lie in bed with and talk about what [they've] been going through," Ury said, "and how hard life is and how scared [they are]." Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and Match's chief science advisor, agrees. Most singles surveyed by Match, 65 percent, want a relationship in the next year. That number soars when only considering young adults: 81 percent of Gen Z and 76 percent of millennials want romantic love. This makes sense, said Fisher, as young people are usually looking for a mate, but the figures are staggering — especially compared to how many wanted the same thing in 2019: 70 percent of Gen Z and 63 percent of millennials. Not only are people looking for their special someone, but according to Fisher they're looking for financial and romantic stability to boot. More singles want a partner at an equal or higher income now than pre-pandemic: 86 percent in 2021 compared to 70 percent in 2019. The same is true for education level: 89 percent compared to 79 percent over the same time period. More singles want a lifetime partner that's emotionally mature (83 percent) than physically attractive (78 percent). "I've never before used the word 'historic,' and [this] is a historic change in dating," Fisher said. "What people are really looking for now is emotional maturity." Some daters are also looking for a non-monogamous experience. "The pursuit of fulfillment will lead singles and couples to create their own definitions and structures for their relationships," said Wood, "lending way to ethically non-monogamous relationships and the freedom to be open." More and more people began exploring non-monogamy before the pandemic, and this trend has continued throughout it. Feeld, a sexual exploration app for singles and couples, saw a jump in both men and women using words describing ethical non-monogamy (ENM) or polyamory in their profiles from 2020 to 2021, according to the app's communication manager Lyubov Sachkova. The data didn't include non-binary users. "The pandemic has brought our sense of 'normal' into question," Wood continued, "and led many to create a new normal in ways that allow them to live more freely." Self-care is more important than ever The prolonged stress of the pandemic has also engendered a focus on mental health. While there's a burgeoning mental health crisis in the U.S., most participants in the Singles in America survey, 65 percent, told Match they got better at taking care of their mental health in the last year; 73 percent said they got better at prioritizing what's important in their lives. Ury predicts mental health will be increasingly important to daters in 2022. A whopping 91 percent of Hinge users would prefer to date someone who goes to therapy, according to stats gathered from over 8,000 users this November. A smidge under, 89 percent, are more likely to go on a second date with someone who mentions therapy during the first. This is especially interesting considering that only 8 percent of Hinge users surveyed feel comfortable mentioning therapy when meeting someone new. Given this information, Ury urges people to be open and vulnerable about how they're caring for their mental health. "We are afraid to be vulnerable and bold about what's really going on for us," Ury explained, "but actually, when we share that information, people like us more, people feel more drawn to us, more curious about us, safer with us, [and] more likely to bring up their own mental health struggles." In 2022, don't be afraid to divulge how you're taking care of yourself. Throw the hardball In keeping with being transparent, Ury also predicts daters will be more forward about what they want from dating. She called this upfront approach "hardballing." An example Ury gave of hardballing is saying this on the first date: "Hey, I've been dating for awhile and I know I want to get married and have kids eventually. What are you looking for?" "It's not demanding a certain answer from someone," she explained, "but it's being very honest and vulnerable from the beginning about what you want, and asking the other person what they want." There's already evidence that this is what people want. In Tinder's Future of Dating report this March, their number one prediction was that daters would be more honest and authentic moving forward. Mentions of the word "anxiety" in bios shot up 31 percent between 2020 and 2021, further punctuating the mental health discussion. A more recent survey of over 1,000 U.S. users from the app Coffee Meets Bagel this fall said that 79 percent find themselves being more open and honest with matches now than pre-pandemic. Moving into the new year, daters are solid about what they want and are more than willing to express it than before. While the pandemic taught us we can't predict everything, the experts and data hint that in 2022, we'll run towards our desires with a newfound openness. Nothing like it when they tell on themselves and relegate themselves to the slampiece-tier View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: Funny, if you are a high school drop out with millions they would gladly blow you in front of a club of random people rather go out on a nice a guy who is in college, with debt, working a min wage job. This is just women being hypergamous whores because they have been freed of any consequences for being such. Its ok for them to want what is above them, totally ok, but the sec a guy who is of a lower SMV (real or perceived) dares to even look in the same fucking direction as a woman, let alone at her he must be "creepy" or "weird" and God fucking forbid he even starts to commit the crime of talking to her, let alone hitting on her. Do this work? You might as well just quit your field and work on a oil rig because you are NOT going to get hired anywhere, ever again. So you know what ladies, enjoy! Enjoy this fucking insanity infected world, you didnt want anything but the best because you were always told you were the best, but the truth is your are not the best, you never were, you were just fed lies by your dad`s and the slew of men who wanted to pick you up, and you just went with the best looking one and looked down on the decent guys who may not have had a Lear, Bentley, or made 7 plus figures a year, and then you sit around in your mid 30s wondering "Why arent men into me anymore?" crying out "Where have the good men gone!?", the truth is you and the insanity you helped create (because it felt good, muh minorities, muh children's, muh feelz!) made it impossible to be a "good man" so now us males are merely reverting back to what worked before you lunatics were allowed to ruin society, IE Being Good at Being a Man Self improvement (Working out, mental/emotional fortitude, Stoicism, Self-Education) Entrepreneurship(Investing in Crypto, starting online businesses, real estate) Political Activist (taking power and wielding it to our benefit, ending divorce rape) Men are rejecting the insanity of clownword, we are rejecting the lies of Gobohomo and focusing and working themselves and when men come out of the forge of self improvement they come out as Chads, and Chads are not going for debt ridden, fat, blue haired, fat, loud, fat, mentally ill, fat, insane, trainwreaks. Chads are going for young, hot, women who want something of value, and it pisses these failures of women off to no end to know that their is a finite amount of time to their golden years. So ladies, you can sit with your cats, and your wine, screaming and bitching about the world you and your beta male simps helped create passing you by until it (much like you) all falls apart. Do not whine, cry, or scream girls, because no one is there to listen, let alone care. Just remember one thing. You Wanted This. View Quote You described my ex and her divorced friend pretty closely. My ex has been hanging around a lot in the last year. It appears when they hit 37, they get a lot less attention on the apps. Suits me fine she's not seeing anyone because it means I get to see my kids more often and I don't have to worry about strange men being around my kids. Watching her flail doesn't give me any joy except that it confirms that I made the right choice when her behavior went off the rails. It's all so tiresome yet predictable. Even down to telling her whats wrong with guys she dates. She asks so I tell her. He was a douche and a liar in high school and he's definitely going to be the same now. I am Nostradamus and no one listens to me. |
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Quoted: @Stoney0102 Thanks for the personal attack. Hope you and the family had a Merry Christmas. ?? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: RED ALERT! MIGTOW male believes women are going to tectonicly shift to be attracted to guys who smell like basement water...he hopes. @Stoney0102 Thanks for the personal attack. Hope you and the family had a Merry Christmas. ?? General comment not specifying anyone in particular. I can't control your Jimmy and what rustles it. |
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Quoted: virtual groping will be a crime by the end of this decade. View Quote Even worse it will be retroactive so they will be able to look back decades earlier through those late night test. that girl you were trying to hook up with will decide 30 years from now that your virtually raped her. |
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Quoted: How fucking shameful. It’s one thing to be open about mental health issues, but to literally demand your partner have them is pathetic. We’re a nation of people that take pride in weakness and mental health issues. So damn pathetic. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: These users "want to find somebody to lie in bed with and talk about what [they've] been going through," Ury said, "and how hard life is and how scared [they are]." Ury predicts mental health will be increasingly important to daters in 2022. A whopping 91 percent of Hinge users would prefer to date someone who goes to therapy, according to stats gathered from over 8,000 users this November. A smidge under, 89 percent, are more likely to go on a second date with someone who mentions therapy during the first. How fucking shameful. It’s one thing to be open about mental health issues, but to literally demand your partner have them is pathetic. We’re a nation of people that take pride in weakness and mental health issues. So damn pathetic. I would like to think it is just something in the subset of people that are drawn to a service like match in the first place, but probably not. |
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tldr.
I’m so old, my now wife would get hand written letters when we were dating, and I had to lick a 33 cent stamp to get them to her. I don’t see myself doing well in todays dating pool… Off to install a light and switch. I need to keep my wife very happy. |
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Quoted: Did you see this? National Post: Woman groped by stranger on Meta's virtual reality social media platform View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: virtual groping will be a crime by the end of this decade. Did you see this? National Post: Woman groped by stranger on Meta's virtual reality social media platform That story is just peak 2021 ???? lmao |
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Quoted: On the plus side, it really helps weed out the weirdos. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: These users "want to find somebody to lie in bed with and talk about what [they've] been going through," Ury said, "and how hard life is and how scared [they are]." Ury predicts mental health will be increasingly important to daters in 2022. A whopping 91 percent of Hinge users would prefer to date someone who goes to therapy, according to stats gathered from over 8,000 users this November. A smidge under, 89 percent, are more likely to go on a second date with someone who mentions therapy during the first. How fucking shameful. It's one thing to be open about mental health issues, but to literally demand your partner have them is pathetic. We're a nation of people that take pride in weakness and mental health issues. So damn pathetic. Credit where credit is due, that's a major advantage. So easy to screen out the chaff. |
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Quoted: Doing that would naturally lower the sexual value of women, and we can't have that in our matriarchy. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Can we just legalize prostitution so I don't have to deal with e-thots? Doing that would naturally lower the sexual value of women, and we can't have that in our matriarchy. Attached File |
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Quoted: General comment not specifying anyone in particular. I can't control your Jimmy and what rustles it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: RED ALERT! MIGTOW male believes women are going to tectonicly shift to be attracted to guys who smell like basement water...he hopes. @Stoney0102 Thanks for the personal attack. Hope you and the family had a Merry Christmas. ?? General comment not specifying anyone in particular. I can't control your Jimmy and what rustles it. Sounds like a passive aggressive deflection... Certain threads of mine get you very bootyhurt, sorry not sorry bud Hope you and yours have a happy and healthy 2022 |
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Married.
If I were single still in this day and age, Id rent a professional when I had needs that needed to be satisfied. Much cheaper and no brain damage. |
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Quoted: Im married so dating is not really a concern. But more girl buttholes on the internet the better. View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: And was that before or after Security kicked you out? All the same, it just seems like women just do not want average dudes, they just want the best and they will not bother with anything less. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: A lot of psychobabble bullshit that Nancy boys and simps will listen to. Real men asking a woman out for a date: Man - Hey baby do you want to go out for a hamburger and a fuck?. Woman - No. No I do not. Man - What's the matter, you don't like hamburgers?. It really is that simple and it works. And was that before or after Security kicked you out? All the same, it just seems like women just do not want average dudes, they just want the best and they will not bother with anything less. Security kicked me out! That's funny because I am in charge of security. |
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I really did enjoy VR Chat.
Stuff like this happens: VIRTUAL REALITY DRAGONBALL ADVENTURE! EPISODE 3! Holy Shit you can Mario 64 stuff in VR. |
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