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  1. I get the impression we're either preaching to a choir or like ships passing in the night, here. All of this "grow a pair, man up, flirt harder, hit the gym, get a haircut"-type advice is as well-intentioned as it is misguided. We're dealing with a pathological problem that is so profound, you'd be better off advising a paraplegic to try going on walks if they want to get in shape to run marathons. The discourse about the effects of smartphones, iPads, and social media algorithms might get us to a partial explanation, but I'm not sold on the idea that this is happening on generational lines. As many have shared, there always have been clueless and hopeless guys who either resigned themselves to a life of isolation or regularly patronize sex workers in lieu of a dating life. It might be more widespread these days, especially among the generation that lost a few years of in-person school/college. My observation in regard to those people is that the venue and rituals for socialization have changed. Everything happens in group chats and DMs. People are constantly in a state of giving Continuous Partial Attention to their surroundings (but it's not just the Gen Z, Alpha who are guilty of this). You can be switching between several deep conversations, while listening to some podcast, while trying to do homework or respond to work e-mails. That's how I see much of modern socialization going on, even when you're sitting at brunch with the most important people in your life, there in the flesh. People's heads are buried in their phones, but they aren't necessarily ignorant of their surroundings or mentally absent from the situation. In many instances, their brief departures into their inboxes and social media feeds will spark new lines of conversation. Slutcon really only tries to address one discrete obstacle that certain kinds of guys encounter, and the author ties this obstacle to cancel culture and post-#MeToo rules of engagement. The obstacle is their lack of intimacy experiences, tied to a bewilderment regarding the rules of engagement surrounding consent. They made a whole blockbuster comedy about the idea of a guy having reached the age of 40 as a virgin, and the reason the movie worked as a premise is because there's a general understanding that the dating world stigmatizes the lack of sexual experience. AND AND AND, it's even possible for this to happen when the guy is seemingly normal and likeable. A guy who isn't inherently hopeless, he just missed the boat for one reason or the other. A guy who could get dates, if he wasn't so afraid of what would happen when things get intimate and he's outed as inexperienced.
  2. This explains the "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" tweet. These oligarchs were reached for comment, got spooked, and went crying to daddy
  3. Going on Fox News and pretending to care about victims isn't enough of an explanation for you??
  4. They need to turn it around asap to avoid the lottery
  5. This is good....why? (other than Houston losing)
  6. I won't rule out that the whole "raped a 13 year old and witnessed the murder of an infant on Lake Michigan" thing is true, but until there's some corroboration, it's more likely to have been a crazy person saying crazy shit and the "tip" ended up in the file. They have a strong incentive to poison the well with decoy smoking guns so that the public loses confidence and interest in the Epstein Files. Boy Who Cried Wolf principle.
  7. Thunder, Nuggets, Lakers, Rockets, and Hawks all lose
  8. Wemby needs his block, this one's over
  9. He needs that block though
  10. Spurs and Thunder is on if UNLV - Ohio is doing too much of a number on your blood pressure
  11. I do wish Fox was more consistent Considering Wemby has been noticeably less active, I'll fucking take it.
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