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    3 months ago

    Andrew Tate is the absolute worst, but it is also a fact - one that has been true for all of recorded history - that competing with each other for female attention is a generally popular male motivation. And when a guy doesn’t do those things, he can expect mockery. Do you have anything nice to say about neckbeards? No? Didn’t think so.

    • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, men policing other men’s commitment to masculinity, by mocking and putting others down and being violent, is an almost universal thing.

      And also a disease. And it shouldn’t exist.

      (I’m not implying you’re saying it should. I’m just stating it shouldn’t)

    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I mean the premise is flawed. The “neckbeards” are not intrinsically unlovable but they are getting duped into being annoying and problematic to people.

      When you treat the attention of any kind of people as a status symbol or a commodity to use for bragging rights or prestige for others it’s not exactly fair to the people whom you are essentially using. You see the same principle with famous people. Being in any kind of relationship with someone, even friends, soley because you like what their association does for your image is a jerk thing to do

      The people who do the mocking are every bit at fault for being assholes. Only when the person being mocked accepts the assholes premise as true and care about their acceptance do they also become an asshole in turn.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I can’t think of anything nice to say about neckbeards but I can say some lovely things about some guys I know who spend more time playing games than working out

    • S_204@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      You’re being downvoted for pointing out human nature. You’re not wrong, we compete for females. We’re animals, even if people want to lie and claim we’ve progressed. We have not.

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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        3 months ago

        So i take it if you fancy a new “female” you kill her previous partner in a fight and then her children with that partner, so she will focuse her attention on the children you make with her. If necessary by raping her? Also if there is no nee females available you will rape and make new children with your own daughters?

        Because that is what animals do.

        • S_204@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          Are you trying to use this argument to deny evolution or evolutionary instinct? Cuz your attempted argument makes no sense. Trying to claim humans aren’t driven to procreate is simply contrary to all available information.

          • Are you not understanding that social and cultural evolution is part of evolution and that there might be good reason why not murdering and rapeing each other like animals do, is an evolutionary advantage?

            • S_204@lemm.ee
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              3 months ago

              Social evolution is a wonderful thing, it’s not stronger than your biological imperative though. Maybe one day, but that days not today. The guy is still going to chase the virile woman and the woman is still going to seek comfort and safety.

      • Clam_Cathedral@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        “Nature” doesn’t have any rigid set of rules that push us to be anything specific, in fact it’s very much the opposite resulting in evolution and adaptation that is constantly interfering with the traits getting passed down. Sure we have biological mechanisms resulting from this that will reward us for things that tend to increase the population over time, because individuals that didn’t were unlikely to reproduce, but even those aren’t consistent from individual to individual, and are regularly suppressed and regulated in response to changing environments as would be seen in nature. Nature is constantly and relentlessly progressing, it’s just slow on a human timescale.

        Science and nature are not forcing you or anyone to be misogynistic, that’s just the excuse many have decided to use so they don’t have to confront themselves or the complicated societal issues behind it.

        • S_204@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          Nature has one general rule…procreate.

          That’s why you’re here. Me too.