• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    If you get mocked for rejecting a woman, you’re either still in school, or need to get some better friends. Because no sane, rational people would ever think less of you for who you do/don’t date.

    Tell me you have never been next to an in-group of women when one of them have been turned down, without saying you have absolutely no clue about inter-female dynamics and discussions.

    Like, holy flaming ignorance, Batman. Do you walk through life completely blind? Or have you never just observed women, especially when they don’t know (or don’t care) that another man is within earshot?

    Yes, not all women, but holy hell certainly a fair majority of them.

    Men reject women all the time, with no societal repercussions.

    The only possible conclusion I can draw: you have never rejected a woman, nor seen a woman be rejected and - more importantly - witnessed the aftermath once the woman has returned to her in-group.

    In my several decades of being an adult I’ve seen plenty of vicious whisper campaigns that targeted not only the man, but also any other woman he was even mildly friendly towards.

    And it’s directly proportional to how high a social status the man has. So maybe you’ve not personally experienced it because you have an extremely low social status? Like, double-wide-trailer low? IDK, I’m just trying to understand how you’re missing trivially-observable real-world evidence.

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      I have not seen the evidence you’ve seen. Maybe your social circle is particularly fucked up? Maybe mine is luckily less judgmental? … What you described is common for college and early twenties, in my experience, and less so after that.

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        I’ve seen women in their 30s and 40s engage in it.

        It’s not restricted to higher ed or younger ages in the least.

        I’m now in my fifth decade, and no longer care to be around that kind of drama anymore, so over the last decade and a bit I have taken pains to distance myself from those social circles that engage in it.

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      Well yeah, if you turn down a woman, she’s going to tell her friends about it.
      And those friends probably won’t be interested in starting a relationship with you any time soon.

      Those secret whisper campaigns sound straight out of a teenage movie, and not at all how mature people behave. I’d say you dodged a bullet in that case.

      Your anecdotal experience is not representative of everyone else’s though, and neither is mine.

      I don’t appreciate you resorting to personal attacks to convey your beliefs, so this will be my last reply.