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| 1 | Guys in "female" occupations should lie about their job if they want to succeed in datingI don’t think lying about it is a good option but I understand what you mean about how it seems a lot of ladies will discount you as a viable option if your career isn’t something they have on a mental list of “good” jobs, like finance, a dr, ect. It can be frustrating, especially if you make more than what a guy your age in one of those “good” jobs like finance makes. For example a friend of mine does high level software work at the admin/corporate level for Walmart, but he’s had the issue of w… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/12/24 04:59 PM |
| 3 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.Yeah you’re just reiterating my statements man, we both read the same charts. It’s interesting data but we are missing a lot of context due to the lack of followup questions. I have my own ideas of how the data breaks down based off how it fits into my worldview and life experiences but that’s purely anecdotal. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 07:14 PM |
| 3 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.Yeah so if 64% of all adults aren’t looking, that could explain half of the dudes who are single if it was a 50/50 male female split which I don’t know if it is. I’d also be curious to see why they aren’t looking. Like are a lot of the men who aren’t looking not doing so because they got tired of trying and gave up, or is it because they don’t believe they make/have enough money to date competently. Those kinds of things could be temporary reasons not to look vs being completely checked out of t… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 06:14 PM |
| 3 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.Yes that was exactly my point as to why you need to show the split between those groups and the ones that are struggling. As they are both single but otherwise very different. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 04:12 PM |
| 1 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.Because we have no idea how big the split is and what the implications are without that additional context. Why wouldn’t you want more detailed knowledge about something? If you’re still in school I would really recommend taking a stats class especially a business or stem based stats class over a social sciences one. It’s a great way to see how surveys work and how easily data can be misunderstood or intentionally misrepresented if it doesn’t have the right qualifiers attached to it. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 03:14 PM |
| 1 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.You’re misinterpreting my original comment. Those were examples of men who could fall into very different groups socially but were all still under the 63% single umbrella. Statistically using those followup questions I mentioned real split would be single men divided into a group that is single and not interested in anything currently, vs single men who are actively seeking/trying to get or going on dates. Then within the group of men who are single and actively seeking you would have men who ar… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 03:00 PM |
| 1 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.they are still a small minority of men And how do you know that for sure? If only a study that asked men if they were single asked them a followup question to be able to break them down into sub groups. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 02:51 PM |
| -5 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.You’re missing my point, at no point did I say those are the majority of men. What I said was the pew study makes no differentiation between any of those groups. Knowing the split would be good information beyond just knowing that a lot of guys are single. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 02:44 PM |
| -3 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.Yes I’m well aware that it is, but I think it makes more sense than to assume that more than half of adult men under 30 are completely avoiding relationships. Personally I think that survey could have benefited from having a few additional qualifying questions such as. “If you are single are you actively seeking?”, “do you think having a romantic partner would improve your life overall”, “are you dating to find hookups, a relationship, or marriage”. Stuff like that would really help us break dow… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 02:12 PM |
| -10 | Dating apps are only useful for the top 5% of men looking to hookup with average looking women or vice versa. The apps are designed to fail for those looking for relationships.I think you may be misinterpreting the data. That pew research study you linked in another comment defines single as “single, meaning they are not married, living with a partner or in a committed romantic relationship.”. So yes over 60% of young men are single right now but that’s not the same thing as not trying to find a partner. A man who’s actively trying to meet women and put themselves out there, but is struggling to do so still counts as single even if they’re getting dates but just never… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/11/24 01:51 PM |
| – | What are your thoughts on the rich man, poor woman dynamic?Regardless of if a man cares about the income levels of the girl he’s dating, in order to date someone they need to interact first. Many social circles are of the same class so a rich/educated guy is more likely to meet and date rich/educated women in their social circle regardless of if they care about the woman’s job/income. Personally while I don’t care too much how much she makes, I do care that she has a job and can support herself to a degree. Working a service job is totally different tha… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/11/24 03:57 AM |
| 2 | A Lot of the Things Making Men Miserable are things Men Could FixI think you’re operating on a flawed premise, your “evidence” that there’s two unhappy/cheating couples for every happy couple being from old novels, historical records, or biographies is classic confirmation bias. Novels are fiction they intentionally tell more interesting stories than real life often by introducing tension and drama that is not the norm. A book about a normal couple with a stable domestic situation wouldn’t sell well. For history books/biographies those are going to be focusin… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/24 11:39 PM |
| 1 | Are There Really Men Who Make Over 175K A Year And Have Difficulty Finding A Mate?Agreed, unless you’re actively flexing the wealth with stuff like your clothes and car people can’t really tell. And if you do flex it then you’re stuck competing with the guys who are willing to take on debt or spend all their money on it. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/24 08:52 PM |
| 2 | Q4M: Given the "ideal" wife/girlfriend/partner, do you genuinely *enjoy* providing?Yes a major factor in my career decisions the past few years has been to try and place myself into a income bracket where if a woman wanted the option of not working and focusing on kids/the household they would have that option. Not because I would demand that from them but because I understand how important having that as an option is. As far as your husbands friend is concerned I understand where he’s coming from completely. My career field often requires me to be pretty mean and very hard on… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/10/24 07:29 PM |
| 1 | Approaching women in a limited pool of your social circle poisons this pool for youSure if you just asked them without getting a vibe from a girl she was interested I could see that being an issue. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/10/24 05:53 PM |
| 5 | Approaching women in a limited pool of your social circle poisons this pool for youYeah if you approach more than one in rapid succession the women of the group will view you with suspicion that’s not new nor is it surprising. If you thought you had a good vibe with one girl and it didn’t work it probably won’t be an issue so long as you don’t push it or immediately jump to another girl. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/10/24 05:51 PM |
| 1 | "Most men are bad/selfish in bed"Speaking personally I started getting “good” once I had a long term gf in college and we got comfortable enough with each other to give effective feedback to each other without worrying about hurt feelings. Understanding what your partner likes and being physically fit enough to pull it off as the majority of the work. Also understanding that what you see in porn is designed to look good for the camera and not be enjoyed by the people doing it goes a long way as well. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/10/24 08:47 PM |
| – | Why aren't males attending singles events anymore?I actually went to one once on a whim and the massive imbalance in the gender ratio doesn’t really improve your chances. Your just competing with other men that aren’t even there, it didn’t cost me any money so I’m not too broken up over it but I don’t have any interest in trying speed dating again after than. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/09/24 07:12 PM |
| 1 | Single men of PPD, would you be down to try an arranged relationship with the purpose of marriage?Yeah I’d be open to someone who knows me well and who’s judgement I trust, setting me up with someone who they think would be a good fit that’s also open to it. However I don’t think the “move in with them for a while” is a good idea right off the bat, you gotta get to know each other and establish a degree of mutual understanding/trust before trying something like that. Unfortunately I don’t have those kinds of opportunities available in my social circle/family. There’s a strange disparity of t… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/08/24 06:19 PM |
| 1 | Men might as well cold approach women in person given how the dating app market skews so heavily against their favor.Yeah like 2, that’s not a good ratio | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/08/24 03:48 PM |
| 1 | Men might as well cold approach women in person given how the dating app market skews so heavily against their favor.Yeah but my skill at fumbling the bag makes my dog damn near irrelevant to my success levels. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/08/24 03:29 PM |
| 6 | Men might as well cold approach women in person given how the dating app market skews so heavily against their favor.Speaking from personal experience OP every actual relationship I’ve had has been from meeting women in person and not on the apps, including stuff like cold approaching at the bar or talking to women who want to pet my dog. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/08/24 04:52 PM |
| 1 | How do you feel about all the men chatting with AI?What do you mean? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/08/24 12:31 AM |
| 3 | How do you feel about all the men chatting with AI?I definitely think it’s weird, but I do feel somewhat sympathetic to people that are incredibly lonely and isolated to the point that seems like an option. However it seems like sooner or later it’ll turn into a sort of nightmare scenario to monetize friendships. Like you spend years “getting to know” your lil robot friend and then all the sudden the company says you gotta pay $10/month to keep talking to them, or god forbid they use the highly detailed personal information they have to produce … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/08/24 02:00 PM |
| 1 | Old generations had some solid advice. Whenever I went out on a date, my mom cautioned me nver to take any gift other than candies, cheap chocolates, or maybe a rose or two, coz it woyld give men "ideas"I don’t think your mom was wrong, my sister and other women I know are apprehensive about letting a man pay for too much on the first date because they don’t want the man to think he’s owed something. If you don’t mind me asking OP what culture are you from? I’m always curious about how different cultures/nationalities can influence the perspectives people have here. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/07/24 01:56 PM |
| 8 | Old generations had some solid advice. Whenever I went out on a date, my mom cautioned me nver to take any gift other than candies, cheap chocolates, or maybe a rose or two, coz it woyld give men "ideas"I think they mean they don’t want the guy to think she’s down to go home on night one. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/07/24 01:08 PM |
| – | Old generations had some solid advice. Whenever I went out on a date, my mom cautioned me nver to take any gift other than candies, cheap chocolates, or maybe a rose or two, coz it woyld give men "ideas"I don’t think your mom was wrong, my sister and other women I know are apprehensive about letting a man pay for too much on the first date because they don’t want the man to think he’s owed something. If you don’t mind me asking OP what culture are you from? I’m always curious about how different cultures/nationalities can influence the perspectives people have here. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/07/24 01:08 PM |
| 15 | The best move a single man can make is work on being happy alone.I understand what you’re saying objectively, like yeah if someone stops caring about something that bothers them they won’t be bothered by it anymore. But if someone truly wants to have a family as a big goal in their life, it’s not like they can simply stop caring about lacking something they desire and just be happy. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/07/24 07:24 PM |
| 5 | Women are hypocritical for rejecting coffee datesPersonally I’m willing to go for a bigger first date like a nice dinner or local concert if it’s someone I initially met in person, since i already have a rough idea of their behavior in person, their conversational skills, and more or less have an idea that we will have fun spending time together. However if it’s off the apps then yeah I’ll try for something like coffee for the first date since frankly I’ve been catfished enough times to know better than to commit to something that will take mo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/07/24 11:16 PM |
| 1 | Who has an easier time dating? Introverted males or introverted women? Why?By easier do you mean the difficulty in getting dates/attention or do you mean an easy experience during the dating process with the dates going smoothly? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/07/24 01:26 PM |
| 1 | The current rhetoric is that men and women have unrealistic expectations for potential partners. What unorthodox or off-label quirks or unconventional features do you find attractive?More like Amber Rose Revah but yeah, I like the look of someone who’s a professional but ready to let their hair down if that makes sense | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/07/24 04:13 PM |
| 2 | The current rhetoric is that men and women have unrealistic expectations for potential partners. What unorthodox or off-label quirks or unconventional features do you find attractive?Personally I kind of like it when a girl has dark bags under here eyes, i find it cute. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/07/24 03:50 PM |
| 2 | Skill in dating, as a man, is similar to professional sports.What do you mean by legal changes? I don’t think you can legislate your way into a gf. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/07/24 03:42 PM |
| 3 | Have you experienced mental illness in your dating life?You can quote the brochure all you want but you’re not a shrink. It’s one thing to say you think a guy has issues, but trying claim you know for sure his actual IQ range and exactly what condition he suffers from isn’t something you can eyeball. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/07/24 11:20 PM |
| 4 | Have you experienced mental illness in your dating life?We got a real expert on our hands here, they even quoted Wikipedia in another comment so you know their diagnosis is legit. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/07/24 10:03 PM |
| 1 | Have you experienced mental illness in your dating life?It might be different depending what part of the world you’re from and your age demographic but I’ve definitely noticed a trend of women in the age range I date (a few years above and below my own age mid 20s to early 30s), being very open about if they are mentally ill, in therapy, or on medication. How much of it is legitimate, self diagnosed, or just made up for clout I couldn’t tell you. But at least it makes it easy to avoid someone who could be dangerous or just bring a lot of misery into … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/07/24 09:57 PM |
| 1 | Have you experienced mental illness in your dating life?Huh, never had someone just come out and say something racist like that unironically, that’s new. Idk how to appropriately respond to you here bud. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/07/24 09:48 PM |
| 7 | Have you experienced mental illness in your dating life?How are you able to so confidently estimate his iq? Saying he was at a below average but fairly normal level to now being borderline disabled. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/07/24 09:43 PM |
| 6 | I think some people don’t realize they don’t love their partner until they end the relationship and experience somebody they truly desireI mean yeah many people are only able to interpret experiences through their own frame of reference so if they had a mid relationship but it was the best they ever had at the time they would think it’s the ideal. Till they meet someone else later on who provides more, and that recontextualizes their past experiences. That’s just how growing as a person and building off interactions between past and new experiences works. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/07/24 12:50 PM |
| 9 | Women's standards aren't high the average man has nothing of value to offer.Well now you’re just being mean about it. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/07/24 01:10 AM |
| 3 | Women's standards aren't high the average man has nothing of value to offer.From what I can tell it at least seems like a lot of women just aren’t really that interested in dating, like an average relationship isn’t better than being single to them, and to your point a lot of what they would want a “man around the house for” can be handled by occasionally hiring a professional handyman or plumber or whatever who will fix the problem and then leave. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/07/24 01:05 AM |
| 3 | I think if attractive women had to go through the online app dating experience of an Average looking guy (5-6/10) working a normal middle class job, this would make both a great social experiment & reality show.I doubt the experience helped but from what I’ve read about her she had a lot of other issues both before and after that experience. It sounds like she was a well meaning person who lived a troubled life. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/07/24 10:40 PM |
| 9 | I think if attractive women had to go through the online app dating experience of an Average looking guy (5-6/10) working a normal middle class job, this would make both a great social experiment & reality show.I mean there was a famous case where a woman went undercover as a man a wrote a book about it, this was about 2 decades ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_Vincent | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/07/24 04:59 PM |
| 1 | Q4M: Ever feel insulted by the caliber of women who show interest in you?Yeah. I’m not proud of it or anything, but it definitely doesn’t feel great when you have a dry spell where there’s nothing beyond the occasional verbal snub when trying to put yourself out there. Only to realize someone who looks like they have their own TLC show is making eyes at ya from across the bar, and it’s the first interest you’ve been shown in months. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/06/24 09:24 AM |
| 4 | What Does It Boil Down To?If you’re asking why conversations like this theoretically happen so often, it’s because one person is trying to argue with statistics and averages against another person’s personal lived experience. Telling someone not to worry because 75% of the world does X, doesn’t mean jack shit if they’re one of the few poor chumps stuck with Y. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/06/24 02:16 PM |
| 12 | Women, what percentage of you would "pursue your own pleasure" while your country collapsed (due to your refusal to give up some of your own time / effort to do something that would stop the collapse)?See this is exactly the kind of thing I’m referring to. Instead of attempting to sincerely communicate you’re actively insulting the intelligence and emotional maturity of the other party, of course you’re going to get snark and rants in return when you’re coming in swinging like that. Do you talk to people like this with your colleagues at work, when you have a disagreement with your wife, or when you’re out having a drink with your friends? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/06/24 05:11 PM |
| 24 | Women, what percentage of you would "pursue your own pleasure" while your country collapsed (due to your refusal to give up some of your own time / effort to do something that would stop the collapse)?I wouldn’t be surprised if that was intentional on their part. Idk how OP thinks they’re going to have a meaningful discussion about this issue when they’re asking the question the way they are. Declining birth rates and rising singleness is a real issue with serious societal impacts that are starting to show in some of the more grossly affected countries, but coming out the door swinging with a loaded and accusatory dialogue isn’t going to get them a sincere answers to their questions. It’s alm… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/06/24 03:42 PM |
| 4 | Why are men like this?I had something similar happen when I was in college I thought someone was trying to grab my wallet and I turned around ready to fight only to see this petite girl instead, who had grabbed my butt to get my attention. Was definitely a weird experience especially since I was expecting to see some guy I’d have to punch/shove. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/05/24 03:29 PM |
| 1 | Why are men like this?Some people are creeps/assholes, it’s sucks but that’s just how people are. Similar things have happened to female friends of mine as well. From what my friends, and women online seem to be saying about the issue it looks like it’s kind of getting worse. Not necessarily because more men are creepy, but because when a woman complains about creepy/pushy guys and says she wants to be left alone, the only guys who listen are the not creepy/pushy ones. Meaning now a greater portion of the ones still … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/05/24 03:23 PM |
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