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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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1	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting Unfortunately, not everyone gets to marry the prom queen.	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 10:42 PM
5	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting "Women are told men should and will love them no matter what they do or look like (and that any guy who doesn't is an ass)." No one has ever told me anything like that either. Never for a second of my life have I believed this is the case. Doesn't seem common for my friends either.	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 10:41 PM
3	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting Yes, also 30 Rock had strong male characters... all the cop shows	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 10:36 PM
0	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting Your understanding of women is quite bizarre.	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 10:35 PM
-1	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting So you admit that the guy is trying to get something out of being "nice"? And you don't see how that's different from genuine kindness? You seem hell-bent on refusing to understand me.	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 10:34 PM
0	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting Now who's straw-manning?	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 10:30 PM
2	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting Well I haven't seen any of those shows, I have to confess. Why only focus on sitcoms though? The box office is filled with heroic male protagonists.	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 08:34 PM
0	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting I agree that confidence, independence, and healthy personal boundaries are attractive to most people, men and women. It's also true that being too friendly or involved right off the bat, offering unrequested help or trying to "bribe" the other person into some interaction are bad strategies because they come off as insincere or forced. If that is what you are defining as "nice," then I agree it that it's a bad strategy. But that's not legitimately nice IMO.	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 08:32 PM
2	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting Well, to be fair, a lot of women don't like those types. I never did. I have a lot of friends who were always turned off by that stuff too. But I did have other girl friends that were into that whole thing. Different types. I actually think those under-dog movies are the most harmful ones of all. I think they create entitlement -- that people just have to be patient and they will get everything they want.	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 08:25 PM
4	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting The reasoning I'm critiquing is this one: "I tried being nice and I got rejected. Therefore, being nice is bad advice!" It's very possible that being nice is still good advice, but is not, on its own, sufficient to ensure the desired outcome. "You don't deserve to be dated just because you are doing something to try to be attractive." -- but that's TRUE, right? To use your example, if I put on makeup and some guy turns me down, is it acceptable for me to infer that men don't like makeup or prett…	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 08:19 PM
4	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting Well, sitcoms are almost by definition domestic comedies, so they're unlikely to include archetypes of traditional masculine heroes. The only show I have seen out of the ones you've listed is Modern Family, and I don't agree at all that Jay is constantly berated; he is the most capable and coolest character on the show. He runs a successful business and is a good stepfather to Manny. Gloria teases him occasionally but she loves him, and Jay teases her back all the time. Phil is constantly trying…	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 08:11 PM
6	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting "They teach you that anything like competition, aggression, and other traits are to be avoided and nobody likes them." I'm not trying to be dismissive, I just sincerely don't understand this claim. When I was in high school, competitive sports were huge. Everyone went to the football games, the hockey games, the basketball games. The popular guys were athletes; some of them could be aggressive and violent people. No one shamed them for being competitive and aggressive. Instead, they got to do wh…	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 08:05 PM
9	The Blue Pill & Gaslighting No, I don't agree with that article at all. I have never heard anyone say anything like "Masculinity is not attractive and girls don’t like it." Can you list any examples of movies or TV shows that encapsulate an "anti-masculine" message? How are you defining masculinity in this context? I don't know what you mean by "strange-bedfellow relationship between traditional conservatives and feminists" (maybe you could articulate further?) but the only thing I can think of that they might have in comm…	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/03/14 06:39 PM