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SMV in contrasts?

quicklogaccount · 2016-06-27T17:34:08+00:00

Does engaging in activities that don't quite fit your projected image and yet have high status offer a bigger increase in the SMV than they would do if...

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June 27, 2016

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Title	SMV in contrasts?
Author	quicklogaccount
Upvotes	0
Comments	4
Date	June 27, 2016 5:34 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/asktrp/comments/4q4kqk/smv_in_contrasts/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/askTRP/smv-in-contrasts.107518 https://theredarchive.com/post/107518

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[–]fuzzyface1980 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago* (3 children) | Copy Link

I put Infinity figures together and paint them poorly. Even got little buildings made out of MDF to set those mother fuckers up. I play video games. I write fiction. And a couple of nights ago, I fucked the shit out of wife's face. At 2 in the morning. On a work day. Because my throbbing erection wouldn't go away due to all the T from weight lifting!

I got a bad ass beard that girls want to touch. Coworker beta men call me Taliban or Vlad the Impaler. Female coworkers agree with the Vlad part. And they got to touch my fucking arms every time they walk by. It's actually a joke with a few Army coworkers. Should I increase my SMV over this?!

Stop worrying about what other's think of your SMV. Half the value is genuinely not caring. Validation comes from within. Own your hobbies. Doesn't mean you got to put some fucking Warhammer figures up in your damn office or where a For The Emperah t-shirt. Its about SELF-AWARENESS.

[–]quicklogaccount[S] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

[–]fuzzyface1980 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Stop worrying about what other's think of your SMV.

Your "projected image" is a rationalization of external validation. You care far too much about how other's perceive you. If you are fed up with the ode to ignorance, you'd best see clearly how you exude it.

BY BEING MORE SELF-AWARE.

You are asking if one should fit a mold due to other expectations. You are just doing it in a way that makes you feel smart.

Do displays of contrasting and yet high status characteristics increase the value of this characteristics, or decrease it because of the lack of coherence and presumed lack of authenticity?

Stop being full of yourself. Fucking own it if you like it. To hell with a lack of someone's perceived coherency or presumed authenticity.

But you can't. The moment someone like me shows up and owns it, you are fed up with that sort of shit. Be more intelligent. Don't feel you are.

[–]quicklogaccount[S] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

"Owning it" is today's fancy term for writing a few paragraphs of self admiration and managing yet again not to address a question?
I sincerely hoped you wouldn't bring up external validation. You see, I'm a selfish man, I restricted myself from pointing out your blatant embellishment for a stranger online because there are a couple points in your narrative that fit my observations, but by doing that it seems that I denied you something you need far more than I need to discuss what I have observed. I apologize. Please, allow me to make up for that.

I should start with your first answer. What you did was engaging in a nauseating self engorgement wandering in which I insisted to see a few of the contrasting traits I was asking about to prevent me from giving up for starters.
Most of the deeds you named are particularly unimpressive, but the one about your wife deserves being mentioned apart since besides being cringe worthy, by preceding it with "a couple nights ago" you bended it to the pathetic. While you should, at this moment, focus on self awareness for some obvious reasons, you should be aware of your surroundings as well.
Let's just remember here, that if you need to affirm you are the king, you are not the king.

Your "projected image" is a rationalization of external validation. You care far too much about how other's perceive you. If you are fed up with the ode to ignorance, you'd best see clearly how you exude it.

You got this wrong in the very first word. If you care to leave your bias aside for a minute and read it again you will see I'm asking whether the reader's observations either fit or disprove my own, or at the very least raise one's awareness to notice that.
What you did there was projecting yourself in a very overt fashion. It was easy to spot because you went way out of the topic to fit "external validation" in your answer. It seems you have been giving the topic a lot of though lately, which is good, but the the self awareness bit in capitals, the one you like to repeat, should work more of a reminder to yourself.
Since it seems you either have or developed issues in introspecting, a way to be more aware of your weaknesses is observing which traits most often bother you in others. You will project them all around. While introspecting would prevent you from giving yourself away, in some moments, such as in this one, showing off you lame hand doesn't cause a lot of damage. Take the opportunity to make yourself more SELF AWARE, will you?

Stop being full of yourself. Fucking own it if you like it. To hell with a lack of someone's perceived coherency or presumed authenticity.

It's good that you don't hide your hobby but if this something you use to add value to yourself in your greeting card or in the first sentence of a bragging text, people uninterested in it ought to presume you are an uninteresting person yourself.
You'll forgive me if I give up on going back to my original point and abide from pointing out the stupidity in the "To the hell" bit. I assume that if you can't do that by yourself by now, you're hopeless.

But you can't. The moment someone like me shows up and owns it, you are fed up with that sort of shit. Be more intelligent. Don't feel you are.

I used to find it insulting to my intelligence having people telling me platitudes as if I did not know them, but I grew to understand most of them are doing their very best by doing that. Personally these days I think it has a special bonus if they say "my father / mother / grandparent always said".
I also used to be bothered by people taking opportunities to brag when I gave them the voice and attention, but as you have noticed, these days most men are insecure and need the validation, so I also grew used to it.
What truly bothered me there was your refusal to address the fucking point explicitly and yet taking pride on being an illustration of these little contrasts. The "I am what I am, look at me, validate me" I could take but the little regard for the very underlying mechanism I asked about and that might cause some admiration towards you bothers me because your dedication towards bragging and self righteousness is preventing me from using your brainpower and experience to better understand something I'm curious about. I said I'm selfish.