(04-18-2016 10:14 PM)SirTimothy Wrote: Have you ever been so beta......that you asked for help getting INTO the friendzone?
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Part of me is laughing at the advice in this video, and part of me is a little mad that people are dumb enough to buy it.
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(04-18-2016 10:14 PM)SirTimothy Wrote: Have you ever been so beta......that you asked for help getting INTO the friendzone?On the fence about that one; from what I can tell the guy wasn't telling guys to get into the friendzone so they can get laid. He was just talking about making platonic friends with women.
(04-05-2016 07:18 PM)Scoundrel Wrote: Saw this being shared on Facebook. Posted by a young hipster-looking bar manager....
Quote:This is a longer post, so bear with me...
Today I had to explain to a 60 year old man why he was banned from the pub.
In January he made several sexist remarks about the female staff that were working. He told them to their faces that that he liked looking at their tits while they washed dishes, and their asses while they were pouring drinks. He was told to leave and not come back. He came back last month, and was told we wouldn't serve him. He came back yet again today, and when told he wouldn't be served demanded to talk to a manger.
I sat with him for a few minutes as he explained that what he said would have been okay 20 years ago, and that it was just some off colour remarks. He told me he had apologized, and that he guessed my servers were too sensitive. He then told me that if what he said was a problem, then I should tell them not to wear low cut shirts, and that I should face the dish washing sink away from customers. But since he apologized, he should be allowed to drink in my establishment because he he lives in the neighborhood and will bring in business.
I told him flatly that wasn't happening, and that what he said to those ladies was incredibly offensive. The simple fact that he couldn't understand that just because they were were working didn't mean they deserve his disrespectful language. That these ladies were part of my family, and were human beings that deserved respect. They aren't objects, and they certainly shouldn't have to wear different clothes because he can't be bothered with showing them any decency or respect. "But we're men and they're females. Is cleavage just not a thing anymore?"
I told him yeah buddy, it's not, and I won't be changing my mind about having him served. He threatened bad publicity, I told him I didn't care, and he left.
I work in the service industry, and we get the sheer joy and pleasure of meeting and talking to so many great people in our city. I've met some of my best friends here behind the bar. I live for it man. Connecting people who haven't met, making sure people can relax from a shitty day, or celebrate a great one, or just to simply enjoy a few beers with friends. I've seen wedding proposals, birthday parties, political discussions, deep philosophical debates, neighborhood organization, the absolute works. The best of humanity coming together and bonding. That's my JAM. It's one of the biggest reasons I get out of bed in the morning to come in to work day after day.
As absolutely insanely fun as that is, the dark side of this business is we run into some pretty horrible goblin people. Folks who think that just because we're serving, we don't deserve any basic decency or respect. I've been snapped at, mocked, threatened, and insulted about not having a real job. Anybody in this line of work gets used to a degree of it and develops a thicker skin. Here's the thing though, women in this field get infinitely more disgustingly treated. The sheer number of times they get groped, or harassed, or treated like objects would blow your mind. The worst of it is how normal their harassers think their behavior is. Every single lady in here handles it with grace and aplomb, and I applaud them for it. I've had their backs as we've bounced people out for that trash, but countless times they just deal with it before it even gets to me.
Sometimes the dudes get so worked up that they demand to see a manager, and I get called in to speak with them. Every single fucking time they attempt to appeal to me solely because I'm a man. They try to weasel in with me about how the women are asking for it. That women shouldn't dress that way if they don't want to be stared at. They attempt to explain it away as just "dudes being dudes." It's expected for men to stare at women's breasts and make jokes about how much they want to fuck them. Wink Wink. Of course you'll understand they think, because you also have a dick. What terrifies and enrages me is how every one of them thinks that this is normal behavior, but also that other men will agree with them.
Men, we often don't see the level of filth that our friends, sisters, and mothers go through every day. We hope to surround ourselves with people who would never treat a woman like that. We live in a safe little bubble. But the reality of this thing? It's an insidious disease that's happening every single day, several times a day and it turns my fucking stomach.
So why am I writing this? I want to acknowledge the struggle of every single woman who will read this. You deserve our respect and to be treated with decency. I want to stand up and say, I'm fucking sick of this. To every dude out there, we need to fucking combat this disease like its the god damned plague that it is. If one of your friends says something shitty about a woman, tell him to shut his fucking mouth. Don't just laugh it off or ignore it. We need to listen when our sisters talk about this, and not just blame it on some bad apples. Not just say "not all dudes do that" or "well no one I know would ever do that." Nah man. This is an endemic cultural problem. If we want to start taking our status as gentlemen seriously we need to do more than just avoiding being a sexist prick ourselves. We need to open our eyes and fight it everywhere we see it, because the only way this thing gets better is to start calling it out for what it is.
Edit: Sorry for so many edits. I keep finding typos. Writing in anger isn't so conducive to well typed responses.
Well this guy's gentleman status is firmly established!
P.S. Cleavage is no longer a thing? Really?
EDIT: A news story about the guy who wrote the post:
http://fox59.com/2016/04/04/indianapolis...oes-viral/
(04-16-2016 01:27 AM)BallsDeep Wrote: The Apprentice shows were a great competition of groups of highly accomplished and/or highly credentialed candidates competing amongst one another.
Because it was on primetime TV, every season had to include 1 or 2 minority tokens who for the most part failed to compete with the rest and were bounced early.
Instead of being grateful for the unearned platform that Trump bestowed upon them, they say asinine shit like this:
Quote:"Trump is passionately and strategically reigniting a dirty and divisive culture soaked in a history of prejudice, fear and hate. It is unpatriotic, anti-American, self-serving, regressive and downright lazy," former contestant Marshawn Evans Daniels said.
So he is somehow reigniting a culture that is soaked in history while being Anti-American at the same time. This continues to show that unmerited rewards in all walks of life never pan out.
(04-19-2016 07:55 AM)Cobra Wrote: Riddle me this though. Maybe the psychology learned members can shed light on this. How in all hell do men convince themselves that even though a beautiful woman is in their view, they will not check out her beauty, which frankly, includes tits and asses?
Quote:This guy just seems so deep into an alternate belief. While I can't say I'm surprised, I would just like to know how this happens and if there's a way to even reverse it for most guys. I mean, white knightery to me is a rather recent historial phenomenon.Don't think it's honestly as "recent" as is made out to be; it's been around in some form or another throughout history. Even looking back on cartoons I watched as a kid which were released in the 1950s or before (like Popeye the Sailor) I'm in awe of just how white-knightey it really was:
(04-19-2016 07:55 AM)Cobra Wrote: It's been a while since a post had me as sick as this one did.
I can't be the only forum member that will gladly fly there just to stare at tits and asses openly and then be charged with "visual assault" by a bartender only to talk to him later and listen to his holier than thou remarks.
Riddle me this though. Maybe the psychology learned members can shed light on this. How in all hell do men convince themselves that even though a beautiful woman is in their view, they will not check out her beauty, which frankly, includes tits and asses?
This guy just seems so deep into an alternate belief. While I can't say I'm surprised, I would just like to know how this happens and if there's a way to even reverse it for most guys. I mean, white knightery to me is a rather recent historial phenomenon.
(04-19-2016 07:55 AM)Cobra Wrote: It's been a while since a post had me as sick as this one did.
I can't be the only forum member that will gladly fly there just to stare at tits and asses openly and then be charged with "visual assault" by a bartender only to talk to him later and listen to his holier than thou remarks.
Riddle me this though. Maybe the psychology learned members can shed light on this. How in all hell do men convince themselves that even though a beautiful woman is in their view, they will not check out her beauty, which frankly, includes tits and asses?
This guy just seems so deep into an alternate belief. While I can't say I'm surprised, I would just like to know how this happens and if there's a way to even reverse it for most guys. I mean, white knightery to me is a rather recent historical phenomenon.
(04-19-2016 12:06 PM)Anabasis to Desta Wrote:I agree with that, unfortunately in their case it's usually just holier-than-thou posturing and has little or nothing to do with the actual underlying principles of self denial you described above. A guy like a Trappist monk or a Hindu ascetic who actually lives it in every area of life is one thing...(04-19-2016 07:55 AM)Cobra Wrote: It's been a while since a post had me as sick as this one did.
I can't be the only forum member that will gladly fly there just to stare at tits and asses openly and then be charged with "visual assault" by a bartender only to talk to him later and listen to his holier than thou remarks.
Riddle me this though. Maybe the psychology learned members can shed light on this. How in all hell do men convince themselves that even though a beautiful woman is in their view, they will not check out her beauty, which frankly, includes tits and asses?
This guy just seems so deep into an alternate belief. While I can't say I'm surprised, I would just like to know how this happens and if there's a way to even reverse it for most guys. I mean, white knightery to me is a rather recent historical phenomenon.
I think it's got a lot to do with self-deprivation & the competitive male spirit.
Every man craves it deep down. On one hand it's a form of testing our own will-power, discipline and see how far we can go denying our worldly wants because oddly ... it feels really good. It's the mentality behind Self-flagellation common among Catholics, 6 hour long meditation sessions and sleeping upright among Buddhists, fasting, lifting weights, running Marathons , Military training and even fraternity hazing.
^ Only men are expected to do any of the above. Depriving yourself of instant gratification physically & mentally is considered manly which is why any sort of right-of-passage from boy to man involves some sort of competition on who can self-deprive the most without breaking. Every culture and religion does this.
Since these betas' culture & religion is social justice/destructive-liberalism... all the "not looking at a woman's ass/tits" or "I'll let her fuck another man, it's her body" is their way to fulfill that male desire to self-deprave and beat other men at it.
In their minds ... it's a competition and they are winning.
(04-24-2016 11:12 PM)TrifeLife Wrote: The mangina epidemic continues to spiral out of control. Went out to dinner tonight. Pretty compact place, tables right next to each other. Woman and a 'man' at table next to us, clearly a couple. Waiter comes over and this shrill chick proceeds to order everything for both of them. Drinks, apps, food. Literally: "he'll have..." Just disgraceful.
(04-25-2016 12:26 PM)EDantes Wrote: I feel like some conservative or evangelical Christianity crosses over into the "white knight" territory.
In that they overemphasize virtues like chastity and modesty for men, but under-emphasize masculine virtues like courage and self-respect, along with overly-idealistic, Disney movie like views on marriage and relationships being a "blessing from god" and whatnot, while emphasizing anything perceived as "naughty" creating a boring Hallmark card idea of relationships with all of the actual "sex appeal" stripped out.
(05-14-2016 01:23 AM)weambulance Wrote: That guy reads more like a subtle troll to me. "...as I grew and journeyed..."? Haha, what bullshit.
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