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"Third, I’ve called the jerk ‘he’, for reasons you might guess. But then it seems too gendered to call the sweetheart ‘she’, so I’ve made the sweetheart a ‘he’

"Third, I’ve called the jerk ‘he’, for reasons you might guess. But then it seems too gendered to call the sweetheart ‘she’, so I’ve made the sweetheart a ‘he’ too." Absolutely hilarious. I guess one point he's making is that men have a problem with noncompliance, but seems to have forgotten the upside entirely

Boothroid 9y ago
Plenty of women that take liberties also. I've always tried to be nothing than pleasant. Where does it get you?
yakult 9y ago
I think the reason is that if he had used 'she', there would have been a shitstorm. If you do a word-replace of all instances of 'he' with 'she' and 'his' with 'her', it becomes an entirely different article.
- adrianratnapala 9y ago
  Maybe, but actually a masculine avatar is fine here. The whole thing would have worked just as well if, instead of "sweetheart", he'd used the term "nice-guy" as in the claim "nice-guys finish last."
  - Noos 9y ago
    feminists have totally discredited nice guy though, turning it into a passive-aggressive hanger on who hopes to get rewarded with sex from being nice.
    - adrianratnapala 9y ago
      Do you mean that interpretation of "nice guy" an actual term of modern feminist jargon? I hadn't known that. Or do you mean that it is a human eternal, the instinctive reaction of womens' inner bullshit detectors?
      - pja 9y ago
        See the niceguys reddit https://reddit.com/r/niceguys https://reddit.com/r/niceguys for the full flowering of this interpretation of the "nice guy" trope. The guy who thinks that "being nice" to women is what gets them relationships + sex & that they're being wronged when a women rejects them even after they've "been nice" is definitely a thing.
    - dragonwriter 9y ago
      I've seen that image of “nice guy” far more from MRA, PUA, and other anti-democratic than from feminists, despite having a lot more interaction with the latter.
      - dragonwriter 9y ago
        Missed the edit window, but “anti-democratic” should be “anti-feminist”. Stupid “smart” auto-correct on the phone keyboard...

Boothroid 9y ago

Plenty of women that take liberties also. I've always tried to be nothing than pleasant. Where does it get you?

yakult 9y ago

I think the reason is that if he had used 'she', there would have been a shitstorm. If you do a word-replace of all instances of 'he' with 'she' and 'his' with 'her', it becomes an entirely different article.

adrianratnapala 9y ago
Maybe, but actually a masculine avatar is fine here. The whole thing would have worked just as well if, instead of "sweetheart", he'd used the term "nice-guy" as in the claim "nice-guys finish last."
- Noos 9y ago
  feminists have totally discredited nice guy though, turning it into a passive-aggressive hanger on who hopes to get rewarded with sex from being nice.
  - adrianratnapala 9y ago
    Do you mean that interpretation of "nice guy" an actual term of modern feminist jargon? I hadn't known that. Or do you mean that it is a human eternal, the instinctive reaction of womens' inner bullshit detectors?
    - pja 9y ago
      See the niceguys reddit https://reddit.com/r/niceguys https://reddit.com/r/niceguys for the full flowering of this interpretation of the "nice guy" trope. The guy who thinks that "being nice" to women is what gets them relationships + sex & that they're being wronged when a women rejects them even after they've "been nice" is definitely a thing.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    I've seen that image of “nice guy” far more from MRA, PUA, and other anti-democratic than from feminists, despite having a lot more interaction with the latter.
    - dragonwriter 9y ago
      Missed the edit window, but “anti-democratic” should be “anti-feminist”. Stupid “smart” auto-correct on the phone keyboard...