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Re:Young women fall out of love with dating apps by nvy on Sunday May 26, 2024 @03:35PM (#40484733)
The risk-reward calculation for women is dramatically different than for men.

For men,

risk: not get laid, deal with rejection. reward: get laid, possibly meet soul mate

For women,

risk: person you matched with rapes and murders you. reward: get laid, possibly meet soul mate

And before anyone tries to rebut this with the tired argument of "sometimes women commit murder" yeah that's true but exceedingly rare. The overwhelming number of violent crimes are committed by men.

Re:Young women fall out of love with dating apps by silverquiet on Sunday May 26, 2024 @03:38PM (#40484749)
Funny (not really) - you are obviously correct about the statistics, but the only person I know who was murdered by a partner was a man.
Re:Young women fall out of love with dating apps by dotancohen on Sunday May 26, 2024 @03:46PM (#40484799)
Went is it considered socially acceptable to point out the differences between men and women when the men are portrayed in a more negative fashion, but not when the women are portrayed in a more negative fashion? I see this as well with attributing certain cultural behaviors to certain races - a one-way street. Why?
Re:Young women fall out of love with dating apps by nvy on Sunday May 26, 2024 @11:52PM (#40487430)
>but not when the women are portrayed in a more negative fashion?

Could it be because for centuries we ran the world and told women they were inferior, didn't let them vote, didn't let them drive, didn't let them have financial autonomy, etc.?

Could it be that, generally, men have things pretty good today and in many ways women still have not caught up?

Could it be that you need to tread a pretty fine line if you want to make humor by poking fun at half the population who were systematically oppressed for the last I-don't-know-how-many years?

One wonders.

Re:Young women fall out of love with dating apps by dotancohen on Monday May 27, 2024 @05:47PM (#40495070)
That is the most ridiculous reason I've ever heard. Let me rephrase your reason, substituting another oppressed group.

The Jews have been systematically oppressed for millennia. Now the single Jewish state is currently fighting against at least six overtly hostile enemies who have sworn genocide against the Jews. They recently infiltrated the Jewish state, burning babies to death, raping women, wing it entire families, I could describe horrors you would not believe if they didn't film it themselves. There are still over one hundred hostages in tunnels, including elderly people and including babies. There are still tens of thousands of people displaced. Is world attention turned to the horrors that the Jewish state is facing? No. World attention is turned to slandering the Jewish state with lies, directly accusing us of the very horrors committed against us. Nobody cares that we were oppressed for millennia.

So no, that line of reasoning is wrong. You can not try to excuse double standards with historical baggage for some groups but not for others.

Re:Young women fall out of love with dating apps by nvy on Monday May 27, 2024 @10:14PM (#40496741)
>Nobody cares that we were oppressed for millennia.

Lots of people care, but both sides of the Israel-Palestine situation have done some pretty reprehensible shit going back decades.

>So no, that line of reasoning is wrong. You can not try to excuse double standards with historical baggage for some groups but not for others.

This is irrelevant to dating apps and I'm not interested in discussing this further with you.