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Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by spacechild1 on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:59AM (#44862849)
Which countries have you been to? Sports I'll give you. Cars are already questionable. But fishing and hunting!?

Now I'm interested: what are your top three topics for talking to women? :)

Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by ryandv on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:26AM (#44862998)
> Now I'm interested: what are your top three topics for talking to women? :)

Obviously, the exact same topics for talking to men?

Can't believe you would make such a hateful and misogynistic comment.

Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by sokoloff on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:33AM (#44863036)
Have you found a generally equal level of interest in hunting, fishing, sports, and cars across the genders?

That’s not been my experience and, as a basic social skill, I seek to adapt my conversational topics to the audience’s interest.

Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by ryandv on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:41AM (#44863108)
> Have you found a generally equal level of interest

Of course. Anyone who rejects gender equality is a sexist bigot and likely a transphobe.

Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by sokoloff on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:45AM (#44863137)
Gender equality does not imply nor require gender indistinguishability.

Rejecting the latter does not imply rejecting the former, but of course you know that and are just being a gender-neutral cylindrical appendage.

Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by riehwvfbk on Monday August 11, 2025 @08:19AM (#44863361)
> Gender equality does not imply nor require gender indistinguishability

Careful, in a few years talking like this will get you canceled.

> being a gender-neutral cylindrical appendage

Now that's better! This is what we must all strive to be.

Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by spacechild1 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:37AM (#44873441)
I was rather mocking the parent poster for suggesting such overly cliché topics. In reality, men and women share many common interests (music, movies, food, travel, etc.) which I also think are more universal than cars and fishing.
Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by brulard on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:38AM (#44863077)
Your comment is the only one hateful here. Where I'm from there are absolutely different topics to talk to men and women. You may hate it as much as you like, but that's the world many of us live in.
Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by netsharc on Monday August 11, 2025 @09:06AM (#44863654)
He's very probably mocking "the woke" by exaggerating how they criticize people...
Re:Basic Social Skills Guide by brulard on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @06:21PM (#44882462)
Oh, man. I think you are right, I can't believe i took it at face value.