What got me was that both were super relatable up to the point that they both went absolutely off the deep end.

I think what made this story insanely popular (besides pandemic boredom) is that everyone involved comes across as an asshole, but a relatable asshole. We’ve all known a Sonya or a Dawn, some of us have been a Sonya or a Dawn, and not a damn one of us would want our bitchy group texts printed in the New York Times.

Kinja’s being Kinja, so I can’t reply directly to the folks in the greys asking why anyone would pay for help dating.

Can’t tell if that’s a typo or an excellent pun

We are not talking about you. We’re talking about the men we encounter on dating sites, who are generally not in long-term, stable relationships with a life partner. Who, you’ve made abundantly clear is not you, so yay, you get a star for being a decent human.

Way to make it about you, “Joel.” There’s always an exception. I recommend talking to your local friendly therapist about how much this hurt you, since it was not directed at you.

I used to be a ghostwriter for dating site profiles (yes, that is an actual thing). I’m not going to say that every man over 45 was looking for a woman under 28... but it sure seemed like it.

There’s absolutely an academic approach that can be taken and studied to try to understand the reasons why we do the things we do, like why we think baby animals are cute and also want to eat cute things.

To be fair to Lizzie Bennet, she lived in a totally different time where women’s literal survival depended on attracting and locking down the wealthiest mate possible. She did not have the option of earning her own living, or, regardless of money, living an independent life without marriage. Under those circumstances,…

I get your angle but evolutionary psychology has been around long before women could attend college. It’s just an excuse for those in power to denigrate their “lessers.”

I used to work for the publisher of Why Men Love Bitches. There were some good things in there about nourishing your own self worth and not dropping your whole life for a prospective partner. I particularly liked one anecdote about how doing someone’s laundry won’t ever ever make them want to commit to you.

The fact that Jeffrey Epstein was super into evolutionary psychology should tell you everything you need to know. 

That was my thought exactly, a lot of this sounds like what you might get if you asked red-pillers to write advice for women.

I have always contended that evo psych was invented by middle-aged college professors to justify being predatory towards barely legal coeds.

This honestly sounds like the fever dream of the MRA world, and I’d be curious to know what percentage of the activity actually IS those guys LARP-ing as the kind of evil shrew bitch they imagine they’re “up against”.

“When a man has found his dream girl, he will ditch his old ways and become the man that she expects to have,” says one post.

For a lot of people, having their tv on doesn’t mean they’re actively watching it or that they aren’t doing anything better/more productive. Decades of cable tv have made it really hard for some people to switch to not having any noise in the background while they eat or perform other tasks (or even go to sleep). And…

What I’d like would be the ability to make a custom playlist - let me pick and choose episodes of one or more tv shows (or movies) and play them in that order, automatically, for however long it takes for me to finish them. This would be great for parties or holidays, just to put themed things on one after the next in…

It’s literally right there in the list. # 7:

I’d love a setting to turn off the auto-start when I navigate to a movie or show. Sometimes I just need to get it set up and ready, but am waiting for popcorn to finish or someone to get off their phone call...