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It's the women.
In general I think this is one of those maybe technically correct opinion in the strictest sense but is basically incorrect. You never say the exact words "I blame women" instead you repeatedly assign a disproportionate amount of causal and moral responsibility to women for the problems you've identified. It's a pain in the ass to dig through all your comments ever, so I sicked ChatGPT 5.6-sol on your user history, it only sampled some of them, I guess AI is as lazy as humans are, but it looks like it took the most recent 3 pages of your profile history and then about 5 randomly sampled and the 4 ending pages. Something like 28% of your comments are Dating/Women related and 84% of those expressed negative sentiment about women according to the Bay-Area RLHF regime. I suppose I could get a better read by running the code myself but that feels more invasive than what I just did and there seemed to be some DNS problem that I am too lazy to debug.
Making this about men, makes it still just as right as it was about women. It's almost like this is a complex multi-faceted systemic problem where both sides are stuck in delusional feedback loops feeding their own rage-filled echo chambers.
I'm not sure how, this is no different than "Being a misogynist is repellant to women vs have you look at female attraction towards dark triad traits". Studies are complex and a twitter post with no paper attached is the worst kind of evidence because you can't even fact check. It's literally just selling outrage for clicks. I get that you like living in an echo chamber because outrage feels good but this is rage porn. News flash interacting with other people in competitive stressful environments makes you like other people less.
Yes I'm sure like most conservatives you believe we need to save people from themselves. If only they would not be gay then their souls will be saved, if we just torture them some more they will find salvation in heaven. What is weeks of earthly pain for an eternity in heaven!!! Do I need to pull out the C.S. Lewis quote?
How many women have you talked to about their anecdotes, and personal experiences? You clearly act like you think women are children, is that why you don't think their opinion is relevant to the conversation?
That said I've also never said this, and I don't think it. I think you have a very complex relationship with women. They clearly are some sort of collective villain in your mind.
Tho the longer I have this conversation the more I feel like some poster arguing with SS about DaJoos. As in you've already made up your mind, there is nothing that would change it. You already have this grand unified theory of everything. Everything returns to DA FOIDs, I talk about social community formation, back to DA FOIDS HAVE NO HONOR (This is a flair for the ages).
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