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Warpy

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3. Recommended for truth

Reply to Katashi_itto (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 09:43 PM

Apr 2015

I know that self identified "nice guy" whiners, mansplainers, and outright jerks who demanded sex of any woman with the bad luck to be in their proximity always made me a lot less interested in meeting any more men for a while. All of these twits find ready homes in the MRA/PUA movements.

It was great to turn 50 and become largely invisible to them.

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How the bitter men of the MRA movement ruin things for other guys [View all] Katashi_itto Apr 2015 OP

It's a serious disease .... And it has a tendency to spread towards those afflicted with low self AuntPatsy Apr 2015 #1

Low self esteem? Warpy Apr 2015 #4

That's a lot of whining ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #5

Yeah, and I've listened to some of them who obviously "settled" Warpy Apr 2015 #8

They probably scored low on South Park's TMI index. Initech Apr 2015 #9

I read this earlier--so true ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #2

Recommended for truth Warpy Apr 2015 #3

Seems like this stuff has been going on forever and is not some kind of new movement. BlueJazz Apr 2015 #6

Kick and rec! zappaman Apr 2015 #7

ehh, I wouldn't bring up UVA MisterP Apr 2015 #10

I don't think they have a wide enough audience to do that Sen. Walter Sobchak Apr 2015 #11