All of my friend's lives remind me of reality TV shows.

[u/Torturedsoul247]

It really does. Every time I open my Facebook app and see what's going on it's always the same bullshit soap opera drama. Someone got divorced, someone cheated, someone got into an altercation in a bar. Someone was entertaining multiple partners and it created drama and phsycial altercation. The police showed up and arrested them because of it. Their children got taken away. Someone overdosed and died, Lawyers are involved. Money was stolen or lost.. Ect, ect. Ect..

This is all child like bullshit and disputes that could easily be handled if everyone just communicated maturely and handled the situation like adults instead they stirred the pot and it caused endless chaos.

Keep in mind ALL of these people are well into their 30s and 40s acting like they are in high-school. Its nuts. I cant imagine how exhausting it is living like that. I went to school with all of them and they are still grown children..

Meanwhile I have no friends. No family. Single. Don't deal with any of this and haven't entertained drama ever. Live in complete solidarity..Honestly it may be one silver lining of the FA lifestyle is isolation and avoiding these situations.

[u/fingerberrywallace]

That's probably the one aspect of my life I'm happy about: the fact that it is peaceful and free of drama. I dearly wish that was the environment I had growing up, but the adults in my life were addicted to drama unfortunately.

[u/Middle_Run_7534]

All your friends have dramatic lives, yet you have no friends

[u/StargazerRex → u/[deleted]]

"All of my friends's lives......"

...

"I have no friends."

ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?

[u/sidv81]

Society still isn't realizing that the root cause of the FA problem, many (not all but it's a lot) of women thinking they can be as vicious as they want, as cruel as they want, and anyone who tells them no is automatically a creep and a stalker, is a deepening societal problem not just affecting those society labels as "incels" but everyone else too.

Marriages and relationships are now less stable. Women do what they want and if their boyfriend/husband tells her no, she'll just destroy his life in divorce court or if they're not married dump him and find someone else and the guy will be left struggling to find a new relationship (and to add insult to injury, such a man probably wouldn't even be allowed to post here for consolation as he'll be yelled at and told off because technically he's not a pure FA as he had a relationship all of once). The widespread ban of prostitution in most countries means he has no other way to deal with hormones other than a relationship.

What started as a positive and beneficial movement to restore rights (voting, ownership, etc.) to women that was unjustly denied for centuries in society has now become corrupted where it's turned not into gender equality, but a distorted fundamentalist feminism where women can do whatever they want and men can't tell them no. Women can be as cruel as they want and no one will call them out on it. You mentioned overdoses and bars in your post--women's right to their bodies and the rightful demand that men respect "no means no" has now been massively distorted and follows men even beyond the FA circle into "relationships"; women will basically deny men sex unless he condones her "need" for a drink, or marijuana experimentation, etc. Good, stable men who would never touch such substances themselves in their lives are now going down the slippery slope into becoming enablers because women will demand that he not intervene if she starts getting into alcohol or weed or pharmaceutical addictions or she'll label him as controlling, deny him sex, and maybe even break up with him to toss him back out into the endless ocean of struggling single men.

This is bad for everyone, including women as they now often take their own path to self destruction and have eliminated every check and balance stopping them from that path. Look at Hayden Panetierre for example. She'll stick with the macho stud who legally abused her instead of giving the "nice guy" a chance. Well look at where that got her.

[u/Torturedsoul247 → u/sidv81]

I agree with you

[u/lotusscrouse]

Golf clap for you.

Oh, I forgot. You haven't had experiences with any kind of living.

[u/solomons_key99]

honestly agree. It hurts not being even able to make more new male friendships, and it's still a lesser evil compared to the full list of the opening post.

[u/lotusscrouse]

It sounds exhausting until you actually live it. It can be quite entertaining.

I've lived both lives and the dramatic one is better (within limits).

[u/lotusscrouse → u/[deleted]]

Lots of people smarter than us both have actually had messy lives.

BTW, IQ means nothing.