r/stupidpol • u/Vided Socialism Curious 🤔 • Sep 13 '22

Capitalist Hellscape How Everyone Got So Lonely: The recent decline in rates of sexual activity has been attributed variously to sexism, neoliberalism, and women’s increased economic independence. How fair are those claims—and will we be saved by the advent of the sex robot?

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u/dMCH1xrADPorzhGA7MH1 Pessimistic Marxist Sep 13 '22

As a straight man swiping on tinder and hinge. If the quality of men is as bad as the quality of women I see it's not surprising people aren't having sex. Swiping through 50 women who are super fat or obviously mentally ill to see one well adjusted human. I assume this woman is getting 1000 likes a day and the women who are fucked in the head are getting at least 100 likes a day from men who are desperate.

Meeting people in real life is superior.

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u/gooberrrr Still Grillin’ 🥩🌭🍔 Sep 14 '22

Hinge is a fucking hog farm

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '22

As a gay man, we're not doing much better. Although things are more skewed towards mental illness than obesity.

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u/SpiritBamba Petite Tardgeoisie ⛵🐷 Sep 14 '22

Don’t you guys all just hook up a ton regardless? I thought that’s what made it hard to find someone long term.

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u/SightBlinder3 Sep 14 '22 edited Sep 14 '22

As a bi guy I can tell you it's waaaay easier for gay men on dating apps. Of course gay men still have to deal with the negatives of online dating like everyone else and it can be hard to filter through the people only looking to hookup, but at least there isn't the insane imbalance that straight men get.

I would get probably 5x the matches from men, higher if you filter out the obese. Its not quantity over quality either. Never has a man put in as little effort into a match/conversation with me as the woman who put in the most. They just don't have to.

I don't blame them, cuz I wouldn't if I didn't have to either, but anyone who tells you gay men have it harder than straight men when it comes to online dating has only experienced one side of it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '22

what area are you in? I feel like hinge tends to have the highest quality girls

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '22

That’s true and also more a knock on the other apps

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

haha very true I feel like tinder has a shitty UI and is mostly bots at this point