• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    Yeah, you guys who have been married for over a decade get to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. You’re working with outdated information, you’re like a boomer saying “All you need to get a six figure salary is to walk into a hardware store with a high school diploma and a firm handshake.” Time has made you ignorant.

    In fact it happened right at 13 years ago. I’m 5’7". Prior to 2010 I had no problem getting women. I found a girlfriend at ERAU. Male:female ratio on campus is 8:1. Between the ages of 14 and 24 I basically always had a girlfriend. In 2010, I finished flight school, earned a flight instructor certificate, and went FULL into my career. I was pulling 12 to 16 hour days at the airport, at one point I was doubling as an instructor and the company mechanic, so I’d spend the day with students, then pull the plane in the hangar to do a 100 hour inspection overnight.

    This lasted for about two years. I came back up and looked around to find the landscape had changed. It was 2012, smart phones weren’t for tech nerds anymore, everyone had one, and there was this new thing that launched that September called Tinder. Tinder became the preferred if not required platform for meeting women, approaching women in public became “weird” and “creepy” and “a sex felony”, and Tinder outright does not work for men under 6 feet tall.

    Right around then, women started having non-negotiable height requirements for men. They’re vocal about it. They write songs about it. They go on social media and make highly produced videos about it. Chinese men wear platform sneakers to make themselves look taller. There are young men having their shins broken and re-set to lengthen their legs to make themselves taller. Because of how much of a big deal height has become in the last decade or so.

    But yeah it’s totally men’s fault, right?

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      Women always had height requirements, you just started seeing them written down.

      Online dating certainly brought some new problems, but most women hate it too so if it doesn’t work for you the old staples of finding a partner through friends, a hobby or at work are still there, as well as specific dating activities.

      Or just don’t put your height in your bio and be funny. Those “non negotiable height requirements” turn out to be very negotiable in a lot of cases.

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      1 day ago

      if men have requirements of woman, its only fair for women to have standards and requirements of thier own. its not a one way relationship, that only breeds toxicity, and women not dating you.

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        Really? For decades I was told it’s unfair for men to have requirements of women?

        Men hate women, and women hate men. Men like vaginas and women like shoes. So let’s fight. That’s where I see society at right now. Am I wrong in any way?

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          I assure you sir, I am not trolling. All of my misanthropy is 100% genuine and of my own design. But in the words of Jayson Street, “I come with warning labels.”

          Middle Age Pilot Yells At Clouds, Says GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY!

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        1. Stop lying. No you don’t. You look like a Baptist saying he loves Jesus. Just who are you trying to fool? Whose brownie points do you think you’re earning?

        2. I don’t. I haven’t tried looking for a date since the pandemic and I don’t plan to start again. Women don’t want me, they want the quarter million dollars of real estate I own and the 2 million dollars of real estate I’m heir to. Well guess what? Unlike the majority of married men, I’m not losing my home in a divorce. I’m gonna die right there on my grandfather’s land on my grandfather’s couch and my three month rotted corpse will be found by police on a wellness check initiated by the town water company. I’m not gonna be taken to the hospital, forced to keep my heart beating after the stroke and live to be an 86 year old shambling corpse of a social security check for others to cash.

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          Hmmm, yes, no doubt it’s the women’s height requirements that are to blame, since you have such a sterling personality.