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[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 66 points 4 days ago

men are discouraged from approaching women and women dont want to show their interest in clear way. How have we not gone extinct yet?

[-] jali67@lemmy.zip 52 points 4 days ago

Because the internet isn’t real life and plenty of people know how to talk to people, including those of the opposite sex.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Fun story: this guy I know on my gaming Facebook group would complain about being single. This was an older men's group/dad group. He'd repeat whatever the manosphere would say and ask for validation, and we (usually married dudes) usually say things like, "Yeah man dating is hard" and "women give mix signals".

Finally, mods called out how his last 10+ posts were complaining and his shitty attitude is just sucking the energy out of the group. They warned him that if he kept it up, they'd ban him from the group until he fixed his behavior.

Fast forward to today - he's telling us about his new girlfriend he met on NYE and how they had a amazing valentines. He shared how after that post, he took a long look at himself and stopped sabotaging himself.

[-] Haunt@thelemmy.club 8 points 3 days ago

That isn't as true as you think. Communication is often the weakest part of any relationship (romantic, platonic, professional).

Everyone has their own language and very few people are willing to adapt to someone else's way of communicating, even when that effort should be mutual.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

We slowly are, most western countries have a birth rate below what we need to maintain the population.

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago

That’s for economic reasons that have nothing to do with gender issues.

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's not economic, as much as people like to believe.

Even socially democratic utopias like Norway ,which have such massive sovereign funds that their citizenry don't need to work a day in their lives, have a population birth crisis.

And while I obviously am not arguing against it, the biggest correlation with declining birth rates are education and women enfranchisement.

Honestly, a demographic implosion needs to happen with some generation. Better now, to reset capitalistic expectations of unsustainable growth then later when it's compounded.

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

In Norway, housing costs have skyrocketed like in the rest of the rest of the western world. This plays a significant role in the decline of birth rates. Also, as populations increase in wealth and education, birth rates tend to go down, because parents prioritize focusing on fewer children rather than having more to support an agrarian economy. It is economy-driven. The effects on female empowerment are interwoven with that. Women tend to do better in better economies, because better economies focus more on service industries rather than material ones, which favor women over men.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago
[-] Tedesche@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

No, it’s not. Many studies have confirmed this. Do your research.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Yes it is, studies have confirmed it.

[-] tutter 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We compensate with ✨horny✨

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