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Woodworking partner: for when you want no garage space, to be frequently annoyed by loud noises, and to have half of your furniture and bowls made of epoxy. We don't need another table, Jeffrey! We already have six. Our home only has three rooms that could fit a table already! You have a sickness! I don't care that it's in the shape of a whale!

[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago

"I don't care that it's in the shape of a whale!" is now my new favorite phrase and I now plan on 3D printing that to hang on my wall

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[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 119 points 2 months ago

Where is Linux?! Surely it must be on the top, I be reading (manuals), "foregin" language (bash), writing (scripts). Right?

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 months ago

Reading the fucking manuals, no less!

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[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 101 points 2 months ago

My wife used to think that a man who knew how to work on cars was sexy until I built a racecar in the garage, and she saw the parts invoices.

She also used to think a man who cooks is sexy until she learned that I am a GOOD cook and consequently that means I don't want help, I want you the fuck out of my kitchen, don't sample the ingredients they are weighed and portioned for a damn reason and if you put sweet baby rays on a $50 cut of steak again it will be the last time I ever cook for you.

[-] mxcory 29 points 2 months ago

if you put sweet baby rays on a $50 cut of steak

Monster!

Grabs Heinz 57

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 2 months ago

Shit, I have to ask. What in the world is Manosphere?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

The best explanation I've heard for it, which also dips into the why, is:

Once upon a time, there was the patriarchy. For men, this meant they had the purpose of being the breadwinner, for the price of massive mental health issues, since they were never allowed to show weakness.
Nonetheless, a whole culture and identity evolved surrounding this struggle, with beards and alcohol and it being totally ~~not an expression of missing personal closeness~~ cool to have sex with lots of women.

Then came along feminism with the ultimate goal of fixing this. It didn't intend to take anything away from men, but it kind of requires allowing women to also be breadwinners, which slims down the purpose of men.
Suddenly, it's potentially not enough to bring home money, you need to help out in the household and not be a complete mental health wreck. You need to be able to show weakness.

And while this is great for many men, it's also where a lot of men get kind of left behind. They've lost their manly identity or their breadwinner purpose.

And that's where the whole mansophere stuff comes in.
People telling you everything is exactly like 50 years ago, and you should be wearing a beard and drinking alcohol and having sex with lots of women.
In a weird sense, this is good for men. But the whole community is also massively misogynistic, and blaming feminism rather than appreciating it as a potential proper solution, and of course, you've got right-wing "thoughtleaders", i.e. white dudes with microphones, to round it all of.
We desperately need better solutions for these men.

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago

My guess is listening to bro podcasts and bro websites.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Haha even porn as a hobby (wtf) wins that

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[-] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago

What are these hobbies???

Yeah my hobby is Arguing Online

Spoken like a madman

Drinking

????

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 16 points 2 months ago

Fuck you, those can be hobbies! *drains shot*

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[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

My husband’s main hobby is collecting baseball cards, but he also makes money buying and selling them (along with Pokémon and MTG). He was always a bit embarrassed of this hobby until he learned he has autism and it’s just his special interest. Now he understands and accepts himself better. And that’s hella attractive.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah tell your husband to keep rocking on.

Hasn't he heard? Collecting cards are cool now with a huge community, and bonus points he has an amazing partner who loves his confidence.

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[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

My takeaway is that gaming is a neutral.

[-] UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

The secret is couch co-op

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 37 points 2 months ago
[-] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

90% think archery is an attractive hobby. Really.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 28 points 2 months ago

I did a informal survey at work a few months ago where we as a team play archery or play bowling. And 100% of the women staff said archery and then talked about Hunger Games.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Foreign languages, bet they mean French and Spanish. And not the weebs learning Japanese or the Dutch

Also who would call their porn watching habits a hobby? It’s just something you do to kill some time, like scrolling social media. A hobby is something you can get better in or gain deep knowledge in. Calling porn a hobby is like calling eating, or shopping a hobby. Consuming stuff is not a hobby.

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[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure, people say hiking is attractive, but I can only assume there's a bias to forest hiking.

Meanwhile, I go out and do a four to five hour urban hike and people act like I have some sort of disorder.

"wHy DoN't YoU jUsT dRiVe?" Because a drive to the beer store in the town across the river is an errand, a walk to the same place is a fucking ADVENTURE, Helen!

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[-] grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Hello, my hobby is arguing online - are we a match?

I don't have any hobbies in the "least attractive", but also not many in the "most attractive" either...and the ones I do - hiking and photography (of the stuff I see while hiking) are not really things my partner is into. Oh well, I guess we make it work.

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

ITT: people missed to poke fun at "blacksmithing"

Who on earth is blacksmithing as a hobby? Is that even possible except if your occupation is actually being blacksmith? Like, would you set up blacksmithing equipment in your garage?

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Yes. One of my coworkers has done exactly that.

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[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 19 points 2 months ago

I'm genuinely sickened that 3%+ of respondents consider manosphere attractive

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago

They probably thought it was referring to spherical man butts

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago

i'm sorry blacksmithing? I mean it's cool as fuck, don't get me wrong, but have you seen that shit? it's the LEAST sexy hobby by far.

Also, traveling is not a hobby, stop pretending it is. That's like saying veganism is a hobby.

anyway, my main hobbies consist of playing minecraft or factorio like an autist, fucking around with linux, or philosophy, so i probably score, somewhere...

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[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I'm into astrophotography. Does that make me attractive to 181% of women?

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[-] childOfMagenta@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

MTG?

Shouldn't she be way lower?

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[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

"Arguing online" is unattractive? It's actually one of the more relevant signs of intelligence if one can state their points coherently. In this 3-part essay I will...

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

My tuba playing and german lessons are to reap great benefits soon...

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[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Are the 3.1% that like the manosphere okay? Do they need help?

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Why would you post detailed statistics without listing the source?

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[-] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

according to women. Says so right in the graph title!

/s

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[-] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got the top 5 of the attractive list and only arguing online from the other list, so I think that's cancelled out.

Edit: checked with wife, she says graph is accurate.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Hang on, the real story here is more than 3 in 100 find Manosphere attractive

What the actual fuck is that?

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[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

How is weed so low? I get it's not literally everyone's cup of tea but I'm my experience more people partake or are ok with it than not.

[-] Kacarott@aussie.zone 19 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure how the survey was phrased to participants, but to me a "hobby" is a regular thing someone does, as their way to pass the time/have fun. I've smoked before and have no problem with it, but I do think I would find it less attractive for it to be someone's hobby, as opposed to an occasional social thing they do.

Similarly I have no problem with people watching porn, but if it's gone far enough for it to be considered their hobby, then that is less attractive to me, which also matches the chart.

I might be misunderstanding the word hobby, but so might many of the survey participants.

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[-] Custard@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I feel like this would work better as negative, neutral, positive instead of attractive or not. This ends up putting things that aren't attractive but not negative down at the bottom with things that are actually unattractive.

[-] mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago

Makeup? Y'all don't want a dude that likes to look good?

[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I need more info. What age women? Stat source?

[-] aeki@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

So I gather this not about the hobbies themselves being attractive but about what's attractive for a partner to have as a hobby, or even specifically a male partner? What was the question exactly?

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