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That picture above is too kind. Here is another one. Maybe there is something true about Scientology?
McGillis isn't even of social security age but looks like a 70-something.
Heraclitusstudent says
I went to the Drunktank Zone
Decent as in Flabby the elephant seal...
A feminist professor complained in a blog post Sunday that the Bumble dating app failed to deliver on its promise of female empowerment.
Writing for The Conversation, health studies researcher Treena Orchard said she joined Bumble in part because it requires women to ask out men. As she noted, the app markets itself as a “100 percent feminist” solution to misogyny on other apps.
However, Orchard soon decided that being “empowered” is sexist, too. She expressed resentment at having to perform the traditionally male task of sending “invitation after invitation to potential matches” while the men “largely sit and wait for their invites to come.”
“Will he respond? Will this one like me?” she recalled agonizing. “Putting myself out there repeatedly made me feel vulnerable, not empowered.”
To cope with her hardships on Bumble, Orchard began documenting her experiences on the app with academic rigor. The results were not pretty. By her count, only 60 percent of her pickup lines were successful, and she reported going on dates with “just ten men in five months, which is a nine percent ‘success rate.'”
TL;DR: Feminist Dating App created to not let men pester women and have women make the first move is... not delivering, says Feminist Professor. "I feel vulnerable, not empowered". Irony that society expects men to put themselves out and initiate contact, is of course lost in Feminist Solipsism.A feminist professor complained in a blog post Sunday that the Bumble dating app failed to deliver on its promise of female empowerment.
Writing for The Conversation, health studies researcher Treena Orchard said she joined Bumble in part because it requires women to ask out men. As she noted, the app markets itself as a “100 percent feminist” solution to misogyny on other apps.
However, Orchard soon decided that being “empowered” is sexist, too. She expressed resentment at having to perform the traditionally male task of sending “invitation after invitation to potential matches” while the men “largely sit and wait for their invites to come.”
“Will he...
Bumble was the best dating app hands down for men. Sit back and relax and make the do the bidding, and the chicks looked 100 times better than on Tinder and usually had their shit together. One good invention by a womyn, even though it backfired for some of them ;)
The results were not pretty. By her count, only 60 percent of her pickup lines were successful, and she reported going on dates with “just ten men in five months, which is a nine percent ‘success rate.'”
It's a rigid biologic rule. My guess is it establishes the nature of the sexual bargaining contract. A woman is approached and at once has the negotiating upper hand. She has something of value i.e. femininity, beauty, desirability, reproductive potential etc. but it is entirely passive and she gets to judge the 'consideration' that passes in order to share her companionship and potential mating behavior. The man has to demonstrate that he has something to offer, and run the gauntlet of shit testing, because by nature he is valueless, unpredictable, uncivilized or cheap.
It's a rigid biologic rule. My guess is it establishes the nature of the sexual bargaining contract. A woman is approached and at once has the negotiating upper hand. She has something of value i.e. femininity, beauty, desirability, reproductive potential etc. but it is entirely passive and she gets to judge the 'consideration' that passes in order to share her companionship and potential mating behavior. The man has to demonstrate that he has something to offer, and run the gauntlet of shit testing, because by nature he is valueless, unpredictable, uncivilized or cheap.
Whatever fem psycho invented the app took the Hollywood trope to heart i.e. the one you see relentlessly in which the 'beautiful' but unattended female makes the first move, or is friendly to whatever conversation the man wants to have with her, and BROADCASTS her eagerness to jump into bed. Apparently, this oft repeated fiction somehow subliminally appeals to both men and women viewers. However, in ...
My wife has never exceeded 110 pounds in weight and it wasn't through vigorous exercise, just not eating like a pig everyday.
Asian? Good move, especially if she's also not born here.
Asian, eastern euro, and even Latin American women still appreciate strong men. It's western euro and big city US liberals who think women should be men, and men should be betas. Vomit.
CBOEtrader saysAsian? Good move, especially if she's also not born here.
Asian, eastern euro, and even Latin American women still appreciate strong men. It's western euro and big city US liberals who think women should be men, and men should be betas. Vomit.
I agree. Born in the U.S seems to carry the 50% divorce rate with it too. US Women just seem so entitled and spoiled compared to women overseas.
My friends are confused when my wife admits to giving me shoulder and back rubs after work, like it's some sort of amazing thing to happen outside of an anniversary.
Kilmer did survive a bout of cancer.
Mid-80s ...
Today ...
Excerpt: "In a candid interview with Entertainment Tonight, Kelly McGillis — who played Charlie Blackwood, Maverick’s instructor, lover and Everly Brothers serenadee in Top Gun — confirmed that she wasn’t asked to return for the sequel.
“I’m old and I’m fat and I look age-appropriate for what my age is, and that is not what that whole scene is about,” the 62-year-old actress, who also starred in Witness and The Accused told the outlet in a phone interview. “But ... I’d much rather feel absolutely secure in my skin and who and what I am at my age as opposed to placing a value on all that other stuff.”
She added that she is “glad” for Jennifer Connelly, who will be taking Cruise’s breath away this go-round."