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WCDT - 6-10 September 2010 (1746-1750)
Graphite:
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--- Quote from: J on 06 Sep 2010, 23:59 ---second of all you're speculating on someone else's internal internal motivations. this is all well and good with a hypothetical straw-man, but not with an actual human being.
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Er... Speculate is all one can ever do about other people's internal motivations, no matter how well one thinks one knows them. Only their behaviour is observable.
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true, but what i was trying to point out there is that you appear to be holding your own speculation (based off of very little information) against them. this seems unfair to me.
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But that's essentially what a guy who presents a 'douchebag' front to you when trying to pick you up would like you to do; he's chosen that front to present because he believes it will be attractive to either you specifically or women in general. If you presume that it does represent the real him, and he really is a douche, then judging him on that seems entirely fair, because even if that's only one facet of him, you'd probably rather date someone who isn't even a little douchey. If it's an act designed to impress you, and he's not 14, he may be acting based on faulty information about how 'girls like this', but in that case, it seems fair to judge him based on the fact that he has incredibly poor judgment and could genuinely bring himself to believe that girls would enjoy hanging out with arseholes.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: brew on 07 Sep 2010, 02:43 ---I bet Dora followed Marten and heard him say he loves Faye and will freak out about it.
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She won't need to have done that in order to freak out.
It's already happening, after the "readjustment" Faye gave her.
(emotional chiropracty, anyone?)
akronnick:
--- Quote from: Graphite on 07 Sep 2010, 03:10 ---But that's essentially what a guy who presents a 'douchebag' front to you when trying to pick you up would like you to do; he's chosen that front to present because he believes it will be attractive to either you specifically or women in general. If you presume that it does represent the real him, and he really is a douche, then judging him on that seems entirely fair, because even if that's only one facet of him, you'd probably rather date someone who isn't even a little douchey. If it's an act designed to impress you, and he's not 14, he may be acting based on faulty information about how 'girls like this', but in that case, it seems fair to judge him based on the fact that he has incredibly poor judgment and could genuinely bring himself to believe that girls would enjoy hanging out with arseholes.
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If it walks like a douche...
Tergon:
I'd just like to point out that anyone who thinks that acting like a douchebag will get you girls is saying that this man is correct.
His name is Mystery. He believes that he can attract ladies by acting like a peacock. He does not believe that "negative attention" is a thing which is real. And anyone who supports acting like a douchebag is saying, in direct terms, that they feel this man is intelligent and his advice is worth taking.
Yeah.
Switchblade:
Give us some credit, we're allowed to partially agree with a statement. That guy may be a colossal prick, but he is at least partly right. You can attract some ladies that way. Not all, because different women are going to have different reactions, ranging between "OMG WANT" and "That man is a flaming assbag and I want nothing to do with him." but he's at least right about the peacock thing being good for picking up those ladies who are attracted to jerks who act like peacocks.
Just like acting all pathetic, pale and nerdy is good for picking up ladies who like that. Or being an arrogant rap-star wanker with his pants slung so low that the ass is scraping the street. Or being a drug-fuelled rock star, a successful executive, or a manly farmhand type. Different people are attracted to different things, and I'm sure his jerk act DOES get him some action. So, he's not wrong as such. he's just not right all of the time either.
He is, however, completely wrong about there being no such thing as negative attention.
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