Women: How dare you use MakeApp to expose our efforts to manipulate you men into loving us!
Suffrage has been one epic *facepalm*.
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This example might not be the right one for you to use. Here, let me explain:
You: How DARE you use manipulative efforts to make me love you!
@some Christian Anon
(What the heck does he mean by 'game'?) image
@Pharaoh Bastethotep
I was not aware that you could use such a horrid excuse of an RPG to seduce women.
And by that I mean I really doubt that's what he meant, but it's probably something similar anyway.
Still explains a lot.
@Some Christian Anon
That... is not a game you could ever use to seduce as much as a dying rat. Read the review, had the displeasure of at one time reading it`s rulebook and I`m just gonna throw "anal circumference" here. Yes, it was a stat.
So let me see if I've got this straight. This douchebag thinks that I, and other women who wear makeup, are trying to elicit a complex emotional reaction from men (namely love) when we put stuff on our skin? To be honest, if I wanted to manipulate someone into loving me, I don't think I'd use make-up. I'd probably go for interacting with them in such a way that they wanted more from me and felt favourably towards me.* Chemical shit that goes on your face is unlikely to make somebody love you - that's my experience, anyway.
*I wouldn't want to manipulate anyone into loving me. That would be a thousand kinds of awkward. If I were looking for a new partner now, I'd want the love to be mutual.
Brief for Heariste but still chock full of stupid.
From the sounds of it MakeApp's entire purpose is to auto-photoshop images of women into something incredibly unflattering and generally insult them. Like regular old photoshops of Hitler moustaches or catching a man with a stupid look on his face or drooling in his sleep or something. But trying to say makeup is manipulation is like accusing a man of using manipulation every time he puts on a shirt. It's even stupider when you consider just how much focus and the ridiculous level of expectation is placed on women's looks, not just in the context of dating. When Ivanka Trump accompanied her idiot father on a diplomatic talk her outfit got more mention in the news than the President of the United States acting like a bratty child the entire time. The length of her skirt was examined more closely for risk of offending a dignitary than... anything her father does and he's Donald fucking Trump. It's cute when he insults someone on purpose apparently. You see it in political coverage all the time: If a female politician's hair is out of place that gets more focus than anything she says while a man could show up in a sweaty track suit with barely a mention.
But moving on.
So-called "game" on the other hand is explicitly all about manipulation. "Game" differs from being generally pleasant company and a skilled conversationalist in that it has only one goal and everything is meant to push someone towards fulfilling it for you. This can include lying outright and psychological undermining meant to needle a woman's self-confidence until she considers sleeping with a man just to feel wanted and on a wider scale is meant to completely anchor self-worth to being used by others for pleasure. It's all about making people hate themselves until they need validation from an outside source and in that moment acting like you validating them through sex is some kind of favour she wouldn't get from anyone else. Why impress a woman when you can tear her down instead and then still make her feel like shit afterwards? Oh right, basic human decency and a functional conscience.
If you think women's suffrage - the ability to work for a living and act with their own legal agency - hurts your dating chances that's a loud and damning admission that you would be the last resort of a woman scraping the bottom of the barrel for her own survival because society was holding a metaphorical gun to her head and nothing is appealing about you personally.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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