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Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back. {Women wondering about the lack of real men}
New York times ^ | 20yh June 2025 | Rachel Drucker

Posted on 06/22/2025 2:02:49 AM PDT by Cronos

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To: A_perfect_lady

See post 38—but I agree with your “business merger” comment.

She sounds like a venture capitalist looking for her next acquisition.


41 posted on 06/22/2025 4:12:53 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Cronos
How men read this article:

I - 54 years old, body count in the dozens, divorced - recently experienced a flicker of possibility. With James a bot. We met on Raya, the dating app. There was something mutual from the start — wordplay, emotional precision, a tone that felt attuned, and his repeated inquiries about my PIN number, whether I was interested in investing in BitCoin, and if I would like to buy a time-share in Florida. It was brief, but it caught light. I remember saying to him, “Even fleeting connections matter, when they’re mutual and lit from the inside.” I meant it.
Regards,
42 posted on 06/22/2025 4:16:19 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: KevinB
You beat me to it!

There was something mutual from the start — wordplay, emotional precision, a tone that felt attuned....

I've never met her and I'm already annoyed.

43 posted on 06/22/2025 4:18:59 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Cronos

Young men aren’t fleeing “intimacy.”

They’re fleeing divorce, metoo, and feminism.


44 posted on 06/22/2025 4:20:25 AM PDT by Ikeon (5,365 times,I've already told ya. YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID)
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To: alexander_busek

A 54 year old woman is wondering why men are avoiding her.

This is unintentional satire.

If she was 24 she probably would have to beat off the young men with a stick.


45 posted on 06/22/2025 4:21:35 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: GenXPolymath

Actually, it’s both pornography and the woke mind virus.


46 posted on 06/22/2025 4:21:51 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Cronos

Exactly.


47 posted on 06/22/2025 4:22:21 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: af_vet_1981

That’s correct.


48 posted on 06/22/2025 4:23:09 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Ikeon

True.


49 posted on 06/22/2025 4:23:24 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Cronos

More importantly, who is doing this porn? Women.


50 posted on 06/22/2025 4:23:42 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Cronos
We never needed you to be perfect. We needed you to be with us. Not above. Not muted. Not masked. Just with.

She says that now, but wait a few weeks and then the demands come out.

And then the claws...

51 posted on 06/22/2025 4:25:18 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Cronos
"Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back."

(spit) It's the stinking democrappy party (New York Slimes) moaning about men wanting nothing to do with the faggots and ugly people of the left...

52 posted on 06/22/2025 4:26:33 AM PDT by unread
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To: Cronos

I think, if more girls learned to bait their own hooks, boys would take them fishing way more often. I don’t have to bait Ted’s and in fact I wouldn’t think he expects me too.


53 posted on 06/22/2025 4:28:57 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: Equine1952

Maybe men are tired of having female amateur psychologists make crude condescending generalizations about them in daily newspaper columns.


54 posted on 06/22/2025 4:30:22 AM PDT by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents Say Global Warming Is An Existential Crisis)
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To: A_perfect_lady
A lot of men are into body count. Its hard wired. Women too. How did we get here? The separation of church and state.

Madeline ohare sued to get prayer out of public schools and now even private schools struggle with lawsuits over prayers.

People stopped shaming single moms, teen pregnancy is no longer shunned, shacking up is normal.

Everyone is gay, a decent God fearing man can be tempted by a jezebel and robbed of his fortune by the court system, no fault divorce, quickly divorce, in Maryland it used to be a year separation now its 30 days. If you dont care about cheating while married , why should you care if youre divorced or not?

Kids don't go the church anymore. And when you do get them to church, they eat chips, candy, or play on their phones!! IM NOT EXAGGERATING!

55 posted on 06/22/2025 4:30:34 AM PDT by Ikeon (5,365 times,I've already told ya. YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID)
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To: A_perfect_lady
There's a flip side to that. A lot The top 4.5% of men do the same thing. They're "players" all their lives [...]

Being a "cad" takes a lot of commitment. It takes effort, money, and time. And you can forget it from the get-go if you aren't already over 5'9", very wealthy / high-status, or extremely handsome out of the gate.

A middling woman can waste her 20s effortlessly, whereas a man with the same prerequisites would still have to make an enormous effort - and even if he wastes his 20s, when he hits 35, he can still straighten up, look for an adequate mate, and attempt to settle down. He might actually have a decent career, and other excellent prospects to draw mates (while men don't give a plug nickel about a woman's educational attainments or career success). His daily production of sperm will still number in the hundreds of millions - while a woman of the same age is already entering "geriatric pregnancy" territory.

[...] and then in their 40s or 50s they have a health scare and decide it's time to find a [...]

You are selectively constructing a scenario - one in no way typical of the majority of men / players. Those men are no more likely to suffer a "health scare" than women with a similar lifestyle.

Regards,

56 posted on 06/22/2025 4:32:44 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Cronos
Same Rachel Drucker?

#WeLiveYes: Rachel’s COVID-19 Vaccine Journey

When I received an email inviting me to sign up for a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, I registered within minutes for a slot the very same day. My hands were shaking with excitement, even though I am absolutely terrified of needles...For my internship for my master’s degree in social work, I work three days a week in the medical/surgical unit at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

57 posted on 06/22/2025 4:33:33 AM PDT by jonatron (My pronoun is "garbage.")
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To: A_perfect_lady

Most women on the dating scene would rather be part-time lovers of high quality men. I think it has to do with competition between women as to the kind of man they get to lay. They’d rather law a high quality man part of the time than somebody more average all of the time.

I find, from studying the issue, that women judge other women harshly if they aren’t laying the best men they can get, if only for the lay and not the commitment.


58 posted on 06/22/2025 4:36:40 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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To: Texas Eagle
Just a suggestion: stop being a competitor or opponent, try being a teammate helpmeet.

The man should be the head / leader.

Regards,

59 posted on 06/22/2025 4:37:45 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Cronos

Former FReeper IowaHawk on this:

https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/1936581479795982391


60 posted on 06/22/2025 4:39:08 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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