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Know Your ‘Benching’ From Your ‘Shrekking’? A Depressing Glossary of Modern Dating Terms and Trends
Euronews ^ | 11/11/2025 | David Mouriquand

Posted on 11/12/2025 5:31:27 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 11/12/2025 5:31:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Someone has too much free time.


2 posted on 11/12/2025 5:36:07 PM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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And they wonder why MGTOW is a thing.


3 posted on 11/12/2025 5:37:00 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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MGTOW is a movement designed to put feminists in charge of society.


4 posted on 11/12/2025 5:40:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
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So often wrong.


5 posted on 11/12/2025 5:44:02 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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A lot of modern dating is strictly transactional. Which is to say: prostitution. You want sex? Well ... pay me.

And there are a lot of people out there spending money on expensive dates, expensive restaurants, and giving expensive gifts. And they get sex for awhile. But then someone “better” comes along, and people just move on.

Which can lead to high body counts. Plenty of people now see to have triple-digit body counts. One of the big problems there is a learned inability to pair-bond. If they ever manage to get married, they simply will not know how to bond in any sort of permanent way. One morning, after maybe 5 years of marriage, they will decide that their partner brushes their teeth in an annoying way, and that's it. That marriage is over. Because why not? Why be stuck in such an unhappy marriage??

It's a disaster on so many levels.

6 posted on 11/12/2025 5:44:28 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: nickcarraway

If not AI generated banalities...it shows how immature up and dishonest “modern” people are.


7 posted on 11/12/2025 5:45:08 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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One morning, after maybe 5 years of marriage, they will decide that their partner brushes their teeth in an annoying way, and that’s it.


“I hate the way she licks stamps. I hate her furniture. And I hate that little sound she makes when she sleeps.”


8 posted on 11/12/2025 5:46:22 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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And with online dating, it’s “Plenty Of Fish In The Sea” syndrome.

Back when our grandparents were growing up, basically if you wanted a good wife, you basically had to have one by the time you turned 18, or the pickings would be slim.


9 posted on 11/12/2025 5:48:02 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Nothing new. This is the same as it always was. Difference is these women and their behaviors are socially acceptable to a wider range of people. They’re still as sadistically mercenary as ever. And unacceptable to normal people

They get away with it because men accept it

With birth control and abortion, men can have physical relationships they could not in the past. They’re still women know it and wield power


10 posted on 11/12/2025 5:48:18 PM PST by stanne
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Throning is what I do soon after the first cup of coffee.

Freegards


11 posted on 11/12/2025 5:50:07 PM PST by Ransomed
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OMG ...


12 posted on 11/12/2025 5:50:25 PM PST by GOPJ (Vietnam had 95% tariffs on the United States. Were they taxing us? <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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13 posted on 11/12/2025 5:51:34 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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The sex obsessed culture is what leads to this.

Immorality is why they’re here.

Frankly, sex for money is more moral than sex for free.

Yet we continue to look down at sex workers - while screwing anyone we want just for kicks, just for the night, or just to play house until we decide we don’t like it now.

This is also why we have no one to blame but ourselves (hetero) regarding homosexuals and trannies and making them all “normal” - we made sex far too easy and too paramount, out in the open for all. If you like it, do it.

It’s long been disgusting.


14 posted on 11/12/2025 6:04:53 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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If only they would have listened to Charlie Kirk


15 posted on 11/12/2025 6:11:14 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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To: nickcarraway

Just scanned them but this one caught my eye: When one person in the relationship asks for things indirectly, dropping vague hints without being upfront about what they want.

I think this is a timeless behavior of most wives.


16 posted on 11/12/2025 6:12:06 PM PST by Raycpa
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ZIP coding ding ...

Back in my day we used the term "GU" ... geographically undesirable. Simply put ... to much time, effort, & expense involved in maintaining a relationship.

17 posted on 11/12/2025 6:22:47 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: stanne

It is new. Because of social media.


18 posted on 11/12/2025 6:28:09 PM PST by nwrep
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49er: Four who thinks she's a nine.

Ambition Gap: Euphemism for a money gap as in "I want him to make more money for me." (Yet if he was a trust fund kid but lazy, she'd be all over him).

AuntiePops: Aunts of GirlyPops, who are too old to be chasing relationships

AWFLs: (Affluent White Female Liberals)

Bureaugamy: A family pattern involving a mother, a child, and a bureaucrat. - from Anthropologist Lionel Tiger in "The Decline of Males" (1999)

Feral Cheryl: Based on a doll from Australia that was meant to be a feminist anti-Barbie. It has dreadlocks, tattoos, piercings, and bare feet.

Hobosexual: a bum that women like because they're always available to be at her beck and call. "If her hobosexual is lounging around her apartment all day playing video games, he's not out with other women."

Hoeflation: Today's men must work 5 times harder than their grandfathers for women that are 20 times worse than their grandmothers.

Maintenance Sex: Just enough sex to keep someone in line

Refrigerator Protecting The Snack - The fat girl who stops you from trying meet her pretty friend.

Shelaborating: when you ask a woman a simple question and she gives you a 30 minute answer. It's real, unlike mansplaining.

Sniper's Dream: Woman with a five-head or larger. A reference to the increased number of women with receding hairlines

THOT: That Hoe Over There

Tinderella: the woman on dating apps chasing Chad

19 posted on 11/12/2025 6:31:20 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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People 50 years ago were like this and they would have done it. Because of social media and social acceptance of birth control. They’re the same


20 posted on 11/12/2025 6:31:26 PM PST by stanne
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