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Genetics and age play into things like high blood pressure and cholesterol. Everyone is different
1 year

Website errror

FF Team:
Cheers for informing us about this I experienced the same issue logging on this morning and it has now been fixed.

Let us know if you encounter any further error pages on the site.

Take care,
c00kie
FF Team


The Gainers tab doesn’t work most of the time on mobile. It spits back an error string. Sometimes it will show the graph but also have the error at the top, usually just a blank page with the code. I haven’t tried on desktop, using safari for mobile.
1 year

Dating women without physical attraction?

X_Larsson:
I manage fine, thanks, but there is virtually no woman that sparks my interest.


We spoke, but this is the distillation of the whole thread. So either (as you defend) the blame lies predominantly with Northern European women, who fail to fall into the VERY narrow slot of “sparking your interest”, or the blame lies with you, who has created a situation where you can only be attracted to a tiny subset of the population. Most everyone in this thread has offered (good) advice, and for the most part, instead of being thoughtful and humble, you have tried to rebut the advice and build defenses around your current lifestyle.

If the status quo in your lovelife bothers you (and maybe it doesn’t, really, with how hard you defend it) you’re the only one who can change. You don’t have power or influence over millions of Scandinavian women. They won’t change for you.

You need to change.

(Please don’t try to equate this to homosexuality again. Queer folks don’t usually have trouble finding parters that meet their standards unless they have shame about their preferences or they construct such artificially high standards that there’s nobody who can meet them. The path to happiness, in both situations, is therapy).
1 year

Dating women without physical attraction?

Munchies:
Yes. It's called whipping out the graphs and charts.

You made a lot of claims about women. While I will not deny these claims are true for some women, are you sure they are as widespread as you assume them to be?

Keep in mind you have been explaining to women how women work. Are you really sure you want to hang your hat on that? Really and truly? This is after making statements about how women do not understand how men work.

The word "some" is your best and safest word choice. Words have denotations and connotations. You seem to understand the denotations (dictionary definitions) but struggle to understand the connotations (implied meaning).

Think again about the example I gave you. Think about how different the connotations of those words were and how they changed the sentence's meaning.

The same applies here.

Malvineous:
Ok, here are two articles that each cite multiple studies on what women find attractive in men.
businessinsider.com/science-backed-qualities-in-men-women-like-2016-6
confidencetoachieve.com.au/what-women-want-in-a-man-according-to-science/

I haven't been explaining to women how women work. I've been giving my thoughts on gendered differences in socialization/psychology, for both men and women who are reading the thread. It's not a private conversation. I know that women fully understand how they work. However, I don't think either gender fully understands how the other works, because each person is limited to their own perspective. Having conversations like this could be a way to reach some kind of understanding about each other.

I didn't expect everyone to agree with me, but I hoped to discuss the ideas on their own merits instead of simply getting told my language is wrong. I asked in good faith how to express the SAME ideas about patterns better, instead I'm basically told not to express them in the first place. Those are the connotations of what you're telling me. Again, I'm not attached to being right about this, but I do care about being able to speak on the topic. It's true that it may not be as widespread as I think, but that's an opportunity to give me some examples that you think are more widespread, and we can discuss.

The example you gave me of 'most men beat their wives' would only bother me because it's untrue. However, if you were to phrase it the other way around, and say that 'most partner abuse is committed by men', then that wouldn't bother me because it is true. My ego isn't wrapped up in such things. (Unless it were used as justification to reach some wild conclusion like 'that's why you should never trust your boyfriend' ). Also, how is saying 'most women are attracted to multiple things in a partner beyond the physical' as bad as saying 'most men beat their wives'? If we look at the connotations, then what I said would paint women in a more flattering light than men, because it would imply they're less "shallow".


So, Men are from Mars, Women Are From Venus was written in the 90s, right? I think many of us have learned, since then, that a lot of behavior that we ascribed to being gender-based, is really just socialized. Men could be “shallow” about physical appearance because they have agency and power and were allowed to be shallow by society. Boys will be boys, no guy will date you unless you’re a size 2, gentlemen prefer blondes. Very thin women were in vogue in the 70s and 80s, more athletic-to-curvy women are in vogue today. Male genetics didn’t change, social beauty standards did.

But in 2023 there’s also a growing issue with young men who can’t find a date, despite all the agency and power that comes with their gender. Is it because there’s a much wider dating pool for women due to technology? 30 years ago a 20-something woman and a 30/40-something man would never really socialize, except maybe in work. Now they’re on the same dating apps, and women can be much more “shallow” in the ways men used to be. And that’s just one angle. The 20-something guy who’s really great at JRPGs but not much else has to compete with a whole lot of other folks he didn’t have to compete with 20 or 30 years ago. I don’t know if it’s all good or all a bad thing, but I think it highlights that preferences in partners aren’t hardwired by gender. At least to me.

But it’s also a distraction from what the OP is really struggling with, which is more serious.
1 year

Dating women without physical attraction?

Munchies:
Here we have OP compare his plight to that of gay people and continue to ignore multiple women calling him out of his misogyny. He demands explanations that have already been given or rejects them outright because he doesn't like them and accuses people of ad hominem attacks were there were none.

You hate to see it.

X_Larsson:
You have not mentioned ONE factual quote where I slander, denigrate, hate, ridicule, diminish etc. Do that, please show where I have done so.

I don't CARE at all if you or anyone on the forum likes me or not, but I have not expressed any of the above things about anyone. I do care about truth, though.
Your feelings are not evidence.

If my posts are full of discrimination and lies, it would be super easy for you to find examples. Noone of you have presented such quotes yet.


Why not just work on making some close platonic friends of the opposite gender instead of arguing here? I think it would be healthy and instructive.
1 year

Dating women without physical attraction?

BustingButtons:
To me this all reads like someone trying to evade self evaluation. Talking about woken elsewhere, here and there whilst failing to tackle the objectification and fetishisation inhibiting their ability to find love.

It's like when smeone asked Speilberg about his movies and it was "I was going through a divorce and didn't want to do therapy ".

X_Larsson:
Feel free to explore this a bit more. Maybe you are on to something? I ask that you avoid talking about objectification and feederism as a fetish.

I am the opposite, highly emotionally invested and will never be attracted to a (good looking?) woman that behaves in a way that I find unpleasant.
Some ie think Lizzo is an attractive BBW (based on looks), while I find her directly offputting due to her lack of grace and sophistication.

But I am sure people here will now try to turn that as well against me.


Do you think the character she plays as an entertainer is who she is in private?
1 year

Dating women without physical attraction?

ForeverFFA:
Many people (yes, including myself, a woman) can empathize with the struggle to experience sexual attraction outside of this fetish. Shallow or not, I don't have a problem with anyone's personal choice to not keep trying to make anything else work. But there's a lot more that has been going on in this thread that makes me think that the OP would benefit from an attitude shift towards the humans that he is seeking relationships with.


On board with all of this
1 year

Dating women without physical attraction?

I explained right after the sentence you quoted that I think there are degrees of shallowness.

Malvineous:
Yeah, I agree that there are degrees of shallowness like you said, but I was asking to find out what is the bare minimum for someone to be considered shallow at all in your view?


I don’t think there’s a bare minimum. Everyone can be shallow sometimes. It’s never the greatest thing ever, but if you’re not outright hurting others or causing yourself harm it’s not a big deal.
1 year

Dating women without physical attraction?

Being attracted to tall men is shallow, but normal.


Wait, so what's your definition of shallow then? Is it being attracted to any physical characteristic or having any fetish?

I would also say that if you’re not interested in a romantic relationship with a person unless they’re specifically eager to gain weight for your sexual gratification, it might be worth taking a time out and assessing what’s going on. That feels to me like the point where a fetish is causing harm, not enhancing your life. But maybe not!

Malvineous:
That all depends on how rare your preferred partner is. It's preventing him from finding anyone in Sweden, but it might not in California. If his fetish were BDSM instead, he wouldn't have a problem anywhere. That's why he has to make a change if he doesn't want to end up forever alone. He has to sacrifice one of the two, either his fetish or his home. Either one will feel like a big loss, so it's up to him which he values more. If he has to suppress his fetish, it's never going away. He'll have to learn coping strategies and make peace with feeling unfulfilled in life. Also I wouldn't frame it like feedees are eager to gain weight for their partner's sexual gratification, they do it for their own sexual gratification, and they have shared goals with their feeder. Maybe that's just nitpicking semantics though, idk.


I explained right after the sentence you quoted that I think there are degrees of shallowness. Men are historically seen as being shallow based on physical appearance, but have also historically been allowed to behave that way without a lot of repercussion. That might be changing with women having a much larger dating pool due to technology.

I also suggested to the OP that he relocate, but he said no. I don’t know that moving is a guarantee of anything, either. A relationship is a 2 way transaction
1 year