I invite anyone who thinks I took the comments to mean something they didn't to investigate the context for themselves. Watch out for edit symbols.
It's not a pre-existing belief. I came to the belief just now and supported my belief with evidence from your comment history at which point I exclaimed, "holy fuck, I really need to read people's comment history before voting them into community moderation." Literally.
Again, I don't say you're a monster, but you've characterized yourself that way by proxy of my statements twice now. Get in therapy.
Since you invited me to do so, here are some choice selections from your comment history:
virtue signalling has been around since forever. Pascal talked about it in the 16th century dude. the bible talks about it.
the phrase is not disingenuous. it’s about those for whom virtual is merely a signal, not an act. for those who preach, but don’t practice. for those whom virtue would have no meaning other than social recognition. it’s about ‘scoring good person points’. it’s the moral/political equivalent of buying a rigged-out Jeep and going on about how into off-roading you are when you use it as a commuter car. You are desperately trying to signal to others something that isn’t true about yourself.
Tell me more about how you don't use the internet to moralize. Even your framing of "insane misogynistic asshole" as "evil" betrays your moralization and the reason for it. I don't think you're evil, I think you're a jerk who lacks even self-empathy, needs therapy and has no business moderating a dating community.
‘fellas, would you rather open up emotionally to a woman or a tree?’
we’d all choose the tree. because even if the tree can’t acknowledge or listen, it won’t attack us for having emotions.
Do I need to explain to my audience how this is misogynistic?
and yes, dating is full of hypocrisy. the people who tell you that money and jobs don’t matter, are always the one who judge everyone else for their job and money. ugly people only want to date hot people, poor people only want to date rich people, etc etc.
Speak for yourself, buddy. Ditto the previous quote.
99.9% of people are self absorbed. very few care about anything other themselves and their immediate emotional gratification.
I don't think I've ever come across a commenter who had such a propensity for bitching about other people, and in such blanket generalizations lacking all self-awareness or any sense of irony.
you realize talking like you do about this topic to any normal person will make them hate you instantly?
the ratio tho
I could go on, but this is easy and boring. Having done that tedious exercise, I find reason to pity you. You habitually project your own inadequacies and shortcomings onto others. You pretend you're just so above it all, while the amount you actually care is betrayed by the amount you write and your persistence in the face of extreme social backlash. I think you hate yourself most of all and shit on everyone else as a way of making your opinion of yourself improve by the comparison. Hence the projection.
Holy fuck, I really need to read people's comment history before upvoting their mod requests, because turns out you're an insane misogynistic asshole I've voted into modding a dating community. Good thing the community is dead and you're extremely ostentatious about your abhorrent beliefs and the effect they have on women. Let this be a lesson to me.
for my part, im tired of: being laughed at; looked at as if i have 2 heads; people just kinda vaguely agreeing saying something to the effect of 'it is what it is'; legitimate criticism, whether agreed with or not being deferred with 'just wait for 2026' as if the election itself wasnt suspect; or just being plain ol, flat out ignored by self-proclaimed 'organizers' who quit after 2 months.
call me a rat if you want, i want off this sinking ship. its refusal to rescue itself and complete breakdown of social fabric that would allow such a thing to take place is the biggest reason why.
In my experience, if you can't explain a thing, it's usually because you don't understand it; that ability to explain is practically what it is to understand a thing (with notable exceptions for eg. language difficulties, or for simple hand-eye tasks), which this shrugging abdication(abnegation?) of explanation does not even pretend to try to attempt.
I haven't looked back since I made the switch.