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the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

Piell posted:

AITA for not letting my son be in a photo that my daughter was not allowed in?

quote:

My BIL posted on FB that he was happy to see everyone but he wishes he could’ve gotten a family picture.

you got one, dipshit

really telling on himself here

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Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


carry on then posted:

It’s also why men being virgins past their early 20s (excluding physical/health, queerness, or religious reasons) is a huge red flag because it means they missed out on some extremely crucial growth and experience that they really should have at that age.

As someone who's just really unlucky in love, I think you're full of it.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

carry on then posted:

It’s a legit concern, lots of stories of women who go down on a virgin dude only for him to instantly become clingy and codependent due to his lack of experience. It’s absolutely valid to want to avoid this and women should feel more comfortable requiring experience in their partners.

It’s also why men being virgins past their early 20s (excluding physical/health, queerness, or religious reasons) is a huge red flag because it means they missed out on some extremely crucial growth and experience that they really should have at that age.

yeah everyone knows that once you have sex in your teens you automatically become a competent sex-haver and never develop or show any weird social behaviors around sex

a podcast for cats
Jun 22, 2005

Dogs reading from an artifact buried in the ruins of our civilization, "We were assholes- " and writing solemnly, "They were assholes."
Soiled Meat

carry on then posted:

It’s a legit concern, lots of stories of women who go down on a virgin dude only for him to instantly become clingy and codependent due to his lack of experience. It’s absolutely valid to want to avoid this and women should feel more comfortable requiring experience in their partners.

It’s also why men being virgins past their early 20s (excluding physical/health, queerness, or religious reasons) is a huge red flag because it means they missed out on some extremely crucial growth and experience that they really should have at that age.

I think this is a pretty good example of this thread often being far up its own rear end. Can't stop reading it tho.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

pentyne posted:

yeah everyone knows that once you have sex in your teens you automatically become a competent sex-haver and never develop or show any weird social behaviors around sex

It's a necessary but not sufficient condition of proving you are safe to get intimate with, which becomes very very important later in life. Remember that the worst a man has to worry about is rejection, the worst a woman has to worry about is being abused, violated, or killed.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
Ever sneeze so hard your arms hurt?

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

Reminder that people should not take carry on then seriously and falling for bait is a failure in internet literacy on your part.

Bonster
Mar 3, 2007

Keep rolling, rolling

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Ever sneeze so hard your arms hurt?

My mom popped a rib head out of place doing that once. Sneezes are dangerous, yo.

ETA: I treated a guy with traumatic brain injury who sneezed so hard he pitched forward, slammed his head on the table and knocked himself cold.

Sneeze carefully.

ranbo das
Oct 16, 2013


Remember men, if you haven't had sex before your mid 20s not only are you broken but also women will decide its not safe to be around you, because only sexual predators wait until they are ready to be intimate.

Happy International Men's Day!

limp_cheese
Sep 10, 2007


Nothing to see here. Move along.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

No, see, they want him to already not be a virgin. Someone else can go through the awkwardness of the first time and teach him what goes where and how to find the little man in the boat, they don't want to. All of the fun, none of the effort.

Sounds like my ex. Before I was with her I had only had sex twice and it was many years ago. I was for all intents and purposes a virgin. I was understandably nervous and would ask her for advice or guidance but she refused to give it. Usually with an excuse "Having sex is primal knowledge everyone just knows. You think lions need to be told how to have sex?" She would then get frustrated when I didn't know what I was doing. The worst was shen she wanted me to go down on her, which I was absolutely all for, but I couldn't see what I was doing because it was dark and I was trying to apply what I've seen in porn since she refused to give me advice or guide me. It didn't go well and she stopped me after a minute or two.

carry on then posted:

It’s a legit concern, lots of stories of women who go down on a virgin dude only for him to instantly become clingy and codependent due to his lack of experience. It’s absolutely valid to want to avoid this and women should feel more comfortable requiring experience in their partners.

It’s also why men being virgins past their early 20s (excluding physical/health, queerness, or religious reasons) is a huge red flag because it means they missed out on some extremely crucial growth and experience that they really should have at that age.

Its been long enough since I've had sex I've lost what little knowledge I had and am essentially a virgin at 35. Good to know that means I've lost my chance at sex and am an unfuckable loser.

deety
Aug 2, 2004

zombies + sharks = fun

the holy poopacy posted:

you got one, dipshit

really telling on himself here

If this was going on in my family, I'd point that poo poo out in the comments every single time the subject came up on his feed. Let all his FB friends know that he gets plenty of pics of the whole family but always wants to show off his nephews and exclude his nieces for some mysterious reason.

It won't stop the guy from being a sexist poo poo, but it might make him think twice about being so goddamn open about it. Or he might just block me. It'd be a win/win either way though.

deety fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Nov 19, 2021

Bonster
Mar 3, 2007

Keep rolling, rolling

limp_cheese posted:


Its been long enough since I've had sex I've lost what little knowledge I had and am essentially a virgin at 35. Good to know that means I've lost my chance at sex and am an unfuckable loser.

You had to find out sometime...

Crocobile
Dec 2, 2006

carry on then posted:

It’s a legit concern, lots of stories of women who go down on a virgin dude only for him to instantly become clingy and codependent due to his lack of experience. It’s absolutely valid to want to avoid this and women should feel more comfortable requiring experience in their partners.

It’s also why men being virgins past their early 20s (excluding physical/health, queerness, or religious reasons) is a huge red flag because it means they missed out on some extremely crucial growth and experience that they really should have at that age.

I’m a woman and surprisingly ran into the gender flipped version of this (didn’t have sex til 22 or 23). In college when people heard I was a virgin they’d either get WAY too excited or would immediately back off (one person said they “didn’t want to ruin me”).

When I got intimate with my first and told him I was inexperienced he had a similar reaction (didn’t want to “ruin” me, that obviously I’d get super clingy, that he didn’t want to waste time) and I had to loving argue with him about it. And then was surprised that I wasn’t TOTALLY clueless. I’ve hosed myself before dude, calm down.

In retrospect early 20s is a totally normal time and everyone else was just being weird and lovely. I have a lot of empathy for people who’ve just been unlucky.

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

You ever try to construct a scenario from reading the title to see how the consensus wound up someway and completely fail? This is such a case.


AITA For not letting my boyfriend use my dishes?

quote:

So a little back story. My boyfriend (20M) and I (20F) usually have dinners every weeknight together. I struggle with making food for myself but when it’s with him it’s easier and slightly fun. Lately I’ve been struggling to keep up with my dishes and they would sit in the sink ranging from days to weeks on end because I just can’t get the mental energy to deal with them. I’m in college and graduating this year and my classes are beating my rear end and so is my depression, so I came up with a solution to not have as many dishes in the sink. I only kept out 2 of everything like 2 plates, forks, spoons, bowls, and then only a few kitchen utensils like a spatula and a big spoon. I even bought styrofoam plates and plastic forks so if I’m not feeling like doing the dishes, I can use those.

So far it’s been working pretty well but since I cook with my boyfriend a lot I always have all of those dishes in the sink. He seemed to think that my strategy was pointless bc I’d just “end up letting it get disgusting again” because “that’s just how I am”. Anyways, one night he comes over for dinner but my two plates were already in the sink because I used them earlier. We make dinner with no problems and I pay the dishes no mind but when I asked him to serve the food on the styrofoam plates I bought he got really upset. He didn’t say a word after I asked him and went reaching for where I stored the other dishes that I wasn’t using, I asked him what he was doing and he said that he was getting us real plates for dinner.

I didn’t get why he was going for the ones I specifically put away and I said if you want real plate I can just wash one from the sink really quick. He denied letting me do that and insisted we use the plates from the ones I put away because in order for me to “get better” I had to use all of my dishes and then wash them. I told him no, That I had perfectly good plates we could use already out or we could use the styrofoam ones and that it wasn’t a huge deal. He told me I was being ridiculous and then started grabbing the other plates out of the cabinet. I tried to grab the stack of plates with bowls on top trying to get them back and he ended up letting go of the bottom and letting them drop to the ground. They shattered all around my feet and he just said “if you won’t use them then you don’t need them anyways” and he let himself out of my apartment. Luckily I was wearing shoes but my leg got a few cuts.

He proceeded to not talk to me for a few days and when he did he asked me if I was done being dramatic and blowing the situation out of proportion. I had texted him explaining I was super upset that he did that and that it was borderline crazy that he dropped them because he didn’t get the outcome he wanted. He told me I was the crazy one and that the plates just slipped and he didn’t even mean for them to cut me or fall, he was just trying to help me combat my depression and come out of it stronger.

UPDATE: I went and talked with him tonight at a restaurant to figure out if this was a one time thing or an indication to worse behavior in the future. I’ve decided that even if it was a one time thing I don’t really feel safe/I can trust him anymore. So at dinner I told him I’m gonna think about it but honestly I’m just going to text him and break up so I don’t have to deal with it In person. I still feel kind of bad breaking up a with him over dishes, but as many of you pointed out it’s much more serious than that.

Thank you to those who are PMing me, there’s quite a few but don’t worry I do plan on breaking things off with him. Any suggestions on how to do that safely?

UPDATE 2: I’ve decided to break up with him at some coffee shop tomorrow and I’m having my sister come and sit outside in case anything goes wrong.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

ranbo das posted:

Remember men, if you haven't had sex before your mid 20s not only are you broken but also women will decide its not safe to be around you, because only sexual predators wait until they are ready to be intimate.

Happy International Men's Day!

This is incredibly dismissive of women's very valid trepidation at getting intimate with someone due to the very real risk of serious harm.

The Maroon Hawk
May 10, 2008

limp_cheese posted:

Its been long enough since I've had sex I've lost what little knowledge I had and am essentially a virgin at 35. Good to know that means I've lost my chance at sex and am an unfuckable loser.

Not just that, you’re also apparently prone to be a violent predator and/or murderer!!! Better just not try ever again, really

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


carry on then posted:

Remember that the worst a man has to worry about is rejection, the worst a woman has to worry about is being abused, violated, or killed.

As a male who's been sexually assaulted by a woman who felt she was too attractive for my "no" to be legitimate and sincere, why don't you gently caress all the way off.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

extremely um *flips through twitter catchphrase glossary* colonialist of you to not understand that male virgins are virgins because they're rapists. Nice gaslighting, narcissist

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

If you think this is a double standard, congratulations on feeling one one trillionth of a percent of what women feel in patriarchical society. Work towards justice for women if you want the state of affairs to change.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
This feels like a weird thing considering you can be a virgin and just like lie.

If your going to sexually assault someone a small lie seems pretty easy.
L
It’s not like you can confirm it either way

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

somewhere out there there's an exact doppelganger of this dude with a goatee who calls everything he sees cucked and degenerate, and I hope someday they meet and kiss

ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008

carry on then posted:


It’s also why men being virgins past their early 20s (excluding physical/health, queerness, or religious reasons) is a huge red flag because it means they missed out on some extremely crucial growth and experience that they really should have at that age.

I really want to call this part out, despite the risk of mockery. My first time was late (turns out dating is really difficult when you're on the autism spectrum). I fully believed this, and the older I got, the more my mental health suffered, as I was worried that I had missed my chance and was going to be alone forever. Then I managed to connect with someone through a dating app and had a brief fling. I "caught up" rather quickly, continued dating, and ended up meeting someone a few months later that led to a healthy relationship that continues to this day.

So while it's valid if some people prefer more experienced partners, it shouldn't mean reinforcing the toxic beliefs that fuel incels.

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


"Saying men who haven't had enough sex are inherently defective in no way reinforces toxic masculinity and objectifies women. It actually fights the patriarchy. I am very smart."

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

somewhere out there there's an exact doppelganger of this dude with a goatee who calls everything he sees cucked and degenerate, and I hope someday they meet and kiss

"Actually, you must hate women, as proven by this person I made up in my head" is a hell of an accusation.

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror
if anyone does not understand by now that carry on then's whole entire gimmick over like three iterations of the relationships thread is posting like zombie Valerie Solanas feel free to take a look at their rap sheet

blackmet
Aug 5, 2006

I believe there is a universal Truth to the process of doing things right (Not that I have any idea what that actually means).

Nameless Pete posted:

All I know is that you never attend a party thrown by swingers, even if they promise you beforehand it's not that kind of party. Because they will invite all their swinger friends who can no longer appreciate the distinction.

Can confirm.

My partner lived with swingers for a bit. They threw a party when they moved into their new house, and mixed the family, kids, and grandkids with the swingers.

According to their daughter, it was awkward as hell and the next day, :nms: :nws: the hot tub had a film of ejaculate on the top. :nms: :nws:

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Tiny Bug Child posted:

if anyone does not understand by now that carry on then's whole entire gimmick over like three iterations of the relationships thread is posting like zombie Valerie Solanas feel free to take a look at their rap sheet

can't blame em much, responding to literally whatever with "wow, problematic much" over and over clearly is enough to keep an entire thread going on GBS

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
Come on guys, you're ruining National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day.

Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe
y'know how there's that thing where the irish/scottish/welsh/english all accuse each other of loving the sheep

those are the vibes I'm getting off this poly/swinger finger pointing.

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

Viriginity is the language of abusers

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


gently caress it, content:

AITA for telling my sister that if it wasn't for me her kid would be sick or dead.

quote:

A bit of context, I(18) am a cleaner in a hospital, it's a good paying job but the work is physically exhausting. As a result I have a nice bank balance. This is because I have been working 10+ hour days for 12 days straight. As I said physically exhausting. But I don't mind I adore my work and I get along well with most of my coworkers and the HCA's.

This began last week. I was checking my bank balance on my phone to ensure that (1) my wages had gone into my account and (2) that I had enough money to get my glasses and contact lenses.

Without my knowledge my sister was looking at my bank account over my shoulder while I was check my balance. I didn't notice because I was just after finishing a long and emotionally draining shift, that is a story all of it's own.

Come this monday I ask my sister if she would mind bringing me to my optitians appointment because I can't drive and the next train wasn't until after my appointment. She agreed to take me so all is good. That is until I do I bit of christmas shopping after my appointment and my sister is doing the same. I know my sister is struggling finacially so I advice her to add up what she is buying as she is going along, I know I know I shouldn't have given her advice she didn't ask for. She groans at me but didn't say anything.

I find out after we finish our shopping and are going home that my sister had to put a few thing back because she couldn't afford them. I didn't say "I told you so", frankly I didn't get the chance to because she said "I seen your bank account, you could have bought these for me and then we would be even and you would owe me nothing."

Another bit of context I raised my nephew for 6 months while my sister was supposedly working. I looked after him from 8am to 9pm, I quit my job and everything to look after him. I gave him breakfast when he arrived, lunch and dinner before he went home and he wouldn't be fed until I was looking after him the next day. I did all this for €15 a day, that didn't cover even half of my nephew's food bill. But I never complained, I stopped because I wanted to do more with my life and got a job.

Now back to the story, I stopped everything I was doing and looked at my sister. I told her that I owed her nothing, if anything she owes me six months of my life back. When she asked why, I told her that raising her child for 6 months was no easy feat considering I was a child myself and that if it weren't for me her child would be extremely sick or dead.

She was pissed at me and kicked me out of the car.

I feel like an rear end in a top hat because my sister was struggling finacially and she couldn't afford to pay me more. As well as she is pregnant again and I upset her really bad when I said what I did.

I am really conflicted on this, so reddit am I the rear end in a top hat?

Edit; I baught my sister and her family food as well as offered to buy her fuel as a payment of sorts. I didn't put this in earlier for word count reasons.

Edit 2, it has come to my attention that I'm not very good at spelling.

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


Dazerbeams posted:

Reminder that people should not take carry on then seriously and falling for bait is a failure in internet literacy on your part.

Nah, I assume everyone is sincere on the Internet. :)

But only once.

nashona
May 8, 2014

Though she be but little, she is fierce


Soylent Pudding posted:

gently caress it, content:

AITA for telling my sister that if it wasn't for me her kid would be sick or dead.

r/relationships: it has come to my attention that I'm not very good at spelling

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

ranbo das posted:

Remember men, if you haven't had sex before your mid 20s not only are you broken but also women will decide its not safe to be around you, because only sexual predators wait until they are ready to be intimate.

Happy International Men's Day!
oh my god is it actually international men's day

I only know it's "sometime in november"

Dik Hz
Feb 22, 2004

Fun with Science

ponzicar posted:

So while it's valid if some people prefer more experienced partners, it shouldn't mean reinforcing the toxic beliefs that fuel incels.
Why are people other than the incels themselves responsible for the incels' behavior?

When confronted with the realization that most cishet women prefer experienced partners, the healthy response is "I'll demonstrate I'm safe and not clingy in other ways" not "I'm a sad broken individual doomed to be an incel."

elise the great
May 1, 2012

You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Virginity in an adult, like an Ayn Rand book on the shelf, is a big red flag. It’s not a dealbreaker. Context is critical: do they have the book because they’re a student of economic ethics who studies the ills of capitalist society and the fallacies that draw people into libertarian individualism? Are they a virgin at 25 because they escaped a terrible family and spent years focusing on therapy and building their own life?

Or are they a neurotic, entitled, codependent beartrap that will close on your labia and/or wallet?

ghost emoji
Mar 11, 2016

oooOooOOOooh
AITA for giving my mom the money for cancer treatment, without telling my wife? (self.AmItheAsshole)

quote:

Breast Cancer treatment is expensive, and my parents don’t have the money to pay for it. I didn’t ask my wife beforehand because she doesn’t like my parents. And I didn’t want to cause any problems since there was no way I wasn’t gonna pay for it. I gave them 50k to cover all the eventual costs (hopefully, and yes, I know about gift tax) but if they need more then all they have to do is ask.

I guess my wife must’ve noticed it was missing, I didn’t think she’d notice so quickly. But she was pretty upset. Finally I just had to tell her to shut up, because basically she was berating me over not letting my mom die from cancer. Like wtf, she’s literally talking about how the money could be used on our future. Cool, I’ll make more, but I’m not just gonna let my mom die so you can have more spa days.

Added information:

• all of our accounts are co-owned, so all money is, “shared”. Except the 1 account that’s in her name only, and gets 10% of everything I earn deposited into it.

• I’m the sole earner, but I don’t really care about that. Since I’ve got the financial part covered and the last thing I’m looking for in a partner is financial contributions. Couldn’t care less about it.

• I love my wife very much

my wife probably won't notice this missing fifty thousand dollars for at least a week or two!

elise the great
May 1, 2012

You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Like I think we can all agree that virginity isn’t nearly as bad as being a goon lmfao

Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004
Without net worth info there's really no way to call this. Is this all their savings or just 5%

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RenegadeStyle1
Jun 7, 2005

Baby Come Back
I mean I do get part of it. She's basically saying "you should have let your mom die we could pay the house off faster"

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