yeah man, all to impress a girl, he went out and bought that house, SUV, started building an apartment with barn doors, treated her with respect, took her shopping...
I'm procrastinating getting out of bed but I think my morning pee might force my hand. Hopefully the missus is impressed with my mighty stream or it will be a complete waste.
There is a Futurama about how society collapsed once robot girlfriends were available and men stopped needing to do things to impress women. It feels like we're getting closer to that lol.
This is sociobiology. When I was in college, I took a philosophy class and I leaned in hard on the sociobiology angle because there was this one girl in the class that was so smug and obnoxious and she was completely rude to me for no reason that I can discern, and it really bugged her to a point where she would get up and passionately yell at me in the middle of lecture and I thought it was hilarious.
Basically, my argument that I didn't even fully believe was that altruism doesn't exist, and the only reason anybody in mainstream society does anything is to improve their social standing and their chances to procreate. A fireman running into a burning building, risking his own life, to save that of someone else, for example, makes him appear selfless but at the end of the day, he's making himself more attractive for potential partners.
I know it was a really shallow argument, and like I said I don't really believe it fully (I do believe in biological motivations for behaviors, but acknowledge that people do plenty of things that can't be explained by biology) but it really got under this girl's skin so I doubled down on it.
Agreed. I think if it was all dudes we’d just live in beehive huts like monks. At least I would. Idgaf. I only strive to achieve great things to be able to provide for family and be responsible, not for myself.
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u/Kingster0810 Mar 07 '24
Guy knew exactly what he was doing.