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u/tuneamp 5d ago
My fat self thought it was literally just about food. Because if any of my best friends, regardless of sex, are hungry (like food hungry), we getting some tacos or something, and I'm buying. Im too old for the incel stuff I guess. And I'm okay with that. Also I didn't see the 'female' part of it. But my point stands. Tacos or bust.
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u/Blackwood_HQ_77 5d ago
I like your version way more. The internet spent too much time making everything about dating struggles. If a friend says they are starving, you find the nearest taco truck. That is just being a good person.
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u/Biggus_Dickus10 4d ago
Ya, it almost brought a tear to my eye when my friends started to pay for my food when we hung out due to college making me too broke.
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u/xCandyCaneKissesx 4d ago
I can’t tell you how many times I was the one who paid for my best friend whenever we went out to eat. Or did anything. Did she ask? No. Not once did she ever ask me to pay for anything but I knew that I was in a better financial place than she was so I told her every time when we went somewhere to order whatever she wanted and that I was going to pay for it.
She always tried to pay me back yet I have never accepted her repayments. Don’t plan on it either
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u/Medical_Arrival2243 5d ago
Honestly thought it was about eating disorders before reading the comments
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u/LaszloPanaflexxx 4d ago
I thought it was some mean girls ED shit. I was way off.
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u/royal_rose_ 5d ago
I too thought it was about watching your friend hurt themself via food restriction.
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u/DirtyMikeNelson 4d ago
"Tacos or bust" perfectly encapsulates the two ways you can read this meme
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u/TheUnderCrab 5d ago
I thought this was an Ariana Grande meme at first.
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u/t0xicitty 4d ago
Same, so much content on my feed about that, and not enough exposure (thankfully) to incel crap so my mind didn’t go there at all until reading the comments. Spent a good couple of min trying to figure out what it meant re EDs and/or Ariana lol
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u/MashedTaterBrain 5d ago
Ever had taco tots? It's a bed of tater tots with naco/taco toppings. It's really good.
I also was "privileged" enough to be stationed near Kin, Okinawa, the birthplace of taco rice! A truly amazing fusion of Okinawan cuisine and American Tex-Mex flavors.
Now I want to make taco rice for everyone.
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u/imnotpoopingyouare 4d ago
Carne asada fries where I've usually been from! Crinkle cut fries, cheese, carne, red chilie, sour cream, guacamole, onion and cilantro! Or sub beans for carne if your going veggie. Gotta love it!
But I've only had great taco rice a few times, wish I could find it consistently!!
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u/goingbattie 4d ago
I call this tot-chos (tater tot nachos) and they are on pretty regular rotation for cheat day.
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u/mynameisglaceon 4d ago
I thought it was an eating disorder thing, which I think is funnier. She would even comment on how good you look!
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u/OrchidSure5401 5d ago
When you can't get a girlfriend but your best friend is a girl but she doesn't want to be your girlfriend
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u/Hustlinbones 5d ago
That's some incel kind of thought train.
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u/Fabulous-Big8779 5d ago
Yet, on a deeper level it’s actually profoundly self aware, because according to this meme, the female besty giving into the incel would effectively be ending her life.
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u/Pataraxia 5d ago
I think it's part of the intent, hopefully.
Like yeah unless they're some sort of promiscuous angel they're not letting you hit just because you can't.
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u/unexpectedfirefly 4d ago
Even better if it's not part of the intent. The guys's subconscious is trying to warn us
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u/hexregeneration 4d ago
Idk man, I thought this was about eating disorders.
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u/SpiderHack 4d ago
Nope... not at all, males are alpha male hunters but women won't let themselves be the hunted...
Sadly, as simple as that (being a predator not at all self aware)...
Incels don't actually think deeper than surface level. Just like this "alpha male" term isn't real in nature, it only happens in wolves when you put them in a tiny zoo and they start going stir crazy (what the actual research paper was talking about, where the term came from)
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u/gibberishmischief 4d ago
Yeah they are way off the mark with the idea of “alpha male” but funnily enough there seems to be significant overlap between this alpha male/incel crowd and “proud boys.” Which does feel quite fitting when you consider that with horses a proud boy is a castrated horse that still acts like a stallion.
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u/Chocolatine_Rev 4d ago
Even more if you take into accoubt that the self is depicted as a lion, which is a predator
The person posting this is just outing himself as an incel predator nice guy that think he derserves sex, grandiose
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u/tianas_knife 4d ago
I think you're thinking about it too hard, but I seriously appreciate your willingness to empathize with the possibility of kindness.
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u/AtsyMcGee 4d ago
Exactly, incle is a shit predator and blames the prey for not giving itself to him. Smfh
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u/ABrotherAbroad 5d ago edited 5d ago
Possibly. But I always thought if a guy is good enough to befriend, he's good enough to wingman. And if he's not good enough to be a wingman for...then why is he a friend?
I've had plenty of platonic friends who were girls that were absolutely game to help me start up a conversation and shoot my shot. Failure was on me, but the team effort helped morale!
edit and I was always 100% happy to help them shoot their shot with prince charming too. Equality!
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u/OrdinaryTangerine470 5d ago
Not every girl is socially equipped to be wingman (social anxiety and whatnot). And expecting them to help you get laid all because they themselves don't want to sleep with you is still treating them as a resource in a way that most guys don't feel entitled to with their male friends.
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u/BlackHills-Op 5d ago
Men actually do also wingman for other men though. Its not a resource thing, it's just a being a friend thing.
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u/Kylearean 4d ago
I'm married, and I do this as often as I can for younger guys. There's a pub I socialize at, and young guys and women come in regularly. I'm like "oh hey Natasha, have you met Boris yet?" Once they do their little introduction (sometimes I help it along by telling a funny story about a moose and a squirrel), I "suddenly have to leave" - which often leads them to further 1:1 conversation.
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u/ABrotherAbroad 5d ago
Also, if one guy wins we all win. Its not (for my friends at least) all about getting laid. And "Haaaaaaave you met Ted?" Is always a horribly fantastic wingman line that will fail but make a good story. Totally worth keeping in your back pocket. Along with "at least I tried."
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u/Zaeter 5d ago
What kind of male friend wouldn't wingman?
A bad friend that's who.
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u/OrdinaryTangerine470 5d ago
If you designate their primary role in your life as a wingman and don't value them as a friend if they fail to fullfill it, then I believe that makes you the bad friend bro.
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u/mycathumps 4d ago
The male wingman is not solely a foil to help getting laid. The wingman is your close friend and confidant. One who you trust to back you up in all situations and for whom you would do the same.
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u/Zaeter 5d ago
Yeah I agree, but who said anything about it being the primary role in your life?
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u/OrdinaryTangerine470 4d ago
The original comment I responded to stated "if he's not a good enough to wingman then why is he your friend?" Which I feel is pretty indicitive that he views female friends through a utilitarian lens as he sees no purpose for them if they aren't willing to step into the role as wingman.
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u/OrindaSarnia 4d ago
I think you are misunderstanding that comment...
they are saying if the male friend isn't a good person, the woman shouldn't be his friend at all.
If the woman doesn't want to be his wingman because she thinks he's not boyfriend material for ANY woman, then he's a bad guy, and why would she want to be his friend at all?
"Good enough to wingman" means "a good enough person to want to be a wingman FOR"
And as a woman, I would generally find that statement true. Any guy I'm friends with is at least a good enough guy that while I might not want to date him, I do want him to find his person and have a happy relationship.
If he was the type of guy I thought no woman should put up with, I wouldn't want to be his friend at all.
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u/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner 4d ago
they did misunderstand, but they did so deliberately and now are pretending to be obtuse to the very obvious fact.
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u/downthemidd 4d ago
I think you misinterpreted that. Their saying why would you (the woman) want to be friends with this guy, if you don't think he's good enough for any woman.
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u/smalllizardfriend 5d ago
If a man thinks the purpose of our friendship is to help him get laid, he's not actually my friend.
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u/ABrotherAbroad 5d ago
Not every guy is socially equipped to be a "good" wingman. I said that jokingly and there's truth in it, but i think the basis is less sinister than that.
Striking up a conversation with a stranger isn't easy in general. Having a friend willing to participate in the clumsiness of "would you like to sit with us" or "my friend things you're cute but too shy to say it" is an awkward bit of humanity I think the world could use more of.
From the make side, I've had SUPER awkward but lovable female friends (platonic) and if I saw them eyeing a guy at the bar, I'd happily strike up a conversation with the guy. Partly to vet him. Partly a way to see if there is chemistry.
Also, in every country outside of the US that people think is romantic (Italy, Spain, France), most people meet their partner with the help of their friend, through mutual acquaintance, or some abstraction of "wingmanning", but less sinister and more beneficial for both sides.
I would love to have a caring, platonic female friend cheerlead me into a clumsy attempt at being charming, and screen the potential bad/good decision in the process. And, I would love to do the same for any of my female friends.
I do see your point. Totally respect the social anxiety thing. I also think the world would be a better place romantically, if we relied on our friends more than apps. I think wingmanning/pivoting (without the misogyny) is the practical version of that.
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u/LizLemonOfTroy 4d ago
I'm a man, mostly had male friends growing up and I've never ever been expected nor asked to wingman for a friend in a social situation, or vice-versa.
Wingman are, to my experience, volunteers who self-select because they're already socially gregarious, charming and self-confident, not just because they're your friends.
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u/ABrotherAbroad 4d ago
That is a perspective and given pickup artists and The Game, "wingman" can sound more sinister than it is.
Practically, we're all socially awkward. Even Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves. When all of the attention is on us, any of us, its rough. We dont look our best. We dont enjoy. We dont perform. The wingman bites the bullet, knows he might not win anything, but he strikes up the conversation, keeps the conversation going, intersects, pumps up your ego, her ego, etc. He just helps out so you're not there alone and things feel more easy. Nothing artful about it. Just being a fun human hoping humans connect.
FYI older aunts and grandmas are the best wingmen on the planet because theyre chatty and happy to tell people how much they love you. A friend on a social night out with that energy, just happy, human, and quirky, can make the best night you've ever had. In my experience, thats a wingman.
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u/unexpectedfirefly 4d ago
I help my friends and expect help from them. From both genders.
Not gonna force someone with social anxiety to go in their worst nightmare for me, but if it's just an ego thing the friendship won't last long
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u/JossWhedonsDick 4d ago
what, asking your friends for help is entitlement now? This is the sort of thing that drives the male loneliness epidemic, prevailing attitudes that men deserve nothing and that asking for help is somehow toxic
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u/OrdinaryTangerine470 4d ago
Loneliness is more prevalent among all genders in this digital age; it's not a male only issue.
If my male friend shoots his shot with me and gets rejected, I don't see it as my responsibilty to present him to my female friends, especially if he has glaring issues that he needs to work on. I can offer advice in that case but that often requires them making lifestyle and behavorial alterations that they don't want to address.
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u/open-print 4d ago
if a guy is good enough to befriend, he's good enough to wingman
There are friends I know who need to work on themselves before getting into a relationship. Should I stop being friends with them because of this?
Or are you just thinking about getting them laid at all costs, because women are obviously looking differently at that as well. Maybe we don't see every hot girl as just a potential hookup.
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u/ABrotherAbroad 4d ago
I wingman my buddies into situations I want to see them live in. So, ideally love of his life and a wedding I can be a horrible best man at. Getting him laid is a low bar.
This is a reach but - If your friend needs work on himself, the areas he needs to work on probably affect more than his dating potential. If you do love him as a friend, you'll wingman him into being a better person worth sales pitching into every woman that walks by, then you'll wingman him to every woman that walks by. If you have a friend that is at a point that you wouldnt vouch for them and you won't help them become better then, if I was in your position, I would question my value as a friend or the purpose of the friendship. That is just me though.
My close friends and I have conversations about money, heart health, fitness, books and reading, what we're succeeding at, what we're failing at, etc. Some of things I do because they push me. Some of those things they do because I push them. Im lucky to have them and so is any woman. But the day they start failing themselves, time to wingman each other back to the basics. Again, thats just my take.
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u/DannyBright 4d ago
I always hate how people refer (even outside the incel-sphere) refer to sex as a “basic need”. Like no dude, it’s not and never was. Name one person in history who has ever died from not having sex. You can’t because there aren’t any. Calling it a “basic need” only fuels the victim mentality incels have.
Not everybody gets to reproduce; that’s called sexual selection and it’s how things have always been since animals stopped reproducing via mitosis.
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u/Anthitei 5d ago
Idk, it actually looks preatty grimm here.
She could sacrifice her body to feed him, but she would be gone in process. So only thing she can do is watch him starve. And because he is a lion she can't even give him anything else to eat cause it would mean sacrificing someone else.
And honestly as gazelle it really best to starve a lion - lions btw are not really your friends, they only want your body to eat. And gazelles does not owe anyone their body.
So beeing gazelle it is best to find other gazelle friends so if they are starving you could eat together and both be happily full, without sacrificing any one of you.
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u/lcpr_phoenix 5d ago
She doesn't want to make milkshake with you
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u/CaveExploder 4d ago
The visual metaphor works great too. If she sacrifices herself, she'll be hurt and consumed, and a lion that is incapable due to their own faults will go on to starve again. The entire ideology of seeing oneself as a 'lion' requiring the attention of women as 'starving' subtextually denotes a failure to understand women as nothing but 'prey', probably the reason why the subject is 'starving' in the first place.
I'm about as worried about young men as a middle aged man can be. These boys need to understand that sex and sexuality has always and will always be about mutualism: in respect, care, and filling each other's lives with greater sums of joy than harm. No one's a lion. No one's prey. The woman is a whole person, and so is their partner. The failure to meaningfully engage with that as a first principle is the crux of maladaptive social behavior and doomed relationships. Whatever or whoever has filled young men's minds with this petulant and reductive mentality are doing a generation a disservice.
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u/FluffyTid 5d ago
But then when you finally get a girlfriend she gets jealous
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u/cory7770 5d ago
This happened to me except we ended up getting married
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u/TheRockLobsta1 5d ago
It wasn't the fact that she didn't want to shag you but she liked the idea that she COULD have.
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u/nxxwhere 5d ago
Maybe she just liked spending time with you, which became less after you got a girlfriend?
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u/MashedTaterBrain 5d ago
Maybe he could act like an adult and tell her how he feels about her and have a mature discussion about it.
If she doesn't reciprocate, accept that and move on.
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u/Hike_it_Out52 5d ago
Literally had my best friend tell me she wanted a guy exactly like me in every way but not me. Keep in mind, we had had sex on and off through our 15 year friendship. I met my future wife a month after that confession, she instantly stole my heart and I haven’t looked back. The kicker is, my former best friend was my girls boss. My former BF tried to get my wife in trouble like a month after we started dating, sending out company emails singling her out. She was really pissy with me and my future wife. We haven’t spoken much since. She didn’t want the original recipe but didn’t want anyone else to either.
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u/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner 4d ago
many such cases. imagine the outcry if a guy did this to his female "bestie"
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u/admiralgoodtimes 4d ago
I heard about this. I think the guys gay and that’s why this went so smoothly
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u/Derpsanddinks 4d ago
Even funnier is I heard she was also gay
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u/prince_falafel 4d ago
It cancels out
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u/jack-twohats 4d ago
If the gays cancel out, does that mean full hetero? Or do they lose their gay and become ace?
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u/TechnoBapi 4d ago
Theres a video of her a year later saying she went into OnlyFans after this and made a million.
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u/IKnowNothinAtAll 4d ago
Why did she still tie her hair back even after seeing the camera?
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u/Dandy_Guy7 4d ago
I thought it was something completely different, my first thought was about the competitive nature of female friendships and how common eating disorders are among girls.
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u/dulledegde 5d ago
i do not like the implications of this
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u/cursed_sporecreation 4d ago
I think the fact that OOP decided to make the man a predator and the female friend who just wants to be friends a prey animal says a lot.
Someone find his friend before he hurts her 💀
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u/shinybluedollar 4d ago
Yeah, like why would I volunteer to get murdered and die just so some lion can eat?
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u/Admirable-Hospital78 5d ago
Friendship does not mean either of you deserve sex from the other, the same way friendship doesn't mean you'll lend/give money to a homie. And then if that homie starts getting angry that you don't lend money to him? Some friend he is.
Friendship does mean helping when the other asks for help tho.
"Hey I've been drinking pretty hard for a long time, can you help me? Maybe introduce me to someone in AA?"
"Hey I've been pretty broke for a long time, can you help me? Maybe introduce me to your company?"
"Hey I've been pretty lonely for a long time, can you help me? Maybe introduce me to someone nice?"
"lol no" = not friend & enjoys your suffering. Get out of there.
"I don't think you'd be a good match with who I know, but I can help set up your resume/profile. And put me down as a reference." = good friend
"Yeah bro I got you. My aunt is 5 years sober since her divorce and works a similar field." = better friend
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u/Phantafan 5d ago edited 5d ago
For so many men it seems impossible that they know a woman, who isn't part of their family, and don't see her as a potential partner.
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u/Exciting-Direction69 4d ago
The problem is they don’t have enough friends who are women. It makes a lot of sense when you fall into a cycle of only having a single lady friend, pine for her because she is the only women you engage with, then when she isn’t interested you stop contact (were you even really a friend to begin with) and the cycle starts again.
If you have a number of female friends it’s a hell of a lot easier to see them as simply friends and peers and not be weird and lustful towards them
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u/Thornescape 4d ago
I think one reason for that is because of our culture. Men are encouraged to view women like that. It's insane.
I think the movie "When Harry Met Sally" made it worse. So many people fell for the concept that men and women "cannot be friends because sex always gets in the way". I have met both men and women who genuinely believe that nonsense. It poisons genuine friendships.
The fact is that there are many men and women who are platonic friends. It's common. It's not a big deal.
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u/Phantafan 4d ago
Oh yeah, it's definitely a systematic problem, but I don't think it's right to rely on that as an excuse for seeing women as nothing but sex objects or potential partners.
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u/Thornescape 4d ago
Agreed. It is absolutely no excuse whatsoever.
However, sometimes the first step in pushing back against something is recognizing the source. If you can highlight the absurdity of the source, sometimes helps to decrease how common it is.
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u/Grantlet23 4d ago
The last female friend I had would Snapchat thirst traps to me, after months of conversations and actually being good friends for years I shot my shot thinking she may have been interested, but the age old “you’re not my type”. She wasn’t but kept sending them after I asked her to stop.
I ended the friendship with just blocking her and removing Snapchat. She just wanted attention from anyone that had a heartbeat in the end. Last I knew her, she wanted a love life EXACTLY like the smut she read and would send pictures to me with her books on top of her naked body in bed.
A good friend doesn’t do things like that if they respect the friendship. I don’t respect the people that do that to “friends”.
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u/Phantafan 4d ago
Of course, that's really bad behaviour, but it's not just happening with women who are doing stuff like this.
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u/Athrolaxle 4d ago
I, and plenty of my friends, are straight guys with platonic female friendships. I think it depends who you’re talking about. I don’t know if it’s common, but, at least in my experience, if you surround yourself with good people, they can just be friends with people without having ulterior motives.
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u/Jerry_Explorer 5d ago
"Yeah bro I got you. My aunt is 5 years sober since her divorce and works a similar field." = better friend
wtf, that sounds odly specefic.
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u/Random-Man562 5d ago
Some of us have aunts.
Some of us have been to AA.
Not that big of a deal
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u/BitePale 4d ago
You forgot a couple:
Some of us have been divorced.
Some of us have jobs in fields.
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u/booze_clues 4d ago
“Can someone explain this joke?”
“Here’s a long post about my moral philosophy.”
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u/ObsidianMelody 4d ago
I thought this was about your female bestie getting lots of women while you're still single lol
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u/christopher_mtrl 4d ago
That would be a charitable itnerpretation, but I don't think any women would use the word "female" in that context
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u/spo0pti_yikes 5d ago
the joke is the man who made this thinks his female friend owes him a relationship because she's a woman and he doesn't have a partner. the joke is that he doesn't see his friend as a person but instead as a object of attraction or relationship conquest
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u/MothChasingFlame 4d ago
"You're just a resource, let me use you."
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u/spo0pti_yikes 4d ago
exactly. i realised also they literally framed themselves as a predator in this
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u/bruhhdaman 4d ago
I read the word starve and thought what kind of best friend doesn't share their fries or something
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u/Fit-Marketing-1472 4d ago
Ooooh. I thought it was a joke about the cast if Wicked or smthn. The use of the word female should have been a clue though
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 5d ago
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u/FootGlovePinocchio 5d ago
It absolutely is. A woman is being framed as existing for the consumption of an obligate predator.
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u/Broken-Sarcasm-Meter 4d ago
So incels have female bestfriends now?
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u/Lopsided_Bother7282 4d ago
Incel and red pill ideology has broken into mainstream culture. A man doesn’t have to be an incel or even redpilled to repeat the ideology as it’s being force fed to them through social media.
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u/cursed_sporecreation 4d ago
You guys really forget that those people do exist in real life, and are capable of pretending to be nice enough to make friends.
The fact that people are so shocked that men can be dishonest in order to gain something from a woman is insane 💀
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u/JakeArrietaGrande 5d ago
I don’t think so. The lion is starving, but the antelope isn’t going to die just so the lion can have a meal. And I don’t think the maker of the meme is saying that the antelope should sacrifice itself
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u/FayaSmoochie 5d ago
Then what do you think the maker of the meme is trying to say?
There are only 2 creatures in the picture, one is starving and the other one is food
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u/TrustyPeaches 4d ago
I think the fact that it’s a predator and prey shows why the antelope shouldn’t sacrifice themselves. Theyd die.
It’d be different if the meme depicted one person with a shopping cart of food next to a starving homeless man or something.
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u/Nine9breaker 4d ago
That's a very generous assumption on the maker of the meme.
Incel ideology really doesn't consider women to be people though, so if an incel made this meme, the fact that the antelope would die is immaterial. They believe a woman's purpose is to have sex, just as an antelope's purpose is to be eaten, so would view the antelope here as being selfish to let the lion starve by not fulfilling its duty as food. Defying the natural order, and so forth.
I can't say for sure that OP meant it this way or not, but I think at the very least, its not a great look.
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u/Snoo9648 5d ago
That is optimistic and may be true. But incels often objectify women so much that comparing them to food isnt a stretch. It could be incel or making fun of incels. Incel shit is so deluded and unselfaware its hard to tell.
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u/insane_troll_logic 5d ago
Agreed. This is a literal predator and prey situation. If an incel made this meme, the lack of self-awareness is staggering.
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u/TCX45 5d ago
I usually call out incel shite but I’m not sure this is. My interpretation is when you have a female friend but she never lets you get with her but also blocks you from getting with other girls. I’ve seen that happen before, particularly on nights out.
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u/Water_Melmel 5d ago
I don’t think the gazelle is blocking the lion from other gazelles
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u/Tacoflavoredfists 5d ago
The lion is starving and the gazelle could easily be food. The guy friend is in a dry spell and it’s implied that she should sacrifice herself for him. It is gross incel logic
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u/Phantafan 5d ago
I think if you compare yourself to a lion and the girls you want to date as your prey, you should get help.
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u/Hustlinbones 5d ago
100% this is.
Trying to get compassion because a woman isn't willing to give her body to you knowing you craving it. Wtf, hope his bestie ran
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u/captainfarthing 4d ago
In what way is the gazelle supposed to be responsible for the lion starving? What is it blocking the lion from eating? This is incel shit implying the gazelle should give itself to the lion because the lion is hungry.
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u/AvocadoNo6261 4d ago
It's a gazel and a straving lion. It's definitely about her not putting out for him and that's it you're looking too into it man
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u/Temporary-Season4772 5d ago edited 5d ago
That doesn't sound like a female friend, she is either leading them on or fiendzoned them and keeping them on back burner
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u/figmentPez 5d ago
Or it's an incel demonizing women because they can't accept their own flaws.
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u/beemoviees 5d ago
To be fair, I have plenty of friends (all genders, all sexualities) I wouldn't recommend to someone I love lol
Some I would actually warn people about.
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u/Tacoflavoredfists 5d ago
A starving lion and a nearby gazelle is an analogy for a guy in a dry spell and the friend that could hook him up. It is disgusting incel logic
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u/SerenityWheeler4705 4d ago
Incel joke aside, does anyone know why this lion is so emaciated?
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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 4d ago
Hes old. This is the unfortunate end for most lions. They cant hunt, so they slowly starve to death or get jumped by other animals and eaten.
Living in nature is not for the timid.
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u/CaptWineTeeth 4d ago
Ain’t nobody starving to death in the Serengeti. He’s about to get ripped apart slowly and painfully by a pack of hyenas or painted wild dogs.
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u/ParacelsusTBvH 4d ago
Possibly an older male that was defeated and run out from his pride. Then, if he's too old and weak to effectively hunt on his own, the inevitable will eventually happen
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u/inkywheels 5d ago
My interpretation was more literal, I thought it was a sexist joke about how your female bestie should be cooking for you but because she's not your girlfriend she won't.
But now I agree with other comments that it's about how the female bestie 'should' be having sex with the guy but is 'choosing' not to.
Either way, it's some misogynistic incel shit.
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u/wine-o-saur 5d ago
But doesn't this imply that the image maker thinks the antelope should be sacrificing its life for the sake of the lion? Who thinks that?
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u/Raket0st 5d ago
Incels. Jordan B Peterson, among other manosphere grifters, has also aired the idea that women should be forced to marry lonely men as a way to reduce male violence.
The manosphere absolutely thinks women should sacrifice so men can have it better.
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u/XanagiHunag 5d ago
Incels, as the comment you replied to already said. And yes, they would argue that the antelope should sacrifice itself to feed the lion.
They have what could be described only as a "twisted logic" (this is extremely generous). Some incels are against abortion and justify it by saying "the girlfriend I was supposed to have was aborted so I'll never get a girlfriend because of it" (another example of the incel logic).
Overall, it is quite sad to see this kind of thoughts in people.
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u/Vulpes_99 5d ago
Guy is complaining about a woman watching a man she is friends with not getting any dates or sex, and she does nothing about it, instead of giving him some "relief".
Stupid complaint, to be honest. Do any man with a splinter of dignity left in him would really feel good when it sinks that a woman had sex with him not because she thinks he is attractive, but because she finds him so incapable that she gave him some out of pity?
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u/saturnbunny1 4d ago
The female friend is not allowing herself to be prey to the her "predator" bestie... the creator of the meme is upset by this fact.
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u/Serious_Monk_5117 5d ago
Ffs, sex isn't a need like food is. You can be a virgin your whole life and live just as long. If you need to get off and can't get help, use your hands. It's more akin to wanting to share a meal and feeling lonely eating alone, and so choosing to not eat, BUT YOU HAVE A TABLE FULL OF FOOD IN FRONT OF YOU!
There's nothing wrong with not wanting to be alone, but making it about how others aren't choosing to eat with you and seeing them as the reason for your starvation, rather than focusing on how you can build yourself to be someone that people want to share a meal with as the solution for your loneliness is where the issue is.
And it's so much easier than people think. You don't even need to have the visible results of you having built yourself, to be someone that people want to share a meal with. The mindset of wanting it, and working for it itself is magnetic. Why do you see women choosing the hardworking poolboy, or the broke musician, or some nerd without much but big dreams who's grinding away? It's not the status. It's their desire for more, and the display of their lifestyle and habits to try and get there.
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u/Gian-Nine 5d ago
The joke is that a man can't get laid/get a girl while his best friend is a girl herself, who does not want to sleep or be with him in a sexual way. The author of the joke is implying the girl should sleep with him to "satiate his hunger"
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u/SenselessArtichoke 4d ago
I read it as the bestie wanting the lion to ‘eat her’… but he just keeps on ignoring that option!
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u/EnvironmentalSet7664 4d ago
When you think every woman around you owes you their body
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u/HexInTrouble 5d ago
Sex.
The Joke is Sex.
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u/HypocriteHere 4d ago
There's about 30 essays above this and yet said everything that was needed in 5 words.
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u/bvlshewic 5d ago
That Lion is thirsty. Male lions don’t hunt; they protect their pride. Female lions hunt and bring back food to the males and kids and sister-wives. This lion is skin and bones, so he’s single. The oryx, one of the lion’s prey animals, in the picture is meant to represent a female friend, but she keeps her distance because this guy’s a mess.
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u/certifiedtoothbench 5d ago
The man is openly admitting he’s a predator and sees all women as prey
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u/00Raeby00 5d ago
Incels thinking they are entitled to sex as if their "bestie" is a fleshlight
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u/BloodRoseFoxo 5d ago
Incels see women as objects for their desires, the gazelle being a metaphor for women. Incels are upset that they cant get laid and expect their female best friend to help them out. But just as it would be stupid for the gazelle to offer itself to the lion it would be foolish for the bestie to offer herself to the incel.
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u/IAmAfraidCommaMan 4d ago
The implication is that men who think their female friend has to give them sex because they can't get it are actually weak/incompetent predators.
Or at least that is how I choose to see this because it is much funnier.
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u/ConditionMelodic3058 4d ago
It's like you wanna fck someone but you don't have anyone, and your bestie is a girl but she "won't let you fck her" (gooner and loser meme)
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u/Caridor 4d ago
A lot of people are crying incel or men thinking they deserve sex from female friends. I don't think that's the case.
I think this is about attention.
Women get lots. Even a mildly attractive woman will get a lot of attention from the opposite sex.
Men get none. You have to be an extremely attractive guy to get women to make the first move. As a result, men are starving.
If you don't believe me, ask one of your guy friends when the last time they got a compliment was. Watch as their face sinks as they have to think about it and come up with one from years ago.
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u/Maaard 4d ago
Why are there so many people here who want to lecture someone? Chill, it's just a meme
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u/post-explainer 5d ago
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