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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At least you got that. Some people just ghost you.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What is better:

  1. Get ghosted
  2. get AI generated text back
[–] denaggels@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Definitely 2.

Not even close

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 7 points 6 days ago

This a symptom. But that funny to see guy discovering

[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 229 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Thats because they are afraid you're going to lose it and verbally, physically or mentally abuse them.

[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 143 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I had a friend call me one night because she said no to a guy and he started threatening to kill himself. Like damn. That's some insane guilt-tripping, manipulative bullshit right out the gate. And this wasn't the first time this happened to her too.

[–] frizzo@piefed.social 66 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It would be so hard me not to say "do it pussy."

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The concern there is they may decide to take you with them.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

"men are scared women will laugh in their face, while women are scared it's their lives men will take"

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[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 121 points 1 week ago (3 children)

One girl dumped me after a few dates, nothing special, and she was super apologetic. She said she'd understand if I called her a fucking bitch and blocked her. I was so offended by that comment. I'm not one of those insecure guys who flips out when they get rejected. I can handle being dumped! I can't believe she thought so lowly of me! Fucking bitch!

What a cunt! Fuck her!

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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 112 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I think this person broke up with ChatGPT

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[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 76 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So, ghosting is bad and evil. At least tell the man you aren't interested! Men are suffering due to ghosting! But also, don't put him down when rejecting him. Men have to suffer so much rejection, so their ego is easily hurt. Let him down gently!!

Oh, you did? Well let me mock you for being TOO nice and diplomatic about it 😂.

Damn I'm so happy I'm not dating anymore. Feels like no way to do it right.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

Fair enough statement about some of the comments here, but at least the original poster in the screenshot is taking it in good stride like you're supposed to with a polite rejection.

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[–] sparkles@piefed.zip 76 points 1 week ago

Rejection is the antecedent for many behaviors, which are often dangerous. So we try a lot of ways to make it impersonal, kind, soften the blow…etc.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, it's polite and a response. Pretty good in my book

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got a message soon after I started talking to someone where they said they wanted to see where their current thing went with somebody they'd met a few times, and like, yeah, thanks and I respect that. it seemed genuine. I was happy to get that message instead of chats just disappearing when it seemed like it was going well.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

because chats disappearing is the easy way out. it takes a mature person to not ghost.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

yeah it only made me more disappointed that they were unavailable lol, they were the best match I've had and it was over in like two messages, and their last message was just more evidence how decent they were

still, happy for them

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Y'know, I'm fine with it because it is at least professional. Better than getting ghosted or them being rude about it.

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[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it really all that surprising that when

  1. Dating, especially with apps, has become for so many such a soul-crushing impersonal numbers game
  2. Enough people (but mostly fragile men) become menacing upon being rejected
  3. Enough people keep complaining about how bad it feels to get ghosted

someone would end up sending this?

Jesus Christ, try and get into other people's shoes from time to time.

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'd rather get something like this instead of seeing it die off slowly and then not getting a straight answer or getting blindsided. Just rip the bandaid off—be honest about what's going on. If you can't learn to handle these situations and handle your emotions in a reasonable manner, then maybe you shouldn't be dating yet...

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

at least they sent a message, good on her.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Men: crash out when they get ghosted

Also men:

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like the guy is in good humor about it, at least.

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[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

I'd pick this any day instead of the one where both sides verbally abusing one another leaving lifelong emotional traumas.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Trying to prevent you from getting threatening and nasty due to the threat to your "masculinity".

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[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

As someone who lives in rural Scotland and is old enough to have got married before the prevalence of these apps, I genuinely never expected to find the way most people hook up these days to be so utterly alien to my own lived experience.

I honestly don't know how I'd cope with having to curate myself for some dystopian line-up so that, if I'm lucky, I can end up on these depressingly transactional dates, only to get these polite but impersonal rebuffs.

In my day people just got drunk enough to speak to the opposite sex, and if you clicked and miraculously still liked each other the next day then you'd start 'going out' with each other.

I can see how that might sound awful to many of this generation, but it was pretty much normal for us. And as a pretty plain guy with a reasonable sense of humour it worked out pretty well for me.

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For women, bluntness and honesty is treated as assault.

For men, retaliation is unremarkable and unnoticed until it's too late.

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