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Why are women more attracted to readers than consumers of video games and porn? There's different kinds of art and different modes of aesthetics
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Women are corny little faggots
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I’m actually noticing the collapse of the attractiveness of the book-as-moid-accessory in real time. Too many Indians and business majors carrying around women-authored bestsellers. The foid can smell the performativity.
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>>25316357
I saw a guy reading the Immortal Life of Henritta Lacks on the treadmill the other day. He was also wearing a ball cap with a phrase in small cursive font and aviator glasses. Really grim.
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>>25316357
women have always had some skill in sniffing out hashtag nice guys trademark. they still are much more interested in authentic readers with no ulterior agenda than japanese cartoon addicts.
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>>25316349
gaymurs are corncobbier
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>>25316345
>attracted to readers than consumers of video games and porn
Erotic visual novels are a way to multitask all three in one.
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>>25316345
Because the main female pastime besides cooking and cleaning is reading porn.
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>>25316440
>i cant breed
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>>25316440
>visual novels
>aka video games with grade 5 writing level instead of grade 4
designed to cater to male fantasies, no stacey will ever care
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stunningly idiotic
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>>25316370
Define "authentic readers". Do you mean people who read books because they like doing so? Or people who read certain books? I mostly read sci-fi and nonfiction books about science and history
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>>25316477
NTA but you're saying this like most books people think of aren't written at a 6th grade level. Most people and women don't jump to Tolstoy when they think of books
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>>25316364
>the Immortal Life of Henritta Lacks
I haven't read it but is that a book that people are reading performatively? I thought it was just a pop science narrative book
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>>25316492
people who read for their own sincere and personal reasons, not trying to impress anyone else. and yes, there are plenty of so-called autentic readers that read slop i would despise, but thats a point for another thread.
>I mostly read sci-fi and nonfiction books about science and history
and as long as you read them for your own means and ends, thats authentic enough for me
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>>25316495
Tolstoy is written at a sixth grade level however.
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>>25316495
maybe i chose the wrong grade level. i see your point, but the average bookslop has better prose/diction/whatever than the average VNs i've played, including steins gate or zero escape
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>>25316345
the only real measurement of biological succes is IQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxacX72snA&ra=m
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I agree that it's stupid, and I read books. Books are just a status symbol to some people.
>>25316370
The whole "nice guy" thing is just code for an uncharismatic man who they weren't going to have sex with anyway, and they're trying to shift it somehow to being a moral error on his part. It's incredibly disingenuous.
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>>25316699
lmao found one already
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>>25316345
Aesthetics. Today at the bookshop I saw women pose with books and click a few pictures then leave.
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>>25317765
No, you didn't.
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>>25316699
Being uncharismatic is a moral failing.
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>>25316674
>i dont read but i need to fit in to feel le smart
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You guys are not grasping this thing from the correct end. Women don't find any hobby inherently attractive or unattractive. When they say things like this, it's about what image they want to present. Literature and high culture in general is thought to be prestigious, so when they say that they think it's hot when a man reads, what they are actually trying to say is that "I'm a sophisticated lady who can only be fulfilled by a sophisticated man, I'm not shallow like other women."
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>>25317931
as long as it makes it easier to bully gamers, i'm down
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>>25316495
tolstoy is one of the most famous writers of all time, retard. get off the internet.
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Wow yeah that's a great question, op. I'm also mentally retarded and it really tickles my 80 IQ mind.
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Reading requires more synapses as it relies on your imagination to illustrate in your mind what is being read. Video games does the imagination for you.
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>>25317931
That's why they're so quick to call things "performative;" they don't understand what it's like to do something because you have a genuine interest in it. It's projecting.
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Porn is gay and most video games suck ass and are best played with an open mouth and a turned off brain.
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>>25316345

Imagine caring about the opinions of women
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>>25318063
Imagine farting a shit
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>>25316345
This image pisses me so fucking much

Also don't waste your seed bros
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>>25317988
Bach is one of the most famous composers of all time, doesn't mean you can hope to encounter randomly discussion on his much by some stranger on the street, you fucking retard
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>25318258
"discussion on his music"
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>>25317798
You'd be surprised
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>>25316345
>>25317931
Books are expensive and (to them) useless. Either they're well to do (IQ is 70% heritable), or they could justifiably place a mating bet on good Chad breeding stock whomst is not Mr. Moneybags (yet).
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>>25318761
books are useless to who? women?
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>>25316349
Fpbp

>>25316699
This is mostly true

>>25316370
IDK about this. You're generally correct but women seemed to only be attracted to readers if it's their very specific "this is what my dark romance vampire werewolf fantasy boyfriend would read" genre. Which usually is some random, but highly specific and narrow, slightly edgy highly mediocre subset of normiecore. I've tried talking to women about Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Austen before and they never seem interested compared to other topics, even if they've heard of them.

That said I fucking DESPISE art whores and self-described intellectual women so idk.
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>>25318805
you have never lived with a woman who wasn't mommy so how would you know
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>>25318806
I lived with my ex fiance for a year before breaking up with her. Has a man ever expressed interest in marrying you, anonette?
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They don't actually care that much about men reading. When they do, it's simply because they are conformists and reading has been seen as a high status activity for a very long time.
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>>25318761
>>25319059
most readers are women, that includes readers of slop and readers of liberal art class syllabi
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Straight men abandoned literature and higher education willingly. I have no interest in hearing their thoughts on either subject.
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>>25318258
Kek gottem
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>>25319711
shut up you ruined my post retard
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>>25316364
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gaming is increasingly associated with racism/sexism which gives women the ick. a reader to them is a lot less likely to be engaged in anything under the umbrella of neckbeard-adjacent bullshit.
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>>25316345
Most video games are not art. They are just dopamine hamster wheels.
Same with porn. You're not actually engaging with it at an aesthetic level. You're using it to pull a lever in your brain.
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>>25320579
>DURRR MUH DISCO EXPEDITION 1886 THO
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>>25320207
The thing is, I’m actually the guy on the right, but I think of the guy on the left what he thinks of the guy on the right.
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>>25320597
Eh. I would argue something like Katamari Damacy is closer to art. I don't really care about Disco Elysium.

inb4 hur dur color japanese kawaii. I don't care about any of that either.
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reading is a sign of being able to engage with hypotheticals, irony, and how far you are willing to go to understand your own beliefs systems. high emotional intelligence along with signifying that you are capable of guiding her and steering her in the right (your) direction. she is amazed by the things you explain to her and does not care to fact check, she trusts that you as a reader have done the fact checking for her. you can even help her feel intelligent by sending her passages, recommending her books, reading to her and explaining sentences so she knows you aren’t just making shit up. this is fun for her, it turns her on. this works for erotica too, classic erotica. way more interesting than regular porn. just like scifi/fiction is more mentally engaging than gaming. wome want interesting men with weird proclivities who are true about it, simple as that.
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>women like readers
Women hear a guy reads and assumes he's a porn addict because that's what they read.



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