Speaking as a guy who's never had a girlfriend, i'm physically incapable of consuming any kind of romance media without getting extremely depressed. It hurts feeling like there's something so fundamentally wrong with you that you can't even get to experience one of the most beautiful things that is romantic love.
>>84754347women are not romantic in real life
>>84754347You just aggressively self-insert and refuse to aknowledge that that will never be your life, because you do not, in fact, look or act like that,
>>84754347I don't engage with romantic media. It's never clicked for me. It doesn't make me feel sad, it's just painfully boring.
>>84754347I don't usually self insert as one of the characters, I just usually sit aside in the cuck chair and watch as their relationship blooms
>>84754347anime is usually obnoxious with romance and sets a ridiculous loyalty standard. movies plots are usually too contrived to really be believable. TV is usually just like "hey, you need to be like this person because they fuck and are the coolest thing ever". books where romance is secondary are usually good.can't stand seeing it in person though. it makes me feel like such a massive fucking loser. especially if they're in your after work drinking group or something
>>84754347youll see the later 20s early 30s crowd latch onto romance books a lot because its easier to escape into fantasy that an amazing man is waiting to sweep you up somewhereafter enduring hardships its only natural to idealise it and want the bestthis is rlly one of the many reasons women are more successful besides the obvious shit, men will ldar and hate everyone, and it shows in their behaviour. if you continue putting urself out there with positive intentions its more likely you end up with a partner because you have no obvious baggage from being a virgin or not having a partner in forevermy mum still genuinely believes shell find a perfect man in her 50s as a overweight smoker whos unemployed and schizophrenic. hope helps people a lot
>>84754347You're the weird one here, retard. Most people can separate fiction from reality.
>>84754408>You're the weird one here, retardWe're in /r9k/, we're all weird retards
>>84754347Romantically unsucessful women can still fuck Chad. So they fuck Chad and then fantasize about locking down an even bigger billionaire vampire Chad. Even though they're #150 on his roster they think they're just a few more fuck sessions from being his main squeeze, but honestly he still wouldn't be good enough so the fantasies about even bigger Chads tides them over
>>84754347They don't see themselves as romantically unsuccessful. They just haven't met a guy good enough for them yet.
>>84754347Life's outside pressures are too great for women to shoulder alone. They quickly fall into delusion and fantasySuch is life, we all hate each other and we're all worse off for it. The suffering of life is within the force of its being. Everyone is hanging on by a thread and we're all too preoccupied with trying not to get blown away to ever connect or help with others.
they have a better breadth of emotions
>>84754658I don't hate others and I don't find life to be suffering. It's easy and gratifying to connect and help others.what's going on here man
>>84754731people who are nihilistic genuinely believe everyone thinks this way and are just pretending not to lol. most people genuinely enjoy helping others and generally enjoy life even if its shit sometimes even a lack of romance isnt enough to kill that drive and passion for joy. its the average mindset, really.
>>84754347Well i'm actually very much not a liker of romantic media, like the sappy or cliche movies targeted at girls where some girl is a total bitch to a guy and despite all that he still only goes for her, and he is also a billionaire for some reason. Like i genuinely hate those, it's just gaslighting: the movie.But the ones i do enjoy here and there, well they just make me daydream about my romantic interest and my romance fantasies, but that's about as far as that goes. I'm kinda locked out of having a regular dating life / romantic life, and the person i actually do have romantic feelings for, well i'm not allowed to have romantic feelings for, so it's kind of a lose-lose scenario. But yeah, to answer your question, the ones that aren't dogshit are basically just daydream fuel.
stop watching anime and quirky manic pixie shite.watch social realism.
>>84754347F, no talking stages ever, so obviously never dated beforeI don't consume much romantic media, but when I do I turn into a total hopeless romantic. Doesn't necessarily feel depressing to me as I'm blindly optimistic and like telling myself "one day"
I like dark romance, so I play games or watch visual novels with that theme.
