“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”

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    The fact that conservative women are having a hard time finding men to date is kind of odd. It seems like they could clean up. But I guess alt-right guys are a real pain

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      I think it’s just that conservative women want this fictional idea of conservative men who are adults instead of the reality where they’re petulent piss babies across the board

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        Conservative women are expected to give up a lot of themselves as human beings, so of course the men have to be worth it, right? You submit to him in every way because he’s so good and strong (emotionally and physically) and a natural leader, right? Right?

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        FIFY: Doughy, sycophantic, petulant, piss-babies, who happen to be obsessed with childrens genitals.

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      Conservative men weirdly try to date liberal women often. Even hiding behind “apolitical” etc. Even if you identify your preference for liberal men, they still swipe etc.

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        I don’t know how weird it is. That’s where all the women are, and their whole thing is not respecting women’s choices. Also they don’t read.

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          It’s simple, if you only get one match for every 100 likes/swipe right you give out, you simply don’t have time to read every profile properly.

          Especially if 9 out of 10 matches don’t even respond after messaging them.

          That has been my experience and I am not even right wing.

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            I just recently tried Hinge, my first attempt at a dating app just kinda on a whim. I pressed X on everyone who didn’t really have, or at least display, much of a personality and 48hrs later happened upon a real top-shelf weirdo and it’s been going pretty well so far. I get likes, too, but they’re almost always liking my generic picture and not asking about any of the interesting ones or about the written prompts so I just skip those ones.

            My own profile is not built to be palatable but built to be myself. It shows my interests and it shows who I am which may turn people away but that’s ok since it’s better that happens now instead later, ya know?

            TL;DR: If you just smash “like” on people you barely looked at all you’re doing is increasing your rejections and making yourself feel bad over something that was never going to work out in the first place.

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          That’s very fair, and you’re right. A lack of respect for others pretty much covers all those things including thinking her preferences don’t matter or won’t once the truth comes out. It always struck me as a a weird behavior because it seems doomed to conflict/waste time.