"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Deadpool & Wolverine

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Is used to be that the MCU was a garantee of a good time. Then we had the first Captain Marvel Movie followed by the Woke, the women, the representation, the pandering etc. and basically things started going downhill after Endgame.

Sure, there was still the good movie here and there but it became the exception rather than the rule. Deadpool & Wolverine feels like Marvel saying "Hey guys. We are listening to you. We are trying to make the MCU great again". Its a step in the right direction. Lets see if they can keep it up.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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When LOTR was modified to include a female ranger so it test marketed I knew the jig was up.Galadriel was always supposed to be the only prominent woman in the whole damned thing.

When Star Trek started with fat acceptance, trans and gay characters, and pretty much all female protagonists, the same.

When Star Wars started girl power as well.

Is what it is.
 

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Is used to be that the MCU was a garantee of a good time
That depends entirely upon how we define The MCU. If we're factoring in Spiderman 3, XM: The Final Stand, The Blade Trilogy(Groundbreaking as the first installment was), The Amazing Spiderman flicks, Dark Phoenix, XM:Apocalypse, The Hulk movies, every attempt to adapt The Fantastic 4... Well, the past is often whitewashed

Deadpool had the good fortune to begin outside of Disney's clutches, and before Wokeness really developed a stranglehold over the culture it has now. Star Reynolds is a self-described "ally" though, thus whether or not the series will remain Un-PC remains to be seen
 

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When Star Wars started girl power as well
This all goes to a larger, rarely discussed malfunction in our civilization https://theweek.com/articles/595463/how-america-became-obsessed-star-wars-other-childish-things https://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.com/2016/03/no-self-respecting-adult-should-buy.html?m=1

If so many guys today are having a tough time not just with the ladies, but academically and in their careers, this may be at least partially attributable to so many of retreating from the complexities of reality and into infantile, good vs evil fantasies
 

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I’ll be honest, I think it has to do with the disturbing trends of young men going trans and cutting off their penises and having franken poosies carved into themselves.

They see the privilege that poozy drivers have and want that kind of acceptance.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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I’ll be honest, I think it has to do with the disturbing trends of young men going trans and cutting off their penises and having franken poosies carved into themselves.

They see the privilege that poozy drivers have and want that kind of acceptance.
I might agree with you, if the difficulties which disproportionately affect the male population didn't predate the fad you're describing by at least two decades. That the very first Spider-Man broke the bank, and that audiences(Especially men)didn't instead retort: "We're not kindergarteners anymore. Don't insult us with crap like this" indicates that things we're starting to go awry. I saw this as someone who enjoyed SM2 quite a lot
 

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I’ll be honest, I think it has to do with the disturbing trends of young men going trans and cutting off their penises and having franken poosies carved into themselves.

They see the privilege that poozy drivers have and want that kind of acceptance.
My girl watches Netflix’s dating shows. Most of the men there wear eyeliner, nail polish, and pearl necklaces.



 

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My girl watches Netflix’s dating shows. Most of the men there wear eyeliner, nail polish, and pearl necklaces.



Odd that we pretend that such fads have never happened prior
 
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