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If all people from the opposite sex would vanish overnight but "only for you". How long would it take for you to notice? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Everybody else will act normal and all prior evidence of their existence will also persist like normal.

Edit: For clarification, the people are actually missing but everybody is essentially hypnotized to not notice. Even if specifically asked about the missing people they will pretend like everything is fine. So everybody goes on about their day normaly.

I guess for most people it would be pretty much immediately if their significant other isn't there in the morning and for some fringe isolated cases it might take forever.

I guess best case for me would be around 4 hours on a work day during lunch break seeing a big crowd of people when it would finally click.

Worst case would be probably 5 days when I'm mostly working from home office.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Immediately. My only close friends at this point in my life are women

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ditto. I'd have so few friends, not to mention my wife and daughter (no males in the house other than me) so things would be pretty confusingly lonely, pretty quick!

At least OP was pretty clear that all people of the opposite sex were to have disappeared so I can still have my dog.