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[-] mHtt@lemmy.ca 2 points 52 minutes ago

If you can give kindness to strangers: you are successful

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If “succeed in life” means significant intergenerational wealth to achieve a strong head start, great genetics for height and facial symmetry, and strong black triad traits, then sure. Let’s convert the word “luck” to “intelligence”, regardless of how bad that fit may be.

I mean, there are exceptions among women. But the correct term is called “outliers” for a damn good reason.

Sounds like you might be buying into the black pill Incel propaganda they were talking about. Pretty much all my smart friends who ended up being fairly successful (at least middle class) ended up being snatched out of the dating pool fairly quickly, before they ended up making anything of themselves.

I think ambitious and emotionally intelligent people often end up pairing in long term relationships and removing themselves from the dating scene fairly early in life. So people who are less emotionally developed/available are left thinking the other sex is to blame.

Plus, I think if we are going to be judging the sexes for being shallow, I would say a lot more women are okay with being with men less attractive to themselves than vice versa.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 32 points 6 hours ago

At least OP said women and not "females".

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 hours ago

Rrrreallly setting the bar high, are we?

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 78 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Kinda bordering a strawman here, but if I said

why are men attracted into the airhead type?

there would be bunch of dudes saying they are into intelligent women, and that it's just hollywood.

Dylan says "Why don't girls like me," sulking. "Hey," "Dylan" says the offscreen voice.Dylan looks over to see a giant amalgamation of women, some of them are falling as it moves. The amalgamation speaks to him. "It's me, all girls. Only you understand that all women share a consciousness, Dylan. Be one with me . Link yourself to the hivemind." Dylan has stopped sulking, as he now only cowers in fear.

(Sidenote props to the artist for drawing all those people one by one)

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 7 points 6 hours ago

Is this an egg meme?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 hours ago

Zach is like Randall Munroe for people who prefer eyes to not be attached to heads 🤩

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 117 points 10 hours ago

Incelligence is a heck of a term.

[-] Tango@piefed.ca 7 points 6 hours ago

Should be word of the decade.

[-] phx@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago

I mean, that's a fun take but realistically there are plenty of women who put a lot more stock in looks (just as men do) an immediate financial ability.

That jock who got a job that's physically demanding might be making more out of high school, but the IT nerd who went for they education and got a good tech job was likely on a slower burn path to self-improvement with better pay, possibly improving looks over time (or at least less of a beer belly). At least before AI started killing the tech sector again, so maybe the jocks will be coming out ahead for awhile.

Also, there's also nothing wrong with being a good dude with average intelligence who works hard. Just don't pick an red-hatred idiot. And intelligent nerds who don't learn social skills can absolutely still become nasty incels.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago

I wouldn't put too much stock into the jock versus nerd stereotypes.

Life isn't an RPG with stats that come at the cost of other stats. Being bad at sports doesn't make someone more likely to be good at school (if anything, the correlation might run the other way). And charisma, ambition, intelligence, physical appearance, athleticism, work ethic, are all distinct factors that sometimes feedback on each other, and feed into things like wealth, happiness, attractiveness, etc.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago

"Just don't pick an red-hatred idiot" took me a sec to parse.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 hours ago

It's a typo but the intended group still fits! Love it.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

Hey... my Pepe folder has been collected and curated carefully for decades

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 129 points 12 hours ago

Also, this is just plain wrong.

Some women are attracted to intellectual minds.

Some women are attracted to physical strength, some women are attracted to maternal instincts, so on and so forth.

The problem is this question is usually being asked by someone who thinks that responding to every factual statement with an inflammatory counterpoint qualifies as intelligence.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago

Also, this is just plain wrong.

A greentext that's wrong? Highly unlikely.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Not on this Internet!

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 hours ago

The weird definition of intelligence they are using (how to succeed in life) does kind of cover that. The definition of what success is, and the millions of ways of achieving it covers just about all variations.

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 4 hours ago

From what I've observed, intelligence doesn't count for much when it comes to "success in life", whatever that might be.

[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 36 points 10 hours ago

Speaking of juicy mammoths, who's the lady in the picture?

[-] Raw_Toast@fedinsfw.app 15 points 10 hours ago

Asking the important questions.

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Probably what he considers his bottom in terms of women he'd date.

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Some thirst trap which is ironic since she's holding a drink

[-] Raw_Toast@fedinsfw.app 8 points 9 hours ago
[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 hours ago

What about the women that is into pepe lore or WW2 theory?

I cant decide if there's more or less of them than the ones that's into 4chan incels?

[-] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

They don't exist. If women get into pepe lore or WW2 they grow male genitalia. It's not well documented but it happens quite a lot. The body starts producing massive amounts of testosterone and the stress ages and disfigures the women and also effects their memory. Most of the male incels on 4chan are former super models who got exposed to pepe lore or WW2.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

What about the women that is into pepe lore or WW2 theory?

They are irrelevant, because they are both Fake and Gay

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 hours ago

Can confirm: am a woman named Gayle "Gay" Fake who can't get enough cartoon frog facts and FDR/Göring slash fiction.

[-] 5wim@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago

This is true, i am the FDR

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 56 minutes ago

Hey there, handsome!

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Taking a wild guess: I feel like there may be a few more women into history than sexism.

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 27 points 10 hours ago

women are people with choices

they make different choices

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago

Impossible. If women had choices, then they'd have a diversity of off-spring with a wide spectrum of forms, traits, and behaviors.

We know that can't be the case, because all men are identical and perfectly interchangeable, except for a tiny variance in peak performance which they use to sort themselves from Sigma to Omega for the purpose of obtaining Da Big Sequesy to produce more Sigma clones.

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[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 36 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

So success in life means actual intelligence? I disagree with that.

Success ≠ actual intelligence.

Plenty of very successful people who are complete morons.

Women are attracted to success, regardless of actual intelligence.

And of course this is a generalization. Women are not a monolith.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago

It's more that intelligence implies success rather than success implies intelligence.

Actual intelligence boosts chances for success, but it is not required for success.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

The way the world is going, intelligence is playing less and less of a factor. You're either born into it, or you're a wage slave struggling for life.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Guess that depends on where you are. Many places in the world have very high social mobility along with solid welfare and pension systems.

Maybe somewhat less that 40 years ago, but certainly much better than the last thousand years overall.

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[-] Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

And how do you succeed in life? Step 1 is to have rich parents. The term commonly used for those seeking out people from rich families is gold digger.

[-] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 hours ago

If your only measure of success is wealth, that's kind of sad.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

It's not, but anyone that tells you wealth doesn't matter, is either lying or trying to sell you something also.

[-] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 hours ago

You have already failed. Success is not measured in wealth.

If you are having a good time with friends/family around a fire pit with a total cost of £0. You are succeeding more than the richest man on earth who can't get anyone to genuinely like him.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

For those three hours, then they have to pay rent, buy food, pay bills. And try to survive, which wealth makes immensely easier.

[-] Haquer@lemmy.today 3 points 6 hours ago

But enough about Elon Musk.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

It's possible both scenarios included Elon Musk.

[-] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

If your only measure of success is wealth, that's kind of sad.

[-] Senal@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago

Wealth for wealth's sake, possibly, but i'm not gonna start throwing shade at someone else's life goals.

Wealth is , however, a good baseline to build upon to achieve other metrics, up to a point at least.

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