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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 29 insightful - 4 fun29 insightful - 3 fun30 insightful - 4 fun -  (12 children)

This 'theory' sounds like a slice of hot nonsense.

[–]tuesday 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I play one of the massive multi player games and can attest that the OP is correct.

An awful lot of the guys who play those games are weird as fuck. They do exactly as the OP described. They will have a "girlfriend" whom everyone knows is just a guy playing a girl. It's exactly as if some of these guys just want a woman-shaped doll and they don't actually care who the doll is as long as they get to play "the male doll" and get to ejaculate all over their screen.

They are seriously crude about it, and no one bats an eye.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

And how many of those men are well adjusted with a wife and kids?

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Men with wives and children are not “well adjusted”. They found a woman to further their genetic material and act as a domestic slave. Even better if she works that way they don’t have to pay for the upkeep of the house and put their salaries into their hobbies.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No.

[–]Mencantbewomen[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Well, you could actually explain why.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 35 insightful - 4 fun35 insightful - 3 fun36 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

Your arguments are:

  • ‘Straight’ men actually want to sleep with trans women

  • There are more gay / bi men than we have been led to believe

Your claims are based on:

  • An episode of a fictional TV show you watched

Furthermore, the couple don’t live in an open marriage like you describe, with both of them sleeping around all they like. They allow themselves one day a year to sleep with other partners, in this case ‘dudebro’ and whoever the wife meets at a bar.

The two men meet up in real life to test whether they have feelings for each other, which they don’t. Both of them are quite clear on that fact. There is something about the game that makes the virtual sex ‘different’ to whatever they’re doing in real life, and the fact that both of them tried it with other partners, both virtual and real, without getting the same satisfaction, remains unexplained.

If anything, this is a story about two men who struggle with their sexuality and find an outlet for that in a virtual reality video game.

It is not proof that most straight men are incapable of attraction to, or love of, women.

Black Mirror also included an episode where a mother kept 24-hour surveillance on her daughter, forces her to abort her unborn baby, and then is beaten unconscious by said daughter. Are mothers even capable of letting their children do their own thing?

[–]powpowpowpow 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you so much for being sane. Its mindblowing how there are people feeding into this post...

The subtle levels of homophobia on this post is also a great cheff's kiss... YIKES

[–]MarkJefferson 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

There's also an episode with a robot dog that I can only assume accurately portrays a cis dog. This robot dog shoots people in the head. Are dogs even capable of loving humans and refraining from killing them with a gun built into their paws?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well to be fair there are known breeds of dogs that have killed their owners and eaten them. Some places even restrict your ownership of those breeds. Not all dogs are golden retrievers.

[–]powpowpowpow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ok... because some breeds are more agressive and the owners didn't know how to train them properly that makes every dog not capable of love? K... noted, what's even the point of this conversation?

We are seriously using a fictional and sensational "phone bad" tv show to create a malfunctioning theory on people? Jeez

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why not? A lot of TV however badly written are commentary on people and society. JFC ...Are you seriously telling me that it has to be a documentary in order to explore an idea?

[–]tuesday 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

no, the argument is that this dynamic is found in virtual online spaces.