Dating is something that takes a lot of guts and experience from everyone who wants to be good at it. But nobody, not even your friend Trevor who spends all of his weekends chasing Tinder matches, is safe from making a fool of themselves. And some of these misfires can be painful not only for the two people who are on the date, but to everyone around them.
To prove this point, I'll ask you to take a look at the subreddit r/SadCringe. It's a place for awkward and/or embarrassing situations that also make your heart ache, and while we have already covered it in one of our older publications, this one is dedicated exclusively to pathetic attempts of winning over others.
I don't know if we should feel sorry for these folks or not — many from this bunch sound like they would fail a test in common decency. But let's try to judge their behavior rather than their personalities. If that's possible.
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Life Stops Right At 35
Dude...just...you insult her out of the gate and then pretend like you're not interested when she turns you down...just...stop.
Just A Normal Guy
Guy Thinks A Girl Was Begging For Sex When She Was Nice To Him At Lunch
To a guy that never gets anything from women, yes. It does appear that way to them.
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This is a definite INCEL. He believes he is OWED sex from any women who talks to him. Him responding to them is a transaction that should be compensated with sex. What an absolute creep.
I can't praise your comment high enough! This is on spot!
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THIS is why so many women fear being nice to men, it's very, VERY sad
because some men have no intention whatsoever to communicate with women in a non sexual way.
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okay, so if you have a boyfriend, you apparently should spit in other people's faces so that they won't, heaven forbid, think you are leding them on.
I think lot of women have learned from experience that stating you have boyfriend probably cuts the unwanted attention by half. Creeps will still continue though.
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And if you work in the service industry, heaven help you. The amount of times you just take care of a customer and are NICE & the mens take it the wrong way. smh
THIS!!! This is why some women, myself included, have that persistent thought in the back of the mind. Does this person or others perceive this as flirting? When you’re being friendly, or just joking around with coworkers. For example I love my team we are always joking around with eachother (nothing inappropriate), even our manager is amazing and probably leads the charge when it comes to having fun. But internally I second guess myself and always feel I have to hold back a little bit more then my male colleagues.
I never understood, and prolly will never understand, WHY LIKING A GOOD JOKE, A GOOD TASTE IN MUSIC AUTOMATICALLY MEANS I'M FLIRTING!? I-You- WHAT WHY HOW!?..??..?? What kind of people have you come in contact with in the past to have THIS type of ideology?
and that is why so many women are really not friendly towards men. we can't. it has consequences.
Yes, yes yes yes yes yes times a million, but be careful if you ignore them because seriously you never know when one of them will snap because you're being too f**king good to talk to them, every interaction is Russian roulette with a man
Load More Replies... She was "nice to him all day" and he's in a rage bc of it. This is how dangerous it is to be female.
me being a male i am disappointed in all these people. i can't believe people like these exist
Unfortunately more than you might imagine. Thanks for being a normal human.
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No. No, no and no again. Do NOT blame another woman for this man's failure. As a parent you can do whatever you want, when kids get to a certain age influences such as peers, media etc take over. And if you want to blame a parent, why not the father? I'd say a boy learns from his father how women should be treated. By blaming a woman for a man's behaviour you're being just as misogynistic as this dude.
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probably would have complained and siad she needed to smile more if she had been mean.
it's funny how being polite or ladylike or gentlemanly is being misconstrued for flirting, obviously not in this scinerio, but, it's true.
This is why I had so many stalkers and weirdos fixate on me. I always treated men and women the same and was just naturally friendly but guys would think I fancied them even though I never so much as flirted with any of them EXCEPT the few I did want a relationship with and even then I was so shy most didn’t even know!
I have heard so many times in my life "i have a girlfriend" me being nice to a person is not flirting twat
A lot of people are only nice and attentive if they want to bang you, and they assume the same in return. They really don't understand anything else.
I once was nice to a dude and he started at my ass when he though I wasn't looking and proceeded to tell people we were dating.
Incels Online Are Cringe. In Person? Even Worse.
This is so bad, so fricking bad! These types of people belong in mental asylums, if not jail.
Im Dying Of Cringe
Haha, Yes We Can...
That's Just Nasty
I Salute This Cringe.
Poor Guy
I JUST REMEMBERED a while ago I said I was lesbian online and this dude was arguing that it's a sin and then someone else said "Bro ur just mad she gets more girls than you" 💀💀
'He Was Bleed From His Mouth'
Would've considered if it said "Hi it's Josh now just got back from the afterlife"
I Posted In Another Sub About Wanting A Breast Reduction. I Just Got This Message
This Guy Is An Alpha Male
Fuck Boi
Homie Just Kept Going
Always Shoot Your Shot?
Just Gonna Drop This Right Here
Happy Anniversary
Did Ian Mean Anything To You?
*cringe Nervously*
My Friend Who Ive Known For Around A Month
The Balls On This Guy
Can I? Please? Please?
I Thought You Were A Good Person
Bruh
I'm surprised the artist(s) didn't try to talk him out of it, or refuse to take the commission(s).
My Ex From High School Sent Me A Snapchat Video Of Him Begging Me For Nudes, And It Got Worse
I Really Hope This Is Not Real
Promo Code “Cutie”
I Felt This In My Soul
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Genuine question: have these techniques ever worked? I mean EVER in the history of flirting? Where are guys getting the impression that these are the methods to use? I get that persistence is a thing in "RomComs", but some of these fall so far on the "Com" side that it's just not funny any more.
I am reminded of something that happened in the mid-1970s when I worked in a gas station. A coworker who was fat, ugly and a jerk called up a girl he knew a d said "do you want some company?" And not much else. A few minutes later she drove up, and picked him up. About half an hour later she dropped him back. I was amazed, mostly at her lack of self esteem.
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Sooner or later there will be 'nice men' who come on to comment about how the examples show women as b*****s. What is really sad is how some of these examples show women being harassed for sex, for nude pics, being catfished and having their number used by strangers. Not all men are like this, I am married to one of them. But those men who aren't like this, need to call out those who are. Enough is enough. Women are not objects to fulfil the whim of men. We have the right to be left alone, to say no, to have our privacy respected, to be treated as human beings.
Nah, your huisband is one of them. He is the nicest of all
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There SHOULD be an incel tip line like any Other crime.harrassment is a crime.and radicalized men(and enablers)should face scrutiny as femicidal terrorists.
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You know, women are regular human beings. You can just talk to us; you don't need some magical pickup line as a password.
That requires a certain level of intelligence AND emotional intelligence to achieve it. That’s totally beyond these examples ain’t it? Two (or more) people can randomly meet, converse, share a beer or a coffee, enjoy the moment and it doesn’t have to become anything other than that, equally it can be the start of the rest of your life together. When will the incels learn? Life is about crossing paths and enjoying the experience for its own merits, that’s where you start, that’s what makes life an enjoyable rollercoaster. PS Sevven a rather good Sixx reference, nice. 😀🤘
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I've never actually witnessed anything like this before, even when it's just "me and the guys," but all these were just so sad, pathetic, creepy, embarrassing, and some dangerous. I mean, I've had to tell guys to keep crap to themselves or to stop acting like a caveman but I've never seen this depth of worm-like behavior. I don't even know how I'd respond. Some of these people need therapy and consistent, positive human contact and some of the others need medication or incarceration. Like these are deeply woven, complex attachment, personality and emotional issues, a true glimpse at the vast multitude of societal problems and the lack of institutions or resources to counter it.
It's a lot of entitlement and lack of consequences you're right
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Reading stuff like this is entertaining for me. Hard to believe most of it is real, since it's hard for me to imagine women putting up with a guy long enough to let him text her nonsense repeatedly. Block and move on
These guys would benefit from reading something like The Game or the 30 Day Style Challenge. The latter would be more help because Strauss actually teaches men/incels/whatever how to present themselves better, be more confident and stylish and generally how to be a better human male.
A lot of men think of women as an exotic specie and a prize to be won. If they viewed women as normal, equal human beings who don't exist as a pretty object out there luring men and choosing the strongest of prospects to give them babies, this wouldn't be happening at all. This is frankly disgusting.
The knock knock guy at the end was cute. I would have laughed. The women's boyfriend is the jerk in that exchange. If I were her, I might just break up with possessive boyfriend and see if knock knock guy is single.
I think the faces and names of the offenders shouldn't be blacked out.it may discourage their stalking if they think people see them.
I often think about how happy I am to have married young and never had to deal with crap like this. Then I see so much evidence of Nice Guys that I'm thinking, I'd rather be single forever if that was the case.
Genuine question: have these techniques ever worked? I mean EVER in the history of flirting? Where are guys getting the impression that these are the methods to use? I get that persistence is a thing in "RomComs", but some of these fall so far on the "Com" side that it's just not funny any more.
I am reminded of something that happened in the mid-1970s when I worked in a gas station. A coworker who was fat, ugly and a jerk called up a girl he knew a d said "do you want some company?" And not much else. A few minutes later she drove up, and picked him up. About half an hour later she dropped him back. I was amazed, mostly at her lack of self esteem.
Load More Replies... Sooner or later there will be 'nice men' who come on to comment about how the examples show women as b*****s. What is really sad is how some of these examples show women being harassed for sex, for nude pics, being catfished and having their number used by strangers. Not all men are like this, I am married to one of them. But those men who aren't like this, need to call out those who are. Enough is enough. Women are not objects to fulfil the whim of men. We have the right to be left alone, to say no, to have our privacy respected, to be treated as human beings.
Nah, your huisband is one of them. He is the nicest of all
Load More Replies... There SHOULD be an incel tip line like any Other crime.harrassment is a crime.and radicalized men(and enablers)should face scrutiny as femicidal terrorists.
Load More Replies... You know, women are regular human beings. You can just talk to us; you don't need some magical pickup line as a password.
That requires a certain level of intelligence AND emotional intelligence to achieve it. That’s totally beyond these examples ain’t it? Two (or more) people can randomly meet, converse, share a beer or a coffee, enjoy the moment and it doesn’t have to become anything other than that, equally it can be the start of the rest of your life together. When will the incels learn? Life is about crossing paths and enjoying the experience for its own merits, that’s where you start, that’s what makes life an enjoyable rollercoaster. PS Sevven a rather good Sixx reference, nice. 😀🤘
Load More Replies... I've never actually witnessed anything like this before, even when it's just "me and the guys," but all these were just so sad, pathetic, creepy, embarrassing, and some dangerous. I mean, I've had to tell guys to keep crap to themselves or to stop acting like a caveman but I've never seen this depth of worm-like behavior. I don't even know how I'd respond. Some of these people need therapy and consistent, positive human contact and some of the others need medication or incarceration. Like these are deeply woven, complex attachment, personality and emotional issues, a true glimpse at the vast multitude of societal problems and the lack of institutions or resources to counter it.
It's a lot of entitlement and lack of consequences you're right
Load More Replies... Reading stuff like this is entertaining for me. Hard to believe most of it is real, since it's hard for me to imagine women putting up with a guy long enough to let him text her nonsense repeatedly. Block and move on
These guys would benefit from reading something like The Game or the 30 Day Style Challenge. The latter would be more help because Strauss actually teaches men/incels/whatever how to present themselves better, be more confident and stylish and generally how to be a better human male.
A lot of men think of women as an exotic specie and a prize to be won. If they viewed women as normal, equal human beings who don't exist as a pretty object out there luring men and choosing the strongest of prospects to give them babies, this wouldn't be happening at all. This is frankly disgusting.
The knock knock guy at the end was cute. I would have laughed. The women's boyfriend is the jerk in that exchange. If I were her, I might just break up with possessive boyfriend and see if knock knock guy is single.
I think the faces and names of the offenders shouldn't be blacked out.it may discourage their stalking if they think people see them.
I often think about how happy I am to have married young and never had to deal with crap like this. Then I see so much evidence of Nice Guys that I'm thinking, I'd rather be single forever if that was the case.
