• qarbone@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I don’t think “begrudging women a single test to see if someone is the type to explode over a single inconvenience” is the right hill to stick your flag on.

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      3 days ago

      Trying to start a relationship by playing games is very much a good place to find red flags.

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        2 days ago

        It might seem like a game to you but that’s someone’s life.

        Do you have an alternative for how they should determine if a potential partner is a danger? Besides hiring a private detective or rolling the dice by finding out after they’re invested?

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          2 days ago

          If you can’t trust a stranger even a little bit then don’t date complete strangers. Limit your dating pool to your circle of friends, friends of friends, people you already know or that your friends vouch for.

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            2 days ago

            That is so utterly devoid of empathy that I have nothing left to say to you.

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              2 days ago

              Yeah, lack of empathy on her side, I know. If you think your date is a potential rapist/murderer/… then why are you trying to date them?

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                1 day ago

                Potential partners don’t have to be rapists or murderers to be worth avoiding. They could have anti-social tendencies, explosive tempers, or violent reactions. Or, just be generally unpleasant. Like you.

                I wouldn’t have discovered I’m not much a fan of you, if I hadn’t made an innocuous comment about not holding it against women if they do a single smoke test for bad actors. We might have otherwise been buddy-buddy, with years of casual friendship, before something else triggered this, or a similar, conversation. And then, months or years down the road, I’d have to grapple with whether the friendship is salvageable. Because I don’t think shrugging at women who have to play russian roulette for love is very cool.

                But, as I said, I’m lucky. I can say we’re done here, right now.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, I’d say it’s a red flag except there are a ton of crazies that this quickly filters for them and keeps them safe from.

      So in an ideal world it would be bad, but it makes sense in the one we live in.