KilroywasNOTHere
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Yeah except both options just result in a bunch of hags bitching about 'why won't men give me infinite free attention anymore?'. Lovely. X_X
Because it's common knowledge that women deserve to get free shit by mere virtue of existing.
Hate to say it but Sink or swim. Either don't give them or enable them and live with the consequences. I don't agree with Shipmaster on a lot of things, but I'll sort of use one of his arguments here. Your choice of bedfellows is not a democracy, you choose those you enable under most circumstances.
Most of the pretenders came about because nerds thought they could pull a Frankenstein or a Pygmalion and "Remake them in their image" as proper "geek girls" in spite of all of the red flags screaming the contrary. It would be like if a Top G (Andrew Tate Fan) or a crypto bro thought they'd be able to win me over if they appeased me just enough, despite the fact I have openly made it clear I think both Andrew Tate and Crypto Bros are a prime example of the degradation of society that prey on the feelings of hopelessness that exist within the week of vulnerable. No amount of appeasement or external pressure is going to sway someone whose convictions are that strong. That person is going to have to come around on their own accord and the person wanting to have someone like them would be better off finding someone who already has a similar interest to what they do or someone who is far more receptive.
Most nerds for whatever reason were not carefully observant of the red flags and now many of them have been left embittered and broken as a result on top of some of them already being somewhat broken to begin with.