I follow AskMen and I’ve noticed a lot of questions about women think. I get preferring the same gender for dating advice but the question are like why do some women wear skimpy clothes. It’s not really new but it’s getting stupid at a certain point. If you want to know some women wear skimpy clothes, then go to the sub AskWomen. Sorry I had to vent a little about stupid people can be.
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I said this in the ask men sub. Why do men go to other men for relationship advice when women would say the opposite.
Guy complains “gf wants too many dates”
Men “ugh tell her she’s materialistic and don’t buy her stuff, break up with her”
Women advice “get her flowers and explain that $ is tight until next month, but then plan a joint date idea that both can enjoy”
Women advice gets downvoted by men on askmen lol
I ask men for advice on men subs like duhhhh?
It seems men just want validation from other men to do the easy option/lazy option. And since most men on Reddit are… not the best daters… its like LOL
I think a lot of men go to AskMen, because they’re not looking for an answer, so much as looking for an echo chamber.
Sometimes asking others why a certain behavior occurs is more informative than asking that group directly. Sometimes.
I’ve seen it said on the Internet since the early 2000s that men should take advice from men about what women want because women don’t really know what they want. They think that they want the nice guy instead of the bad boy, etc. Of course, I’m pretty sure this advice originally stemmed from scam dating coaches and pick up artists who are trying to sell a product. either way, though, I think it’s just passed down from guys on the Internet to younger guys on the Internet at this point.
AskMen seems to be a place men go to feel affirmed in their dislike of women as people.
To be fair, this happens a lot on women’s subs as well. “Why do men do xyz?” gets asked a lot, and all of us seem very happy to answer those posts as well.
They won’t ask women because a lot of them straight up do not care what women think or don’t care to listen to women. They just want male opinions because they prefer listening to men, even if those opinions straight up don’t help their case. Reminds me heavily of that one quote about “Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic” (paraphrased because the entire quote is a big paragraph that I can’t really write down out of my head)
Because a large portion of men care about men’s opinions more than women’s. It’s why some men are nice when they’re alone with you but they become a different person when their guy friends are around.
Because they don’t respect women, obviously
I was in that sub yesterday and saw some females asking for advice on body count and clothing. Every response was a thinly veiled accusation of women whoring themselves out / being used up / seeking attention and ultimately the answer was they are “low value”. I was completely confused on the amt of female hate, but then I realized I was in AskMen and it all made sense. Now algorithm is all jacked up and I keep getting their posts. That’s definitely a sub to ask men questions when you want your views mirrored back to you.
I’ve seen it too. Asking men about women is like making sure you don’t get the right answer or only stumble across it by accident.
Even better, when a woman does answer one of those questions on there, a bunch of men typically jump on her telling her she’s wrong. Amazing how so many men think they know more about women than actual women.
That phenomenon doesn’t surprise me in the least.
What is even MORE worrying is when women ask MEN questions in that forum. They get advice which can be dangerous……….but as long as it preserves a woman’s (sexual) accessibility to an unknown male then that’s fine.