I never liked Haribo gummi bears, I remembered they also caused a media stir a few years back because their sugar free gummi bears were causing a nationwide diarrhea “epidemic” and they had to recall all of them.
I loved Sour Brite Crawlers back in the day. I remember my ritual loading up on them and a Nestle Crunch Bar at a dollar store before going to the movies. Screw paying $2.50 for a regular sized bag of M&M’s and 2 bucks for Twizzlers. 5 Bucks for popcorn was pushing it for me.
Regarding women and superficiality. Yes it is obvious that we as human beings love beauty in all its forms. The difference is that men are simple. Everyone knows what we want and what we like, there’s no subtext for us. Our transparency makes us easy targets for social scrutiny, even if our behaviors are governed by the same innate biological parameters.
Women, on the other hand follow socially reinforced narratives of being more neutral or chaste (which is why female teachers can rape grade schoolers and only get probation), and also practice ritual self-deception. Men can practice self-deception on occasion, but unless it’s backed up with pathological narcissism or delusions, we can’t maintain it (also other men will quickly check us if we can’t back it up). This is why women can justify dating the foul-mouth bad boy and reject the decent but average-looking guy… until “maturing” — i.e., banging a slew of non-committing high value men in their prime and settling once they have kid or get knocked up by a tertiary provider.
So a lot of times they mask their internal dialogue with self-justifications to the point where it becomes their “truth”:
“That guy isn’t fugly, he just lacks confidence, and I need confidence in a man.”
“Yeah he’s nice, but where’s the edge?”
“…He ticks all my boxes but I just don’t feel a spark… y’know, chemistry.”
Women also evolved to be more agreeable, so most will instinctively be more pragmatic in the face of potential public criticism and openly judicious when among the safety of their peer groups.
Working at a department store with around 70% female employees gave me invaluable experience on how contradictory women behave.
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I’ve seen a female coworker turn down a male coworker she was constantly flirting with when she wanted a favor done, only to mention she doesn’t mix work and social life when he asked her out repeatedly. Later on I overheard in the break room that she banged like 8 dudes who worked there in a single year, including the security guard.
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Women talk about their rough rape and 50 shades~esque sex fantasies with each other on the service elevator not realizing shaft isn’t soundproof so I can hear everything from the ground floor.
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Married female coworkers silently fighting over cold approaching a “handsome” dude browsing the men’s section and taking off their wedding rings while giggling like schoolgirls.
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Married cougars and female managers winking at or straight up hitting on me- feeling my arms unsolicited or asking me if I’m “seeing anyone”. (Oh the hypocrisy)
So in essence, without the cultural governors or “shaming culture” that exists, women are free to basically act on animal instinct rather than cultural or moral expectation.
But that’s the thing, I can’t fault women for following the same biological protocols men do, but I think some public self-realization and truly open dialogue would go a long way in helping society weed out all the antiquated unscientific BS we’ve had about sex and dating since the “Leave it to Beaver” era.
This is also why in more traditional patriarchal cultures men, who were well aware of the innate hypergamous tendencies of women (which are present in nearly all female animals — whether it be a blue whale or fruit fly) actively controlled it with arranged marriages/ religion, and gave women wide garments to hide sexual signals. This made sexual selection a man’s domain, which is counter to most mating practices in nature. Our self-aware intelligence changed the structure of the evolutionary mating game, and also made us more likely to settle down and gravitate towards agriculture.
It’s kinda hard to create a large civilization when 80% of men have blue balls, don’t you think?
So for example, Saudi Arabia still does drastic stuff like this:
