The guys posting on Twitter about jew daycare and paying women to not procreate are NOT construction workers I assure you. They're either in their own useless office job, unemployed, or in high school.
"There's a guy who works a 12 hour shift standing on top of a pavement mill in 96 degree heat who sees this TikTok and gets enraged! Not me of course, but I'm sure that guy exists!"
There is something in the algo that does occasionally push this through (I think maybe because people share the link), normally the sort of rage-hit like this one so it stands out (he’s not seeing 100 clips similar, just fishing, motorsports, then this random woman drinking cucumber water at the office) and he might watch it a couple of times going wtf. But agree with the premise, the people who then post online about it are not usually construction workers, even if it’s a hot topic in the tea room.
I work at the same company as the woman in the video, though in a different part and not in Chicago. Her job could have some bullshit aspects — she rightfully makes it hard to tell what her actual work is — but if she wasn't contributing to the bottom line the company would have no problem laying her off.
The "Rachel" thing is very weird to me - not the way she acts but the fact that people find this interesting at all. Assuming this is a non-staged dating reality show, I would expect to see over-the-top flirtation that I would not expect to see in the wild. Dollars to donuts she would not be like that around him if they had met outside of whatever this was. This is not real-people, real-world behavior. This should be obvious.
As a straight man, I tend to think your insight that men think they want to be aggressively flirted with by women, but really don't, makes sense. I've never been wrong when I've guessed that a woman who is flirting with a man in an aggressive, highly unsubtle, and overt manner is 1) conducting a scam, 2) like this with everybody, 3) deeply insecure (usually pairs with 2), 4) making fun of the guy, 5) trying to get something non-sexual and non-romantic from the interaction (clearly what "Rachel" is doing), or 6) drunk enough that someone should get one of her girlfriends to take her home safely. Men who say they want this tend to be young men on Reddit who don't seem to have picked up on this dynamic yet.
Yeah, that reminds me of the joke where the economist and his student find a $100 bill on the sidewalk an the economist walks right by it. The student asks why he didn't take it and the economist says something like: the efficient markets hypothesis says you can't just find $100 lying on the sidewalk, so it wasn't real.
Makes me feel bad for the woman he's married to. I guess I'm too literal but these married guys openly thirsting on their twitter profiles really icks me out. I don't care that it's for engagement $$$. I feel the same way about Hanania.
Depends on the man. I'm a fan of women aggressively overtly flirting with me and I'm well into my sixth decade. It's honest and dispels mixed signals. Not ever guy is a male apologist who thinks they are defective women hence want subtlity, preening, and Byzantinium indendo just to say "Hi, want to do a line of coke in the bathroom and fuck?"
I commented on your Twitter that "Good' for Lauren isn't necessarily a "Good" fashion moment. Her boobs are covered, and of COURSE she is going for va va voomy, it's her look. But it's not "fashion". Thanks for the Sophia Inspo pic, but it just shows that front buttons can be done well, which I hadn't known.
Re: 'Jew daycare", wow, that came out of nowhere to me. Blaming the Jews for employing her or blaming the Jews for providing daycare, or both?
Sabrina doing Corporate cosplay. The worst part is the barrette, imo.
The basic idea is that any negative aspect of modern life associated with corporations, media, academia, or anything left-coded (corporations are now left-coded on the far right, amusingly enough), is the result of a Jewish plot to destroy the white race.
In this case the idea is that the Jews are doing daycare for the woman through a makework job to prevent her from being a mother and having white children.
TBH Jews were big in the civil rights movement and a lot of the more left-wing institutions like media and academia in modern society, not to mention obnoxious liberals like Michelle Goldberg bragging about 'why can't we replace them?' in the NYT.
This is just proof that rightist Americans have lost the entrepreneurial spirit and run on oppositional defiance disorder.
Pre-WW2 Japan's reaction to hearing the world was secretly run by Jews was to try to recruit the Jews to move to Japan. Obviously you'd want to be on the good side of people like that!
I had actually heard of the Fugu Plan... from what I was told this was part of the British Balfour Declaration and support for a Jewish Mandate as well. Though given the Rothschilds had helped get the money their defeat of Napoleon the Brits saw it as less malignant I suppose.
You know, the left taking the Ivy League let them convert most of the rich people, I think. So now the right has ODD, like you say. There's also a *long* history of antisemitic conspiracy theories on the right (the Nazis grew out of this), in large part because Jews, as the only real religious minority in the West, were usually allies of anticlerical and/or secularizing forces since the Enlightenment.
My thing with the Lauren Sanchez dress is that it looks like two different dresses joined at the bodice. A strapless mermaid dress is fine. A princess dress with a high neck, long lace sleeves and a full skirt is fine. The princess top with the mermaid bottom is too much.
Thank you for posting Sophia Loren's dress. I spent at least 5 minutes trying to figure out what was going on with the lace shoulder seams before I realized the bodice had straps. Sophia Loren's had less-noticeable seams and a strapless bodice!
And I agree with the commenter below that the mermaid skirt is why people are calling this "David's Bridal.
That’s it! It’s an awkward combination of two very different styles. Also, just from my POV, the “mermaid” dress has gone way down-market in the past 10 years or so. Not that it isn’t a pretty style (with a strapless or at least sleeveless bodice) but professional-class brides don’t seem to favor it. If Lauren had gone full princess with a big skirt, she would have looked great. And more high-status.
Yes. I really hate it. Way too much going on. Any of the elements could work alone, but together it's cacophonous and terrible looking. The big veil on top of everything going on with the dress makes it all the worse. If she had no veil it would've been easier to swallow but there is just way too much going on at once.
I have to give credit to Jeff that she’s 55 and he’s 61. He obviously could have married a 20 year old but didn’t.
As for the girl jobs - I think some of it is resentment that the women were just that little bit more conscientious that lets them succeed in college and in the work world.
I don't know man. If you're going to stab the person who helped you rise in the back and give tens of billions to someone who's now got the perfect reason to be an angry feminist, at least get some kids out of it.
I agree about the conscientiousness--that is higher in women, and it does help in college and office work. What's on display here is looks, extroversion, and agreeablness, though. But there's probably quite a bit of conscientiousness going into making the tiktok, though.
At 60 I'd bet he's really not that interested in having babies even if he's not going to be doing any of the real work. I find men especially, even if they love kids, are kinda relieved then the baby phase is over. I can't imagine there are many ready to jump back in at 60.
If Bezos *wanted* kids, he has the money to 1) have them via surrogate, and 2) get day nannies, night nannies, and all the nannies in between. Neither he nor Lauren Sanchez would have to do any actual childrearing, if that’s how they roll.
Robert DeNiro had another baby a year or so ago, and I recall thinking “yeah he’s 80 or thereabouts, but he has the money to hire help. 100% he and his wife or girlfriend have a night nanny doing all the getting up with the baby work.”
However, MOST 60 year olds don’t have the money to hire a lot of help, and if there aren’t maternal grandparents in the picture who are eager to pitch in, it’s them and wife or girlfriend doing all the work…and what 60 year old wants to be up nights with a screaming, excreting potato, or deal with a “threenager” when other men are retiring, or delay their own retirement because Trophy Sophie says little Liam will need the college fund and she doesn’t want to scale back HER lifestyle? Congrats, pal, you are working till you’re 75. And not because you lost your retirement savings in ‘08, which would at least garner sympathy.
I also think he does genuinely love her. If he was just looking to upgrade an old model I'm sure there are thousands of aspiring Kardashians who'd be happy to oblige.
The thing I find bizarre is that Sanchez used to be a genuinely gorgeous woman. She’s started turning herself into a live action RealDoll since she took up with the billionaire, so it’s hard to regard her transformation as anything other than her own choice. It’s like the Capitol in Hunger Games - she wants to look weird, and little people like us in the Districts aren’t enough to dissuade her.
Someone said that since Bezos grew up with his adoptive Cuban father, Lauren has a special appeal to him. Plus she can drive a helicopter. She is just COOL. Have you seen the leaked texts he sent her? That's LOVE LOVE.
I think the reason you don't hate Lauren Sanchez's dress the way many of us do is that it exhibits your main fault as a fashionista: you have trouble with the "too much" concept. This dress throws literally every wedding dress cliche together in one dress, but nothing is the focus of the outfit. The mermaid silhouette is trying to emphasize her body, but the lace and front buttons work against that by being throwbacks to old-school princess modesty. The front buttons also stop in a weird place, like they're specifically pointing to her knees. The way the lace in the decolletage is so much less sheer than the sleeves, it makes it looks messy, like they just stacked layers of the same lace there.
If you think of great wedding dresses, they generally frame the face with a certain vibe, but this dress has so many elements you basically forget about her face. It's simultaneously trying to give a delicate, romantic and bold, sexy vibe, and those elements are clashing.
Also, this may be mean to point out, but it is really obvious in this dress that her shoulders are bigger than her hips. I'm also shaped like that, and it's why I prefer necklines that divide up my shoulders, because generally people think of having bigger shoulders than hips as a masculine silhouette and I'm generally trying to look femme. This dress screams femme but it's giving her football player shoulders, which isn't an effect I think she was going for. The Sophia Loren dress it's based on has an exaggerated hip and full skirt, so it doesn't have this problem.
The “shoulders bigger than hips” look was THE look to aspire to back in the 80’s. Rewatching old music videos from that era makes it very clear. (Also, shoulder pads!) Now the ideal proportions have reversed, and it’s “in” to have wide hips. I’m just a tiny bit bitter about that because during my 20’s and 30’s the ideal body type was the reverse of mine. Oh well!
And yes, the Lauren Sanchez dress is trying to be all things to all styles, which means it can’t really succeed. Though I think that the biggest change, that would have made the dress decent if not spectacular, would be swapping out the mermaid skirt for a fuller one. That would both have made the bottom go better with the top and made the entire outfit more upscale looking.
Right, but the thing in the 80s is that the giant shoulders were supposed to make the wearer look petite and thin. Like Princess Diana's dress had the huge puffy sleeves, but it's obvious that she's not physically filling them out and they make her waist look tiny. You were supposed to wear a giant shoulder-pad blazer to draw a V to your tiny waist and narrow hips, not actually fill out the thing with actual giant shoulders.
After 19 years my wife and I renewed our vows because our original wedding was held at an ultra Reform synagogue (Temple Emanuel) in 1985 when the Reform movement was at its worst in forbidding any Jewish ritual, So no Chuppah, no breaking of the glass, etc.
Anyway, having our children there and a few close friends and family was great and fun. So I wouldn't eliminate a vow renewal as a possibility. I think it can be a lovely event.
Or rather, he's an average suburban Republican who's picked up the "tpot" affect where you talk about everything like a strange imitation of an academic mathematician. If you talk to any of these people for 30 seconds they start trying to sell you scientific racism, because it has numbers in it and they think anything they read with numbers in it is real.
People who know nothing about dresses or wedding dresses and have no opinions on them, please stop saying this dress isn't that bad and that people just don't like billionaires. If you are someone who does have opinions on dresses and understands the elements of them and various styles, it really IS that bad. There are thousands of different types of white formal dresses. Some of them are bad, and this is one. Go to any wedding dress shop website and scroll through and you will see some you love and some you hate and this is particularly hateable.
Also, critiquing the fashion of famous women who get put in the cover of fashion magazines is a time honored tradition. We watch the Oscars and Golden Globe preshows for exactly this purpose. To see whose dresses are amazing and whose suck. It's rare that they suck! And when they do it's usually bc they went out on a limb and it didn't work, just like here. This is no different that critiquing and ranking music or movies or any other type of art, and it's an awful dress (the huge veil especially, with a dress with that many cacophonous and non harmonized chaotic elements is especially bad).
Twitter guys are so weird how they get hung up on random women...remember the 90a Phish girl? What's funny here is that this chick is acting EXACTLY like every stripper in a strip club does. It's a very well known way to suck dollars out of men. Big huge smile, eye contact, aggressive flirting, be bouncy. Like this is not rocket science and I don't understand how there are any adult men or women that don't know that this is a well honed formula that goes back decades and is indeed quite effective and getting wallets to open. Watch any teenage comedy from the 80s if you need help in this one. Lol seriously who are these guys? I guess it's a good thing they don't leave their house or enter Chez Starlight....they would be absolutely toast and taking out second mortgages on their house convinced a stripper was in love with them.
“Hey baby I have an *elephant trainer license*” that is legitimately hilarious. What would happen if he unknowingly went on a date with a woman who volunteers for PETA?
The tweet from Madison is a great breakdown of why the dress is bad. Dolce and Gabbana usually make great romantic dresses. What happened here? They accepted client input?
The dress is fine! If you were invited to a wedding and the bride wore it you'd love it. People think she looks cheap because a) they're hating* and b) she's had too so much expensive plastic surgery it looks cheap again.
*hating her is good and probably morally necessary
I cannot unsee her overdone face even when it’s not the focus of the picture. I’m not a plastic surgery hater at all, but whoa Lauren’s obvious “work done” is obvious.
I think it's a look! Not to my taste but the 'bimbo' thing is very much an aesthetic people do on purpose and I think she executes it well honestly. As Dolly said, "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."
now do I like these people personally or what they represent? no.
If you've had a lot done and are around people who've had a lot done you get kinda desensitized to it. Same with fake lashes. You gotta get out and spend time with the poors to remember what a normal face looks like.
For me (straight male), "rizz" in women is enthusiasm, playfulness, and cheerfulness. Obviously, no one is like that all the time, but if you have it as a baseline or can at least turn it on for a date, I'm there.
Physical attractiveness matters too, but as I've seen other guys mention, that's more of a threshold thing. Clear the threshold and anything more is a mild bonus as far as dating goes. (If we're just talking sex, the bonus is obviously a lot more significant.) I've known women who were not remotely my physical type but still drew me in with their energy.
Flirtation is not exactly "rizz" but is closely related, since many of the ways women flirt involve smiling and acting playful. But a woman getting excited and enthusiastic about the dinner she's eating at a restaurant is still... rizzing? New word can verb? Anyway. The point is that I and (I think) most men like women who can and do project positive emotions. And I would guess the same is true going the other way.
I think you’re privileged in that you found someone truly compatible with you (congrats btw I’ve always rooted for you)
If you’re truly willing to settle and believe that you’re not really going to be attractive to even one person being yourself, the advice is pretty good.
For some people, casting a very wide net is the best option.
The guys posting on Twitter about jew daycare and paying women to not procreate are NOT construction workers I assure you. They're either in their own useless office job, unemployed, or in high school.
"There's a guy who works a 12 hour shift standing on top of a pavement mill in 96 degree heat who sees this TikTok and gets enraged! Not me of course, but I'm sure that guy exists!"
Yes! I cover that in my DOGE article
Lmao... I love trying to imagine how this construction worker's TikTok algorithm ends up serving "cute Chicago office girl outfit"-Tok.
Like I don't want to stereotype but... this guy's TikTok is probably bass fishing, motocross fails, and hilariously dumb truck mods.
There is something in the algo that does occasionally push this through (I think maybe because people share the link), normally the sort of rage-hit like this one so it stands out (he’s not seeing 100 clips similar, just fishing, motorsports, then this random woman drinking cucumber water at the office) and he might watch it a couple of times going wtf. But agree with the premise, the people who then post online about it are not usually construction workers, even if it’s a hot topic in the tea room.
Can confirm. My boyfriend’s shorts reel is entirely burnouts and excavators doing epic shit
If they're in high school, they're probably posting from inside the locker they were stuffed into or the bathroom stall they were swirlied in.
That guy is also making like 45 dollars an hour
If I'm remembering correctly, the hoe_math guy's job is a youtube channel where he makes dating advice diagrams on graph paper
Or in India
I work at the same company as the woman in the video, though in a different part and not in Chicago. Her job could have some bullshit aspects — she rightfully makes it hard to tell what her actual work is — but if she wasn't contributing to the bottom line the company would have no problem laying her off.
The "Rachel" thing is very weird to me - not the way she acts but the fact that people find this interesting at all. Assuming this is a non-staged dating reality show, I would expect to see over-the-top flirtation that I would not expect to see in the wild. Dollars to donuts she would not be like that around him if they had met outside of whatever this was. This is not real-people, real-world behavior. This should be obvious.
As a straight man, I tend to think your insight that men think they want to be aggressively flirted with by women, but really don't, makes sense. I've never been wrong when I've guessed that a woman who is flirting with a man in an aggressive, highly unsubtle, and overt manner is 1) conducting a scam, 2) like this with everybody, 3) deeply insecure (usually pairs with 2), 4) making fun of the guy, 5) trying to get something non-sexual and non-romantic from the interaction (clearly what "Rachel" is doing), or 6) drunk enough that someone should get one of her girlfriends to take her home safely. Men who say they want this tend to be young men on Reddit who don't seem to have picked up on this dynamic yet.
Yeah, that reminds me of the joke where the economist and his student find a $100 bill on the sidewalk an the economist walks right by it. The student asks why he didn't take it and the economist says something like: the efficient markets hypothesis says you can't just find $100 lying on the sidewalk, so it wasn't real.
I agree, but the existence of successful honeypot operations would seem to fly in the face of this argument.
all right, but eigen is comfortably married to a terrific woman with two kids and another pending, not a reddit incel
Makes me feel bad for the woman he's married to. I guess I'm too literal but these married guys openly thirsting on their twitter profiles really icks me out. I don't care that it's for engagement $$$. I feel the same way about Hanania.
Not as bad as Hanania bc eigenrobot also spends a lot of time wifeguying
So? That doesn't mean he's right about this.
that’s kind of my point. what’s his excuse?
Depends on the man. I'm a fan of women aggressively overtly flirting with me and I'm well into my sixth decade. It's honest and dispels mixed signals. Not ever guy is a male apologist who thinks they are defective women hence want subtlity, preening, and Byzantinium indendo just to say "Hi, want to do a line of coke in the bathroom and fuck?"
Yeah, people can flirt in natural, authentic ways and this (intentionally) isn't that - and everyone in the video is in on it..
Sometimes it's not even an ulterior motive. It's just immaturity and insecurity.
Usually combined with liquor.
I commented on your Twitter that "Good' for Lauren isn't necessarily a "Good" fashion moment. Her boobs are covered, and of COURSE she is going for va va voomy, it's her look. But it's not "fashion". Thanks for the Sophia Inspo pic, but it just shows that front buttons can be done well, which I hadn't known.
Re: 'Jew daycare", wow, that came out of nowhere to me. Blaming the Jews for employing her or blaming the Jews for providing daycare, or both?
Sabrina doing Corporate cosplay. The worst part is the barrette, imo.
You don't spend enough time on the far right.
The basic idea is that any negative aspect of modern life associated with corporations, media, academia, or anything left-coded (corporations are now left-coded on the far right, amusingly enough), is the result of a Jewish plot to destroy the white race.
In this case the idea is that the Jews are doing daycare for the woman through a makework job to prevent her from being a mother and having white children.
TBH Jews were big in the civil rights movement and a lot of the more left-wing institutions like media and academia in modern society, not to mention obnoxious liberals like Michelle Goldberg bragging about 'why can't we replace them?' in the NYT.
This is just proof that rightist Americans have lost the entrepreneurial spirit and run on oppositional defiance disorder.
Pre-WW2 Japan's reaction to hearing the world was secretly run by Jews was to try to recruit the Jews to move to Japan. Obviously you'd want to be on the good side of people like that!
I had actually heard of the Fugu Plan... from what I was told this was part of the British Balfour Declaration and support for a Jewish Mandate as well. Though given the Rothschilds had helped get the money their defeat of Napoleon the Brits saw it as less malignant I suppose.
You know, the left taking the Ivy League let them convert most of the rich people, I think. So now the right has ODD, like you say. There's also a *long* history of antisemitic conspiracy theories on the right (the Nazis grew out of this), in large part because Jews, as the only real religious minority in the West, were usually allies of anticlerical and/or secularizing forces since the Enlightenment.
My thing with the Lauren Sanchez dress is that it looks like two different dresses joined at the bodice. A strapless mermaid dress is fine. A princess dress with a high neck, long lace sleeves and a full skirt is fine. The princess top with the mermaid bottom is too much.
I agree actually. I still wouldn’t say it’s hideous though!
Thank you for posting Sophia Loren's dress. I spent at least 5 minutes trying to figure out what was going on with the lace shoulder seams before I realized the bodice had straps. Sophia Loren's had less-noticeable seams and a strapless bodice!
And I agree with the commenter below that the mermaid skirt is why people are calling this "David's Bridal.
That’s it! It’s an awkward combination of two very different styles. Also, just from my POV, the “mermaid” dress has gone way down-market in the past 10 years or so. Not that it isn’t a pretty style (with a strapless or at least sleeveless bodice) but professional-class brides don’t seem to favor it. If Lauren had gone full princess with a big skirt, she would have looked great. And more high-status.
Yes. I really hate it. Way too much going on. Any of the elements could work alone, but together it's cacophonous and terrible looking. The big veil on top of everything going on with the dress makes it all the worse. If she had no veil it would've been easier to swallow but there is just way too much going on at once.
I have to give credit to Jeff that she’s 55 and he’s 61. He obviously could have married a 20 year old but didn’t.
As for the girl jobs - I think some of it is resentment that the women were just that little bit more conscientious that lets them succeed in college and in the work world.
I don't know man. If you're going to stab the person who helped you rise in the back and give tens of billions to someone who's now got the perfect reason to be an angry feminist, at least get some kids out of it.
I agree about the conscientiousness--that is higher in women, and it does help in college and office work. What's on display here is looks, extroversion, and agreeablness, though. But there's probably quite a bit of conscientiousness going into making the tiktok, though.
At 60 I'd bet he's really not that interested in having babies even if he's not going to be doing any of the real work. I find men especially, even if they love kids, are kinda relieved then the baby phase is over. I can't imagine there are many ready to jump back in at 60.
If Bezos *wanted* kids, he has the money to 1) have them via surrogate, and 2) get day nannies, night nannies, and all the nannies in between. Neither he nor Lauren Sanchez would have to do any actual childrearing, if that’s how they roll.
Robert DeNiro had another baby a year or so ago, and I recall thinking “yeah he’s 80 or thereabouts, but he has the money to hire help. 100% he and his wife or girlfriend have a night nanny doing all the getting up with the baby work.”
However, MOST 60 year olds don’t have the money to hire a lot of help, and if there aren’t maternal grandparents in the picture who are eager to pitch in, it’s them and wife or girlfriend doing all the work…and what 60 year old wants to be up nights with a screaming, excreting potato, or deal with a “threenager” when other men are retiring, or delay their own retirement because Trophy Sophie says little Liam will need the college fund and she doesn’t want to scale back HER lifestyle? Congrats, pal, you are working till you’re 75. And not because you lost your retirement savings in ‘08, which would at least garner sympathy.
You may have the answer there, I think. He's just old and looking to enjoy the end of his years.
I also think he does genuinely love her. If he was just looking to upgrade an old model I'm sure there are thousands of aspiring Kardashians who'd be happy to oblige.
The thing I find bizarre is that Sanchez used to be a genuinely gorgeous woman. She’s started turning herself into a live action RealDoll since she took up with the billionaire, so it’s hard to regard her transformation as anything other than her own choice. It’s like the Capitol in Hunger Games - she wants to look weird, and little people like us in the Districts aren’t enough to dissuade her.
Find you someone who is as weird with you as Lauren is with Jeff ❤️
Someone said that since Bezos grew up with his adoptive Cuban father, Lauren has a special appeal to him. Plus she can drive a helicopter. She is just COOL. Have you seen the leaked texts he sent her? That's LOVE LOVE.
Well, if he's happy, he's happy. If not, with his billions he'll find someone else easily enough, and she'll get a nice settlement out of it.
I would rather not be talking about people get divorced on their wedding day!
I think the reason you don't hate Lauren Sanchez's dress the way many of us do is that it exhibits your main fault as a fashionista: you have trouble with the "too much" concept. This dress throws literally every wedding dress cliche together in one dress, but nothing is the focus of the outfit. The mermaid silhouette is trying to emphasize her body, but the lace and front buttons work against that by being throwbacks to old-school princess modesty. The front buttons also stop in a weird place, like they're specifically pointing to her knees. The way the lace in the decolletage is so much less sheer than the sleeves, it makes it looks messy, like they just stacked layers of the same lace there.
If you think of great wedding dresses, they generally frame the face with a certain vibe, but this dress has so many elements you basically forget about her face. It's simultaneously trying to give a delicate, romantic and bold, sexy vibe, and those elements are clashing.
Also, this may be mean to point out, but it is really obvious in this dress that her shoulders are bigger than her hips. I'm also shaped like that, and it's why I prefer necklines that divide up my shoulders, because generally people think of having bigger shoulders than hips as a masculine silhouette and I'm generally trying to look femme. This dress screams femme but it's giving her football player shoulders, which isn't an effect I think she was going for. The Sophia Loren dress it's based on has an exaggerated hip and full skirt, so it doesn't have this problem.
The “shoulders bigger than hips” look was THE look to aspire to back in the 80’s. Rewatching old music videos from that era makes it very clear. (Also, shoulder pads!) Now the ideal proportions have reversed, and it’s “in” to have wide hips. I’m just a tiny bit bitter about that because during my 20’s and 30’s the ideal body type was the reverse of mine. Oh well!
And yes, the Lauren Sanchez dress is trying to be all things to all styles, which means it can’t really succeed. Though I think that the biggest change, that would have made the dress decent if not spectacular, would be swapping out the mermaid skirt for a fuller one. That would both have made the bottom go better with the top and made the entire outfit more upscale looking.
Right, but the thing in the 80s is that the giant shoulders were supposed to make the wearer look petite and thin. Like Princess Diana's dress had the huge puffy sleeves, but it's obvious that she's not physically filling them out and they make her waist look tiny. You were supposed to wear a giant shoulder-pad blazer to draw a V to your tiny waist and narrow hips, not actually fill out the thing with actual giant shoulders.
As always enjoyable.
After 19 years my wife and I renewed our vows because our original wedding was held at an ultra Reform synagogue (Temple Emanuel) in 1985 when the Reform movement was at its worst in forbidding any Jewish ritual, So no Chuppah, no breaking of the glass, etc.
Anyway, having our children there and a few close friends and family was great and fun. So I wouldn't eliminate a vow renewal as a possibility. I think it can be a lovely event.
re: rizz for women - this is the full video https://youtu.be/ksYmKw7BntQ?si=-kKkkvuzmb6Hko-q
“ bbno$ blind dates 7 girl musicians (mostly) to find love!” so, as you say, completely fake.
also, her whole bit reeks of an insufferable theater kid and every twitter dude excited about it serves as proof they never actually talk to women
Yeah it was the theatre kid vibes that made me melt down. Nothing about "homosocial competition" or whatever eigenrobot was blathering on about.
He's just a really weird guy you should ignore.
Or rather, he's an average suburban Republican who's picked up the "tpot" affect where you talk about everything like a strange imitation of an academic mathematician. If you talk to any of these people for 30 seconds they start trying to sell you scientific racism, because it has numbers in it and they think anything they read with numbers in it is real.
Yeah this is why I stay off twitter and just read CHH's summary of these weirdos weekly.
People who know nothing about dresses or wedding dresses and have no opinions on them, please stop saying this dress isn't that bad and that people just don't like billionaires. If you are someone who does have opinions on dresses and understands the elements of them and various styles, it really IS that bad. There are thousands of different types of white formal dresses. Some of them are bad, and this is one. Go to any wedding dress shop website and scroll through and you will see some you love and some you hate and this is particularly hateable.
Also, critiquing the fashion of famous women who get put in the cover of fashion magazines is a time honored tradition. We watch the Oscars and Golden Globe preshows for exactly this purpose. To see whose dresses are amazing and whose suck. It's rare that they suck! And when they do it's usually bc they went out on a limb and it didn't work, just like here. This is no different that critiquing and ranking music or movies or any other type of art, and it's an awful dress (the huge veil especially, with a dress with that many cacophonous and non harmonized chaotic elements is especially bad).
Twitter guys are so weird how they get hung up on random women...remember the 90a Phish girl? What's funny here is that this chick is acting EXACTLY like every stripper in a strip club does. It's a very well known way to suck dollars out of men. Big huge smile, eye contact, aggressive flirting, be bouncy. Like this is not rocket science and I don't understand how there are any adult men or women that don't know that this is a well honed formula that goes back decades and is indeed quite effective and getting wallets to open. Watch any teenage comedy from the 80s if you need help in this one. Lol seriously who are these guys? I guess it's a good thing they don't leave their house or enter Chez Starlight....they would be absolutely toast and taking out second mortgages on their house convinced a stripper was in love with them.
What is really funny about this “dating 34 women conman chad” is he allegedly has a wig!
Even his hair is fake lol
(He also mentions his “elephant trainer license” to every woman lol)
LMAO
“Hey baby I have an *elephant trainer license*” that is legitimately hilarious. What would happen if he unknowingly went on a date with a woman who volunteers for PETA?
Yeah right?!
And he apparently mentions bunch of different licenses and jokingly add “oh btw I have an elephant trainer license” at the end lol
And he uses his charming Osaka accent to his advantage too lmao
The tweet from Madison is a great breakdown of why the dress is bad. Dolce and Gabbana usually make great romantic dresses. What happened here? They accepted client input?
It's definitely the most helpful breakdown I saw! I still don't think it's horrendous but it may be too busy.
The dress is fine! If you were invited to a wedding and the bride wore it you'd love it. People think she looks cheap because a) they're hating* and b) she's had too so much expensive plastic surgery it looks cheap again.
*hating her is good and probably morally necessary
I cannot unsee her overdone face even when it’s not the focus of the picture. I’m not a plastic surgery hater at all, but whoa Lauren’s obvious “work done” is obvious.
I think it's a look! Not to my taste but the 'bimbo' thing is very much an aesthetic people do on purpose and I think she executes it well honestly. As Dolly said, "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."
now do I like these people personally or what they represent? no.
If you've had a lot done and are around people who've had a lot done you get kinda desensitized to it. Same with fake lashes. You gotta get out and spend time with the poors to remember what a normal face looks like.
For me (straight male), "rizz" in women is enthusiasm, playfulness, and cheerfulness. Obviously, no one is like that all the time, but if you have it as a baseline or can at least turn it on for a date, I'm there.
Physical attractiveness matters too, but as I've seen other guys mention, that's more of a threshold thing. Clear the threshold and anything more is a mild bonus as far as dating goes. (If we're just talking sex, the bonus is obviously a lot more significant.) I've known women who were not remotely my physical type but still drew me in with their energy.
Flirtation is not exactly "rizz" but is closely related, since many of the ways women flirt involve smiling and acting playful. But a woman getting excited and enthusiastic about the dinner she's eating at a restaurant is still... rizzing? New word can verb? Anyway. The point is that I and (I think) most men like women who can and do project positive emotions. And I would guess the same is true going the other way.
Can we all just agree "rizz" is a Gen Alpha term for "charisma"?
That's the exact word it's derived from.
“Men will disagree, but sorry guys, you don’t ask a fish for fishing advice.” This is a great line, CCH.
Sadly, it’s an age-old red pill saying!
Those red pill guys are fishing for incels and not women, though.
Lotta meat on them incels
I think you’re privileged in that you found someone truly compatible with you (congrats btw I’ve always rooted for you)
If you’re truly willing to settle and believe that you’re not really going to be attractive to even one person being yourself, the advice is pretty good.
For some people, casting a very wide net is the best option.
Hmmmmm ok
To any man who sincerely believes that blonde woman is showing genuine interest/attraction or authenticity… I have some magic beans to sell you
The girls in Delilah's champagne room are there because they're extra nice and really love their jobs and want to be your friend. Promise.