Sexuality's "lowest difficulty setting"

Over at Cracked, someone wrote not one, but two articles claiming that "being a straight male is sexuality's lowest difficulty setting".

It doesn't take a Nobel prize in psychology to realize that this is total bullsh!t. If straight males had it easy, then this video wouldn't make any kind of sense. This thread is not for the purpose of debating where "straight male" lies on the Scale of Difficulty of Getting Laid; we already know where it is, and anyone who disagrees should be taken about as seriously as a young-earth creationist.

So instead of debating whether or not the original statement is a load of crap, let's simply count the ways in which it's a load of crap, and all of the different ways in which we can express how much of a load of crap it is. Examples:

"Saying that being a straight male is sexuality's lowest difficulty setting is like saying that Tungsten has the lowest melting point of all metals"

"Saying that being a straight male is sexuality's lowest difficulty setting is like saying that North Korea is libertarian"

 

I kind of get their point if you look at it from a 'what is socially accepted' standpoint. It's a bit stereotypical but straight men can go out and be promiscuous and not have to worry about it affecting them socially in a negative way, but rather a positive way. For women if they behave this way they are considered sluts and are looked at negatively and ridiculed for their promiscuous behavior.

For gay men and lesbian women it is already more difficult for them to be accepted in society as it is. At least straight women are deemed socially acceptable by society as a whole simply for being heterosexual.

And don't even get me started on transsexuals and the social stigma they receive.

 

I'd probably agree that being a straight male is easiest, either that or being a straight female, although menstruation and child-birth don't sound like much fun.

More importantly: who cares?

 

Being a strait male has one extremely difficult aspect to it, which cannot be overstated. This critical and at times overwhelming difficulty perplexes and often drives the male to stupidity and irrational actions. Many studies have been done, books written, attempts made to address the deeply damaging problem....all to no avail.

What is this terrible and unavoidable issue, you may ask.........






We Live With Women.

And gladly suffer the consequences.

 

This is a common misconception. There are people who don't give a damn about other people's sex lives regardless of whether they're male or female, and there are people who condemn promiscuity regardless of whether you're male or female, but I have yet to meet a single person who holds the two sexes to different standards. Some people just like to draw attention to the condemnation given to promiscuous women and apathy given to promiscuous men while ignoring their inverses because it gives them a fake issue to complain about.

That depends entirely on where you live. I happen to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where being gay entitles you to participate in pride parades, and I heard that some places in Thailand have a "third bathroom" specifically for transsexuals. Iran, by contrast, is somewhat less tolerant.

Bingo.

I think you'll find that the world has changed a great deal since the 1950s. You see, we have these little pills now...

 

You have a point here unless someone is so frustrated with society's views on their sexuality/sexual behaviors and want sex change, why does it matter? lol

 

Since I happen to live in the Bay Area and have been to many a 'pride parade'- I can say with absolute certainty that 'being gay' doesn't entitle you to participate- certainly the pride parade is focused on homosexuals but I always enjoy seeing the proud parents of homosexuals in the parade.

I suspect that might be a throwaway remark, but its like saying that being Chinese 'entitles' someone to participate in the Chinese New Year Parade.

 

Well, it's a little bit different. You see, we celebrate both Chinese New Year and the real New Year, but only gays get to have a pride parade. If someone wanted to hold a straight pride parade, there would be hell to pay.

 

EVERY parade is a straight pride parade.

If you missed it- the one last Sunday is probably the biggest 'straight pride' parade in the city....

You want to organize a special parade for straight's who feel somehow left out by not having their own parade of fun- go for it.

You can even ask your mom and dad to march proudly as the proud parent of a heterosexual....

 

Wrong. That's like saying that every TV channel except BET is devoid of black people. Still not quite as wrong as saying that Tungsten has the lowest melting point of all metals, but pretty wrong.

 

But only if they are attractive enough to get laid. Which is what I think the original point was. Statistically something like 20% of the males do 80% of the mating. That means most guys are losers and can't get laid at all. That's why the alpha dogs get all the poon and the sensitive guys get friend-zoned.

Unless the theme of the parade is strictly to promote being straight then no, it's not. This is hyperbole.

 

lol...oh well!

 

Getting laid isnt very difficult if you are a reasonably healthy ,unsmelly dude and you dont live with your mom. From what i have seen , the guys that dont pick up any " Poon"are guys that are too scared of rejection to even try.

 

That last part is the key. The rest is completely irrelevant. You can be physically ugly and not shower for a week and still pull hot girls. In fact, you can pull them back to a roach infested apartment with trash everywhere and still bang them. I've done it. You'd be amazed at what girls will put up with if they like you. And that's the key; making them like you. Which purely comes through behavior. All that other crap we get conditioned to worry about like money, looks, height, muscles, status, it's all so ridiculously irrelevant. Girls respond to how you make them feel. If you can make them feel good, they'll fall in love with you. But you're absolutely right that you can't be scared of rejection. Because in order to rock a girl's world, you can't be afraid of her. Which means you can't be afraid of hearing "no." You can't be fazed by it at all. And you have to be playfully persistent. Because sometimes "no" doesn't mean "no." It just means "not right now." Knowing how to read which means which comes through experience. Experience that most guys never get because they're too afraid to go out and get rejected in the first place.

Fortune favors the bold. The meek masturbate.

 

No the first part is NOT irrelevant. While it may be true that in a few very isolated instances a smelly fat poor dweeb can pull top shelf females... it is hardly a common occurrence. Well maintained , intelligent , confident females are attracted to well maintained, confident males.

Getting "laid" and "pullin poon" is for adolescents and sophomoric degenerates. Making yourself worthy as a man, of attracting and holding a quality female is a lifelong ambition.

 

You're still too socially conditioned. Anybody can do it. Because the package is irrelevant. It's the value inside that attracts and holds the attraction. Masculine polarity is all you need. The rest is completely meaningless. Culture promotes absurdities that brainwash us into believing that we need to be things that we're not. Or need to have things that we don't. And none of it is true. It's all an illusion.

 

Straight male is the HIGHEST difficulty setting. If you want to attract a good mate, you have to be successful in life, have a stable income, with the ability to support a wife and several children.

Homosexuals do not have to meet any of these criteria. They can get sex at any truck stop restroom.

 

Being a complete dick is sexuality's lowest difficulty setting. If you care for nothing but getting your rocks off no matter who you hurt, sex has got to be pretty easy.

 

This is a myth and I really wish that people would stop spreading it.

Let's not turn this into the rape thread, okay?

Everyone masturbates. The meek just do it more often.

Let's not turn this into the rape thread, okay?

 

I was waiting for this. I knew it was only a matter of time before some PC person misunderstood what I said.

 

Its only a myth to the person who cant get laid. Are you telling me that if you were to go out every weekend for a month ... you couldn't get one female to cooperate sexually? i stand by my claim as I have not met anybody who meets with my criteria that cant get laid. I will add one more standard though.. you cant have a repulsive personality ( unless your stinkin rich and drive a Ferrari.... but if your stinkin rich and drive a Ferrari or an equivalent auto.. the first four perquisites are optional)

 

I think it is much more fun when I have a petty cash fund for that purpose, under any form of Capitalism.

 

Honestly I think you're misreading the "lowest difficulty" thing. It's not JUST sex, but things like jobs as well. And I think in all of these situations, the idea is wrong. It's not race that's the determmining factor, it's wealth. The son of rich black parents has better prospects for most things than the son of a poor white family.

 

Even women seem to be willing to "Enron" their potential relationships by playing the game of Monopoly and engendering so many anti-trust issues instead of playing the game of Life, with us.

 

Actually I wasn't talking about rape (though re-reading my comment, I have to admit, it does sound like that). I was talking about the players who think sex is a big game and are willing to lie and hurt people emotionally to get what they want.