No? I do eat a lot of beans, but also eat fresh meat that I cook in advance. I’m not chowing down on hot dogs and slim jims

Aw yeah, baby. Chugga chugga chugga chugga - CHOO CHOO!!

What?

I’ve found a simple fix to this is, when I want to stress eat, just eat more protein. It tends to be delicious and to scratch the “eat lots of food” itch, but is also satiating and not processed junk.

I’m sure they had some grooming standards. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about how fictional representations of medieval peasants have perfect skin. And the very obvious reason for this is that they are fictional.

Are you high? No! It’s because you aren’t seeing actual medieval people on tv. You are seeing an actor portraying a medieval person for a TV show. And it is well known in show business that no one wants to watch a TV show about ugly people. Plagues, stds, and pests like fleas and lice swept through ancient cities. Everyone drank beer instead of water because the water was so polluted that without the disinfecting effects of alcohol, you would die if you drank it. It wasn’t uncommon to suffer malnutrition in times of famine or war. But you think that everyone had beautiful, flawless skin…?

Its the most true thing you’ll read all day.

Probably because someone said it was a good idea in a meeting.

WordPress?

That’s sort of sidestepping and deliberately misinterpreting the question. Sure, there are the dumbasses who thing “this thing feels good, therefore it must be bad!” But that’s not what most people think of when they think of a “guilty pleasure”.

A guilty pleasure is like, eg, drinking a beer. Drinking is bad for your health. In moderation, your long term health probably won’t be significantly impacted, but presuming you care about your health, you probably also care about other aspects of living a healthy lifestyle. For example, maybe you play pickup soccer in the park, and find you have more fun when you are more in shape, since you can run faster and farther without having to catch your breath. Drinking will lower your aerobic capacity the next day, and will impair your recovery - you know that you are happier in general when you don’t drink. But then a friend invites you over, and it’s been a stressful day, and they offer you a beer, and you say to yourself “I know that I will be happier in the future if I stay sober. But right now I really want this beer. Fuck it.” And then you wake up the next morning with a hangover and say “that was dumb, why did I do that?”

The “guilt” in guilty pleasure doesn’t have to be based on arcane moral codes. It can just be guilt about doing something we know is against our own best interests, by the standards we set for ourselves.

Saying you don’t feel guilty about your pleasures either means that you never do this (ie, you’re a liar), or else it means that you literally put no stock in the future (ie, you’re a dumbass), or that you are so insecure that you are trying to sidestep the question because you can’t bring yourself to admit you have any flaws.

I can find no fault with anything you just said. Except maybe that having a thing for being abused spans all genders and sexual identities.

Sorry brochacho - my archetype does some basic skin care and then hits the gym. Cause I’m a big, strong manly man who don’t want no makeup. I’m sure somebody else here has makeup tips for you, though!

I find that spanning inferential distances is typically best accomplished by starting from obvious facts. When you say something that sounds dumb because it is so obvious, you’ve found a good starting point for creating shared understanding.

Whatever. It gives off the impression of confidence. We’re trying to explain observed phenomena here, not cast moral judgements.

I’ve known many women who were very nice and intelligent, who dated assholes. Usually they end the relationship thinking “ugh, why did I do that? That guy was such an asshole.”

They do this because women are human, and do the very human thing of making mistakes and regretting them.

As others have said - this is not really how to get girls to be into you. This is one particular person’s fetish. They like goth-y, androgenous guys.

If you are a goth-y, androgenous guy, and you have wanted to wear black eyeliner but felt nervous about it and have been putting it off - here’s your cue. Go do that.

If you aren’t, then don’t do that. It might help you out a little since, as OP implies, it will make you stand out. But since you aren’t presenting yourself, but rather a charicature of someone else, you will feel inauthentic in the look, women will notice that you feel weird, and you won’t be much better off than you started. Maybe worse off, if your normal outfit was already working.

In the… Let’s call it the “autistic guys getting laid community”, there is a lot of chatter around “archetype”. How you dress and style yourself is a conscious decision you make every day, and it is how you make your first impression on any women you want to sleep with. So if you were to introduce yourself to a sexy somebody, what would you want to tell them about yourself? Well, first you need to tell them that you give enough of a shit about what you look like to put some time into looking good. Next, you’d want to tell them interesting things about yourself - what you value, what your job or hobbies are, what communities you are part of. But at the same time, you want to make sure you are communicating well - putting together an outfit based on “I just like it” and “this has something to do with who I am” is like introducing yourself in mandarin to a girl in Barcelona. Fitting your outfit to something that is immediately understandable within your broader culture is called dressing to your “archetype”. Are you a skateboarder? Then dress like a skateboarder - stylishly ripped jeans, t shirt, flannel, beanie. A businessman? Wear a suit or a polo. A communist revolutionary? Rock your Che beret!

What makes women universally cream themselves? Say it with me: confidence. And a confident man is going to dress in a way that stands out and expresses who he is, because he knows that this is a great way to attract others to him who are similar. So: look good; look different; look like something identifiable.

It’s not a bad look, but it also isn’t helping you out. You’ll need to work with your body, facial attractiveness, and personality - which can do a lot. But not improving how you dress (not necessarily as a goth, but in some way that makes you look good and expresses yourself in a way that others understand) will leave a lot on the table.

Being an asshole implies confidence.

Women like confidence.

That’s fair. But at the same time, I think his actions fit the definition of terrorism - politically motivated violence - to the letter.

I think it’s more likely that a few C level execs just tried using AI to do their jobs for more than 10 minutes, said “man, this really doesn’t live up to the hype”, and wisely decided to hold off until AI wasn’t a huge waste of time.