Are they really such amazing actors

Unfortunately I don't think they need to be good actors in the first place.

One of the lessons of the last decade of the shit show that we call human society has been that awful and/or stupid people rise to positions of power and influence every day by acting confident and promising things they can't deliver.

The modern confidence man isn't the thief of the street but the legitimate executive.

I was a fool for this type of shit once. Granted, I was 17, with no emotional intelligence or confidence. He saw an opportunity to be able to control someone, and it worked. I will honestly never forgive myself for the years I wasted. Unfortunately, this is not uncommon.

People can turn on a dime, I've seen it happen. It's especially infuriating because a lot of these men's friends will only know the good version of them and refuse to believe they're capable of being dicks.

It's not just good acting, it's that some men genuinely aren't capable of treating a partner like a person and not a thing. So they can be nice to people they consider people, or to partners who are behaving they way they deem is correct. But the second you're dating and something doesn't fit their narrative of how things should play out, the claws come out.

50/50 this dude is super attractive and has never had to learn any better. I knew several of these in college. This has worked for them.

About 7 years ago, my now-wife and I had just moved to this city and she was struggling to find work. We attended a few networking events to try to figure out the job market for her field here.

Now, I mean. I know my wife is hot. She was then, she is now. She can and has stopped traffic. People have fallen off bikes to gawp at her. Women have thrown themselves at her. Men act like boys around her.

At this professional networking event, while my wife had stepped away, a man wearing a 3-piece suit and clearly well into his career turned to me and said “I don’t mean to sound disrespectful, but she’s … really … beautiful.” The overall affectation and delivery was fawning, cautious, even. He was kind of moon-eyed. The guys around him all nodded somberly, as if they’d been stricken.
He had been talking with the men around him when we wandered over, and they all went a bit quiet when we came over.

Clearly, I still remember the compliment. It was a great testament to how hot my wife is. She’s a babe. (And like, fun, funny, and sweet and all the other stuff that makes relationships work.)

Being told you’re a lucky guy to have the girl you’re with is pretty much the height of cishet male-to-male compliments

I personally would be more likely to interpret that as being told I'm not good enough for her. But that's just me.

I regret to inform you shit like this happens all the time.

Well you see she was supposed to pay half, but be demur about it, like a real lady

with progressive dating values

Well, there's a whole bunch of moronic conservatives in the world....

My grandmother was a slut and liked to brag about it. And she was one of my favorite people. Dress slutty, act slutty, or don't. As long as you're proud of who you are, and don't judge others for not being you, then you're cool.

Side note: I was so proud of the number of people at my grandmother's funeral who told me that their first interaction with her was that she told them how to have an organ using the bubble jets in the community hot tub.

Hate it when my girlfriend dresses hot cuz then I'm horny all the time.

JK she's always hot and I'm always horny all the time 🫣

Knew who this was before even seeing the username, legend.

Some bald twat in a foreign prison (previously) told him it's not him, it's her, and they believed it.

Practical example of male loneliness.

Soviet Union called, I think we grabbed some of theirs too by mistake

Tons of fake rage bait posts everywhere?