So the actual text in these posts is probably fake but I'm sad to say I've known two guys who act like this. Its not a ton, its not a majority of the guys I know, but like. Two is a lot for being THIS moronic. And they both seem like nice enough people at first. One of them is married to a pretty nice girl who just didn't see it until it was too late. RIP.

That said, posting this kind of stuff kinda irks me since it can end up making that reality seem more imaginary than it really is. Plus, people like me who have had that experience in real life don't need internet posts to teach them that this is the way it is, and people who haven't had that experience in real life probably aren't going to update their perception of reality based on posts like this. So these posts still kinda end up useless despite being fairly representative of reality.

God I hope not. Our society is fucked if it is.

I took it as a half assed neg for sure

But this guy read the game in an even more deluded way than the average reader and thought he could just say "I am the prize" and have it be true

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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 🫣

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