Disagreement in /r/xkcd after Randall fires shots through the friendzone

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created by [deleted] on 03/02/2014 at 17:07 UTC

170 upvotes, 15 top-level comments (showing 15)

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Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 18:48 UTC

64 upvotes, 4 direct replies

I really hope they know that Randall the "virgin neckbeard" is married...

Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 18:27 UTC

97 upvotes, 4 direct replies

Yes I'll let this fedora wearing virgin Randall tell me how to pull tail LOL. The only reflection I need is in the back of the heads of the HB8s I fuck from knowing what women really want

I call Poe. Right?

Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 18:39 UTC

91 upvotes, 2 direct replies

back of the head of HB8s

Is this guy fucking pencils?

I don't understand.

Comment by david-me at 03/02/2014 at 17:16 UTC

143 upvotes, 5 direct replies

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Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 19:00 UTC

50 upvotes, 3 direct replies

xkcd has already done a "friend zone" comic

Comment by awrf at 03/02/2014 at 19:55 UTC

51 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Of course, /r/TheRedPill has to fire their own shots[1].

1: http://np.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/1ww24u/epilogue_on_the_xkcd_story_white_knighting_via/

His humor is great, but his white knighting knows no bounds. He should stick to subjects that his aspie ass can grok. [+12]

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White-knighting is utterly pathetic. No man who goes to bat for "women" or apologizes "for men" could ever have my respect again. It is utterly misguided, Stockholm-syndrome level delusion. [+9]

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fuck that bp turd and his stick figures. [+6]

Comment by BolshevikMuppet at 03/02/2014 at 23:43 UTC

22 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The problem is that there's a certain population of men who honestly view "girls say they want a nice guy" as meaning that "nice guy" is the only criterion on which they would possibly be judged.

When *anyone* says "I want someone [insert characteristic here]" they mean they want that in *addition* to things like "being physically attractive." When a guy says he wants a nerdy girl (or a girl says she wants a nerdy guy) he's not saying he'll date any nerdy girl who crosses his path, he's saying it's a *plus*.

Being "nice" is the bare goddamned minimum. If you don't have more in a relationship to offer than that, you're not going to get anyone who themselves has more good qualities than "she's nice."

Comment by havesomedownvotes at 03/02/2014 at 17:10 UTC*

24 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Comment graveyard already, but the popcorn keeps popping. Will it leak into SRD?

EDIT: Related question, do bears still shit in the woods?

Comment by Cardboard_Boxer at 03/02/2014 at 21:34 UTC

13 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Of course, anyone who mentions the elephant in the room[1] of this relating to the subreddit's mods gets his/her post deleted. The CSS has even been altered to make it slightly less obvious[2].

1: http://np.reddit.com/r/xkcdcomic/comments/1wvahb/rejection/cf5uhl0

2: http://np.reddit.com/r/xkcdcomic/comments/1wvahb/rejection/cf5z1rv

Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 22:26 UTC

27 upvotes, 3 direct replies

I like XKCD, and Randall is obviously very smart, but he's very preachy when it comes to relationships, and I don't think he's quite as clued in to human interaction as he thinks he is.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 18:21 UTC

12 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The moment I saw the comic I knew that the butthurt would butter my popcorn for the day.

Comment by [deleted] at 04/02/2014 at 14:57 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

You're going to get backlash when you fight stereotypes with stereotypes.

Attacking "women want assholes" with "everyone who laments that is an asshole" just means we've taken a step to the left instead of improving things for anyone.

Comment by ForIvadell at 05/02/2014 at 04:37 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The eros thing is amazing.

Comment by a_little_duck at 04/02/2014 at 06:34 UTC

-4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Well, the fact is that this particular comic uses some kind of circular reasoning:

Let's start with person A who gets rejected by person B.

Person A doesn't "respond to the rejection by belittling their judgement and self-awareness". So, according to this comic, person A is the kind of person that B wants.

Therefore, A retroactively doesn't get rejected? That doesn't work.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 21:47 UTC*

-20 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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