• Wren@lemmy.today
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    16 days ago

    I used to dye my hair a different colour every month. Can confirm, it repells the kind of people I don’t want to sleep with. My ex got mad because I’m a natural blonde and “why would I ruin that.”

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      16 days ago

      It can be rough, but when a good one shows up it’s really amazing. Men can be so interesting and kind and sweet.

      Luckily they aren’t generally the ones to be offended by women choosing how they want to present :)

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          16 days ago

          Every good one I’ve found in my life was found through shared activities that had nothing to do with dating or romance until later. The absolute worst ones in my life were blind date setups.

          • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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            15 days ago

            I found my husband by playing tabletop rpgs! I did not play to find a husband! That’s important. I played and had fun and found a smart interesting human!

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              15 days ago

              My SO of over 20 years and I met each other playing RPGs and card games. And exactly: friends with shared interests first, lovers later.

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          15 days ago

          I say this both bitterly sardonic of they way people handle relationships and oozing almost Hallmark levels of radiant positivity as it is where I found my spouse: check the friend zone.

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            15 days ago

            I am attempting to put myself out there more but I’ve been having mixed results. Really, really mixed results. Responding right now because the person I’ve been spending a lot of time with recently and considering just turned out to have some values that are just incompatible with mine. I really didn’t expect that from them given who they are, who we met through and so on.

            I also feel like I’m going to have to settle sometimes and I’d just sooner be alone than do that.

            • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              I also feel like I’m going to have to settle sometimes and I’d just sooner be alone than do that.

              Don’t settle! Relationships don’t have to last forever to be considered successful in my opinion. You can enjoy sharing your time with someone and appreciate it for what it was when it’s over and that’s still totally ok.

              There’s billions of people in the world. It’s very hard to find another person who is compatible enough to share your life with, but there’s fun and experiences to be had on the journey looking for them.

        • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          15 days ago

          I dated. A lot. Went on so, so many dates after my divorce and met lots and lots of different people.

          When meeting people through apps, I would text quite a bit first AND set up a video-call as a sort of test date. If they still seemed cool, I would go on an in-person date.

          It helps weed out the assholes a lot, but it’s time and labor intensive.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    One of the things I love about my husband: he might prefer me with long blond hair but I don’t know because sometimes I decide to cut it off short or dye it black or purple and for the last 35 years he has just said, I see you got your hair done.

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      16 days ago

      I was really nervous to bring up to my boyfriend that I wanted to shave the side of my head. My ex husband would have blown a gasket.

      I shaved it and it’s not a problem at all because he doesn’t love my hair, he loves me :)

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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    16 days ago

    Sure, Steve. I guess wearing shades and clothes while moving inside an iron box propelled by the combustion of a liquid extracted from the remains of millions of years old beings is completely natural, Steve. You see a lot of animals doing it aside humans, right Steve?

    Smh… Imagine being scared of a woman’s hair color… Steve’s ego must be really fragile, huh?

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      I’m reminded of a throwaway line in an old game’s historical timeline. “Seattle taken over by Nazis. Thousands flee. Hundreds of thousands invest in peroxide.” (Paraphrased because I don’t have the book readily available.)

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    If you look at it from the perspective of bird culture, flamboyant color is a highly masculine trait, being pretty much exclusive to males biologically in many species. Maybe Steve feels emasculated by a superior show of color.

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    I love it when they tell on themselves!

    I’ve always been a huge fan of these colourful looks. I wish I could get something like a gradient/ombré but I’m scared of damaging my sparse and very thin hair too much.

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    16 days ago

    Ma1ybe had a clever comeback but she conveniently ignored the “poisonous & toxic lethality” part Steve mentioned about animals in nature. Ok but for humans it doesn’t correlate with poison or toxicity. It’s just art & fun & self-expression.