Comments by "Gareth Hart" (@tgheretford) on "Sydney Watson" channel.

  1. > "Just go out and find someone to kiss". Considering how most dating, particularly from the last year onwards is done online and worldwide, plus the dynamics of online dating where the vast majority of women are chasing the top 15-20% of men, its probably no surprise that increasing numbers of men are finding themselves lonely, rejected and even reaching for OnlyFans for any female contact.
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  2. I'm reminded of the Jimmy Saville case in the UK. People kept quiet despite knowing for decades while he was alive because of the power he held, his public reputation would mean the accuser would be denigrated and the danger of being sued for defamation. The only people who were confident to say anything were Johnny Rotten and the comedians who could say "its just a joke". After he passed away and could no longer sue for defamation, everything came out.
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  3. Of course, the term "misogyny" is now being extrapolated to a wide range of behaviors, which means that every single man could easily be put into the category of "misogynist". The ironic thing being is that this categorising of all men for being men and having original sin WILL create actual misogynists! Never mind the social consequences of segregating the sexes and having men drop out of society.
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  4. The problem with the "it's a private company" argument is that it allows authoritarians to get private companies to do their dirty work. Private companies can be just as tyrannical as a state can be when they have huge power and wealth.
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  5. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have a strict no politics rule for the contest. Except for identity politics, it appears.
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  6. The Internet celebrates adult women who sleep with 1000 men but deem an adult man who has slept with none as shameful.
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  7. If a man who can't find a partner called a woman a "birthing person" on a forum, social network or comments section, he would be universally labelled a misogynist and journalists would be scrambling to turn it into a column decrying sexist men online.
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  8. It's a symptom, not the root cause. What is causing men to seek those alternatives?
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  9. ​ @lainiwakura1776  The "normal women" are in long term relationships. Any good woman is very quickly snapped up if she ends up on the dating market (in real life, unlikely on dating apps). The women who you are increasingly finding on dating sites have issues, refuse to compromise while blaming men for all their shortcomings. A man who behaved like that would be called entitled, sexist and a virgin.
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  10. Aren't the people who use the term "birthing person" the same people decrying certain men for dehumanising women by accusing said men of treating women as objects and pieces of meat? Pot, kettle, black?
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  11. All Trump's executive order did was shift the issue from women's spaces and identity to men. Only the gender changed, nothing else.
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  12. What I tend to find in these discussion and media coverage is that the men get blamed (and yes, they shouldn't simp) but the women are either ignored for their culpability or treated as victims of said 'predatory, entitled and sexist' men. What isn't being discussed or acknowledged is how the women who create this "content" have agency and free will to do this (unlike the allegations being made against the horizontal tango websites) or the dynamic as to why women create such "content" and men consume it. The former exposes Schrodinger's Feminism and the answer for the latter is considered taboo for discussion.
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  13. Individuals and organisations do not want critique, mockery, satire or disagreement to be made against them. They abuse YouTube's copyright reporting system to do this already but are now lobbying Governments, including the US, to make it a crime. In the UK, under the Online Safety Act, it already is a crime.
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  14. It might die out by July because of the UK Government's age verification requirements that goes far beyond what has been implemented in several US states that had adult websites block them. As an aside, OF is a UK based business and it's likely they'll close or ban adult material and nudity.
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  15.  @ryandare1636  Relationships don't tend to work out when founded on a lie.
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  16. They might have a problem come July when the UK Government's age verification requirements are mandated. I suspect OF will either close or ban adult material and nudity because implementing isn't going to be viable for such sites.
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  17. Impossible to stop unless you shut down the whole Internet and enact a national Intranet where everything is controlled by the state and users can not upload content. That would put you in the same company as North Korea, Iran, Myanmar and Cuba. The UK is having that public discussion now due to a number of tragedies involving teenagers to "protect the children", expanding this to social media.
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  18. Physical attractiveness unlocks opportunities in life, gives you social capital and allows people to network to success (it's who you know, not what you know). For men, height is also a key aspect of what women find attractive. And people want attention because that is key to social capital and with everything being image based on physical attractiveness and status, people expect perfection. That's why people focus on these things unconsciously. The people who can't succeed in either tend to be the ones who campaign against these (such as the body positivity movement and no make up crowd). I personally engage in neither because well... age and didn't win either the genetic or upbringing lottery to put it mildly.
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  19. I wonder if situations like this and the rise of obesity will bring about Japanese style yearly health checks as a requirement for employment and I suspect, expanded as a requirement to receive welfare. In terms of the financial aspect of running an airline, it would be better for planes to ban overweight people than sell two seats on the basis that if someone who needs two seats cancels, they lose two sources of revenue compared to one for two average people in the same seats. They won't do it because of the backlash they will get, but there is now a growing backlash from the rest of society, the silent majority.
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  20. @Computron64  The EU is expecting member states to follow suit in 2026. You can't play whack a mole with moving the HQ because it is too costly to keep doing.
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  21.  @tomsmarkovs1946  Social status. The key factor that determines a man's sexual and relationship success.
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  22. This is how we are all going to end up with online safety laws. Because if the parents do not want to parent, the Government will.
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  23. There are feminists who called a certain shamed celebrity a groomer for having relations with someone who was near 25 years old. If people want age gap laws and higher age of consent/adulthood laws, they need to contact their representatives. The problem is, the law is binary and there has to be a line somewhere. Without the line, you have a grey area and that enables loopholes. I also think there is a sex-negative, prudish and intrasexual competition elements to the demands to raise the age of adulthood too.
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  24. It's already happened. The Hermoine Granger countdown websites to when her actress, Emma Watson, turned 16, the age of consent in the UK, were widely condemned.
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  25. Spain: Equality in politics. Also Spain: 60% quota of women in politics. See also, media. And this isn't the scaremongering of "woman bashing" red pill commentators either, it's been covered recently in numerous Spanish media outlets. This will spread everywhere, media included - boiling frog style.
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  26. The ironic thing is that the UK could have the Government compel workers and welfare recipients to diet and gym memberships under a forthcoming obesity strategy. Probably to get everone fit for a future war.
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  27. A good number of people really do take exception at the findings of evolutionary psychology and find out that life isn't all Disney tales and happily ever after for most men - the ones who are deemed "ghosts" by the opposite sex and the stigma of being long term single as a man.
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  28. It's as if a group of gamers eight years ago were correct in the direction the gaming industry and its journalists were going.
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  29. It will be impossible to stop unless you go full North Korea or Iran and shut down the Internet and replace it with a national Intranet where everything is under complete and total state control of what the public sees. The UK is already having a serious discussion of doing this in the future to "protect the children" after a number of tragedies involving teenagers and social media.
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  30. Translation of entitled female gaming critic: "how dare you find happiness in a hobby for yourself. You should do things for MEEEEEE!!!!!"
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  31.  @SydneyWatson  Those women are either young and have no trouble attracting someone or are in long term relationships and cheating is immoral. When you get to middle age, it's grim. Either women don't want to date or they have more red flags than a Chinese parade.
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  32. A symptom, not the root cause.
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  33. The Government will make being overweight illegal under an "obesity strategy". Fat people can't fight in a war.
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  34. From what I understand, there is already dissent by politicians in the UK who will accept women's spaces for biological women exclusively but will refuse to abide by the ruling. What they intend to do is eradicate men's spaces and identity. Which is also illegal under the Equality Act.
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  35. I think we are at the point where everyone is going to have to declare YouTube as an enemy of fair use/fair dealing, the copyright ID/reporting system is antithetical to said concept and act as such that zero discussion, review or critique is the only approved option. Coincidentally just mentioning the name of the competition can also get you in trouble (that's why companies use the term "Summer Games"). I would put the IOC alongside Disney and Nintendo.
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  36. I worry that the solution that is started to be presented and I noted prominent UK commentators on this issue are promoting this indirectly too - that instead of erasing women's identity and having biological men going into women's spaces and sports, that the solution is to erase men's identity and that women are allowed into men's spaces and sports but not the other way round. If it is wrong to erase women's identity, why is it deemed acceptable by many to erase men's identity? Even more so from those who claim to promote gender equality and equal rights for both sexes.
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  37. @ I suspect they will just clothe up and offer "girlfriend experiences" for the same fee. The ironic thing being come July is that the only way to see a woman naked is if she is in your house or her house in front of you in real life.
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  38. As is always the case, follow the money and solve the root cause of the problem. Don't criticise the hustle, look at why there is a market there.
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  39. If you want to know why you should oppose social credit where private companies and the state can bankrupt you and make you a social pariah for having wrongful opinions, this is it. Because when that comes in as a concept enforced by digital ID, punishments and consequences will be applied to everything, not just the service to you from a single private company.
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  40.  @LEP021085  Most people tend to subscribe to the concept of a "soulmate". It's as fictional as Harry Potter. Society shields people from uncomfortable truths by implementing belief systems, such as heaven and hell to cope with our mortality. Same with dating and relationships, most people shield themselves and others with belief systems told by Disney fairy tales and other fictional concepts. Sadly, genetics, biology, evolution, the dating market, preferences and the divorce courts don't care about people's feelings or how much you can lift or socialise outside your home.
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  41. They're in for a nasty shock come July. The UK Government is going to implement very strict age verification requirements that will be too cumbersome (excuse the pun) and expensive to implement and OF (who are based in the UK) will likely end up dropping the adult content. Women will likely clothe up and go to offering "girlfriend experiences". The women featured in this video are on borrowed time.
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  42. Birth control has not just had an effect on the individual level, it has also brought effects and consequences to culture and ideologies. Biology. Culture. Ideology.
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  43. The problem, outside of the USA and the First Amendment, is that even if you try to avoid copyright infringement, now critique, mockery, satire and disagreement is being shut down and both individuals and organisations are exploiting the copyright claim system on YouTube to do this. Said groups want Governments to make this law and if she were to do this from the UK, Sydney could face consequences for her re-enactment under the Online Safety Act. Other countries, including the US, are looking to enact similar online safety and public order laws for online and offline conduct.
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  44. I suspect the solution that will be presented for this will be the erasure of the identity of men and boys, the removal of opportunities for them and a hierarchy being implemented to replace equal rights. And very few people will oppose this.
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