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You have no theory of mind of the human male. Its seriously off like comedically off.
If men could get laid that easily they would all rack up 20-30 partners each. Its literally what sperm cells are for! To spread the seed. Why do you think nature imbued the ability in men to impregnant a woman minimum a day forever.. to not want to do it??? Women literally can pass on their genes only once every 9 months at minimum. Where is the female Ghenghis Khan? Literally cannot exist.
What the fuck do you think men who could get laid all the time are doing? They get laid all the time. The ones who arent are not doing it for a lack of want.
Unfortunately I dont think telling you anything at all even in the most explicits terms will do anything at all, you will still make the same comment every time this topic comes up and refuse to engage with any criticism. Rinse, wash, repeat.
Go watch the youtube videos of Norah Vincent or read accounts of FtM trans people and tell me if they conclude being a guy is not even merely harder but orders of maginitude nightmare difficulty harder relative to a woman trying to get laid. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Also its not hard to benchpress 100kg/225lbs most guys do it after a year of lifting, I dont know why so few women do.. its not that hard really.
Look, I know its easier for the avg guy to get laid than it is for the 90th p woman to benchpress 225, im not a moron. But its not as easy as YOU think it is, guys just do it just like how they do all the other hard things women cant even do, doesnt mean its easy. Calling things you cant do easy, is moronic. You wont catch me saying childbirth is easy even if I know most women can do it.
And im pretty confident you cant because women in general have 0 game/rizz, do a gender swap on your own face and hit tinder and set up a date if you dont believe me. Hint: starting conversation with "hey hows it going" or hi wont work. https://youtube.com/watch?v=DZTIbHIsIYw (Or if you wnt a more realistic experience talk to your dad or your brother or male cousins, I assume they should be somewhat good facsimiles of the male you, if they don't immediately laugh at your idea, congrats you have excellent genetics)
Where are all the female comedians if cracking a few jokes is so easy? Perhaps females dont need to develop a sense of humor to get laid, idk.
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