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I don't know where you got this idea that every unattractive person who wants to date people will at some point end up in an ambulance as a result, but it's bullshit. To illustrate my point:
Attractive people can be victims of domestic violence. Rihanna. April Hernandez-Castillo. Tina Turner. Robin Givens. Bree Olson. Whitney Houston. Tyra Banks. Denise Richards. Brett Rossi. Oksana Grigorieva. Alice Kim. Kelly LeBrock. Pamela Anderson. There are numerous other examples, but I think I've made my point - none of these women are unattractive, and all have been victims of domestic violence.
Many unattractive people in romantic relationships go their whole lives without needing to call an ambulance for any reason, including domestic violence. This point seems so self-evident that it hardly even needs justifying, but if you must see hard data before considering that you might be simply wrong, Women's Aid Ireland reported about 30,000 contacts with Irish women reporting domestic abuse in 2022. Even allowing that this is a huge undercount of the real number of victims (let's say, of a factor of 3): if 90,000 women are victims of domestic abuse in Ireland every year, there's something like 2 million adult women in Ireland. This suggests that (thankfully!) domestic abuse is something only experienced by a minority of people, between 1.5-4.5% of women in a calendar year. Even the most pessimistic feminist campaigns I've seen suggest that 1 in 4 women will experience it in their lifetime, which obviously means that 3 in 4 won't (and this 1 in 4 figure sometimes includes types of abuse for which no ambulance would be necessary). We're privileged to live in an era in which even the most passionate progressive campaigners must begrudgingly acknowledge that violence is the exception rather than the rule.
Perhaps you're making an inappropriate generalisation from a social circle made up of unusually unlucky people. Perhaps your social circle is actually no more unlucky than average, and you're just fixating on the one or two unusually unlucky people it contains as a means to justify/excuse your self-pity and avoidant tendencies. If you can show me hard evidence that literally every single unattractive person who wants to be in a romantic relationship will at some point be the victim of domestic abuse severe enough to require an ambulance, I would love to see it. You won't show it to me, because we both know it doesn't exist and this is all just part of some weird mind game you're playing with yourself.
Please don't insult my intelligence by backtracking and claiming that "ambulances" can refer to something other than domestic violence. You said 'the question facing unattractive people who want to date is this: "Where do you want the ambulances?"' You can be single your whole life, never seek out a relationship with anyone, and still end up in an ambulance from a heart attack caused by your obesity.
The guy with the 450-pound partner and the woman married to Smokestack our engineering hero aren't facing domestic violence in relationships. The ambulances can be and often are domestic violence, but they can come from plenty of other things as well. Like congestive heart failure from supermorbid obesity. Or good old-fashioned lung cancer from a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit and smoking pot like fucking Snoop Dogg.
Consider the sky high - 80 percent, by some metrics - abuse/victimization rate reported by autistic women. This is still well north of half even if you just look at autistic women with normal IQs.
None of these have anything to do with "being an unattractive person who wants to date". As I explicitly said in the comment you're replying to, literally the sentence after the one you quoted - you can be single your whole life, never even ask anyone out, and develop obesity-related congestive heart failure. Not everyone who is unattractive is obese, however. Likewise, lung cancer can affect anyone: attractive, unattractive, single, married. Most people don't smoke (including most unattractive people). Life expectancy being what it is, most people (whether attractive or not, in relationships or not) will go their whole lives without any major health problems before being hospitalised with heart disease or cancer in their late 70s. Most people will go their whole lives without ever seeing the inside of an ambulance.
So what you're really saying isn't so much 'the question facing unattractive people who want to date is this: "Where do you want the ambulances?"', but rather 'the question facing
unattractive people who want to datehuman beings is this: "Where do you want theambulanceshospitals?"' Congratulations on having finally noticed that everyone dies eventually - attractive, unattractive, married, single, suave, socially awkward, it doesn't matter. Kind of surprised that this realisation is coming as so much of a shock to a literal doctor in training, but whatever. Sorry to say that "everyone will die eventually" isn't as original an insight into the human condition as "every unattractive person who wants to date will eventually end up in an ambulance" - but the former statement has the benefit of not being complete and utter bollocks.Once again - show me evidence (actual evidence, not the two or three acquaintances of yours you've been fixated on for months) that every unattractive person who wants to date will eventually end up in an ambulance. At the minimum, show me evidence that unattractive people in relationships, or unattractive people who want to be in relationships, are more likely to be obese and/or heavy smokers than unattractive single people. Otherwise I have to say your worldview has literally nothing going for it.
"Metrics" which you're conveniently refusing to provide. Also, are you claiming that all autistic women are unattractive? I'll note that Daryl Hannah, for one, was widely considered a sex symbol for two decades.
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