Quote from: Hargbeast on February 08, 2016, 05:17:33 PMWhy exactly do people need to feel validated?Are they so insecure that they need someone else to tell them how great they are?Sometimes it's to get people off your back. At least for me it is.I've got fucking people everywhere breathing down my neck about shit like that and the only time I flipped on the kill switch to give them a retort salvo back, it ended poorly. I can't go anywhere with somebody in my town who knows me making a god damn comment about the fact I'm on my own with no partner of any kind.
Why exactly do people need to feel validated?Are they so insecure that they need someone else to tell them how great they are?
Quote from: Sandtrap on February 08, 2016, 07:35:09 PMQuote from: Hargbeast on February 08, 2016, 05:17:33 PMWhy exactly do people need to feel validated?Are they so insecure that they need someone else to tell them how great they are?Sometimes it's to get people off your back. At least for me it is.I've got fucking people everywhere breathing down my neck about shit like that and the only time I flipped on the kill switch to give them a retort salvo back, it ended poorly. I can't go anywhere with somebody in my town who knows me making a god damn comment about the fact I'm on my own with no partner of any kind.They need others. They're weak. Why should you care about their opinions?
Quote from: Sandtrap on February 08, 2016, 07:35:09 PMSometimes it's to get people off your back. At least for me it is.I've got fucking people everywhere breathing down my neck about shit like that and the only time I flipped on the kill switch to give them a retort salvo back, it ended poorly. I can't go anywhere with somebody in my town who knows me making a god damn comment about the fact I'm on my own with no partner of any kind.Fucking faggot I bet you kiss girls
Sometimes it's to get people off your back. At least for me it is.I've got fucking people everywhere breathing down my neck about shit like that and the only time I flipped on the kill switch to give them a retort salvo back, it ended poorly. I can't go anywhere with somebody in my town who knows me making a god damn comment about the fact I'm on my own with no partner of any kind.
Just to preface, I really have no problem with services like these; if someone wants to pay hundreds of dollars per hour to hang out with an attractive person, it's their business. What really gets me about this article is how this story would be vilified in today's society if the roles were switched; if some white guy in a dry spell hired a hot ethnic woman to look good in front of family and wrote an article like this, sites just like this would be shitting all over him for objectifying women and being a sexist. But when a woman does it, it's a heartwarming story of validation and romance.
Quote from: Jarihat Turkia on February 06, 2016, 12:34:45 PMJust to preface, I really have no problem with services like these; if someone wants to pay hundreds of dollars per hour to hang out with an attractive person, it's their business. What really gets me about this article is how this story would be vilified in today's society if the roles were switched; if some white guy in a dry spell hired a hot ethnic woman to look good in front of family and wrote an article like this, sites just like this would be shitting all over him for objectifying women and being a sexist. But when a woman does it, it's a heartwarming story of validation and romance.Men hire escorts all the time.
Here's another article from The Atlantic detailing a similar story to the OP, basically a romanticized retelling of a journalists night out with a male escort.
Female journalist hires a male escort and feels "validated"
