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OnlyPolls 10w
Is it incel behavior for someone to analogize dating to a “stock market” and people with “market value”?
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Anonymous 10w

This is how a lot of cultures treat dating, and how it was often treated in the past, so I wouldn’t necessarily call it incel behavior

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Anonymous 10w

In some ways, such as buying and trading stocks and ownership and such, the metaphor doesn't really hold up most of the time. The only area I could see it holding up in is by saying a person's romantic value changes over time just like a stock's monetary value does, although that's not much of a metaphor since you can just say "a person's romantic value changes over time" and you don't need to compare it to anything else, people will get it.

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Anonymous 9w

“Hey baby what’s your value-add?”

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Anonymous 10w

Out of the loop on this but could someone explain why?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

Because ur treating people like objects

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

We try to treat everyone as equals but when you give everyone a market value then people are clearly not equal

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Yeah, but people are clearly not treated equally. It’s dumb to read into it a bunch, but there’s a reason it’s been referred to as the “dating market” for years. On an individual basis the human element obviously takes precedent, but on a macro scale, it’s just supply and demand

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Isn’t this how society as a whole (relationships aside) work? There’s rich people and poor people and they clearly don’t get the same treatment?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

I think it’s kind of the opposite, using “supply and demand” or anything like that just kind of assumes that everyone is exactly the same, and nothing matters besides quantity of people. when people obviously vary a lot, and have vastly different wants in relationships. It reduces dating down to “I want a gf” instead of like, learning about people and finding someone you connect with

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