>>24522281The problem with women trying to feign surplus interiority turned inward like this is that they come across like fat spoiled princesses with no priorities, no quests, no longings other than "fun." To a man at least, a woman is basically a big fat noblewoman sitting on needlessly colorful cushions and eating needlessly sweet sweets. For that creature to go "oh heavens me, have you ever thought that the chocolate strawberries aren't as impressive as the chocolate strawberry salesman says they are? personally I prefer chocolate blueberries" doesn't mean anything. It's just a big stupid pig with a stupid bow with sequins on it, with no desire not to be a big or even to escape the pigpen.
Imagine having the good fortune to possess enough writing talent that you can get noticed and picked up, and spending it on writing Guess Whick Dick I Prefer and Guess Which Dick I Prefer 2: Guess Which Dick I DON'T Prefer. There's nothing in this that speaks to a man, it's a spoiled little gay kid saying "actually I DON'T give a fuck you bought me a PS5 mom." Whoa! Off-script! I was expecting the rich kid who likes expensive things to like all expensive things, not to be slightly jaded and bitter and cunty about how some of his unearned expensive things impress him slightly less than others!
The irony is that the men who are being described like props and foils in these stories always end up ending up having more character and being more sympathetic than the protagonist. As I read this I don't think "hmm yes, the hipster guys are fags," I think, "wow, all that effort put into being a hipster guy and she still dashes you with a fingertip because you were a little 'too much' hipster and hipster is passé apparently; wonder what it's like to be a man who stabilized himself as an archetype to impress women and then have it all be for naught? I wonder what that hipster guy is up to, I wonder what he'd think if he knew how she feels about him. I wonder what Trevor thinks about being preferred to the hipster; do you think he'd be disgusted by this ugly-souled broad's cynicism and look right through her at the hipster and make a friend?"
I could just give less than a fuck what impresses or doesn't impress Jaded Princess Faineant.