cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15924270
The manosphere has a new dating hack: stop showering and let yourself stink
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/manosphere-dating-hack-pheromone-maxxing-b3039600.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/manosphere-dating-hack-pheromone-maxxing-b3039600.html
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15924270
65 Comments
wuffah@lemmy.world · 99 pts · 2d
Why does every crazy ideology always end up back at drinking piss?
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2d
"Bah! To hell with this! Get my razor! Draw a bath! And get these Kleenex boxes off my feet!"
"Certainly, sir! And, uh, the jars of urine?"
"Ooh... we'll hang on to those."
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Tantalizingly familiar reference.
Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror episode take off of Creepshow?
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6fe2d833-b653-4717-be7f-f08706fee95b
Malica@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 1d
Because "lol look what I got these idiots to do"
yakko@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 2d
They say handsome is as handsome does. Turns out, same vice-versa
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · -1 pts · 1d
Literally just physiognomy
yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1d
Alright, next time you use a common colloquialism I'll strip away all the context and we'll see how you do.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1d
... Your literal context is physiognomy, while the saying could at least be argued to be about grooming and behavior instead.
yakko@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1d
I don't see where anyone brought up physiognomy. Are you saying I did? Look up the meaning of the idiom, it's the exact diagonal opposite.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 1d
If I kissed a guy and he tasted like urine, he'd be lucky if I didn't vomit in his mouth.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d
Because it's sterile, and they like the taste.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1d
It's an interesting strategy.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 70 pts · 2d
Yeah man… not even gonna try to stop them from this one. Let the stench be a warning.
Delphia@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
Scary part is that this one might work, my wife gets all handsy when I smell of sweat, dirt and cut grass.
Its not like discount bodywash and Lynx Africa is exactly setting yourself apart.
mlg@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2d
That's the smell of physical labor not the smell of sitting on your ass fumes that is being suggested lol.
EDIT: Also want to point out some cultures use so much perfume that it most definitely does make a difference on what you are wearing, although my nose feels like its getting pepper sprayed whenever I step into a mall with like 30 perfume shops lined up lmao
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
If I use perfume at all, it will be the least noticable thing possible. I want to be noticed as little as possible in real life.
So I want to not smell at all, if possible. I like that stinging nettle nonsense for some reason, so I use that shampoo. Mentol is cool too.
Just nothing to either be sexy or repulsive from.
trolololol@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2d
There's a big difference from fresh sweat and 7 days old sweat.
julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2d
She likes it when you've been working hard to make her garden nicer... Have you considered it's not the smell doing the work here?
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2d
Fresh sweat really is full of pheromones and can smell really sexy.
Its when that sweat gets stale you start to get the classic rancid BO smell.
LordMayor@piefed.social · 17 pts · 2d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_pheromones
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Maybe not pheromones, but fresh sweat does have an odor, and it's a sexy one. It quits being sexy once it gets rancid, though. Of course, there are some people who get turned on by bad body odor, but that's rare.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
It's not a problem to smell like a man.
It is a problem to smell like the excrement of the microbiome that lives ON a man.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 0 pts · 1d
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1d
What there are are smells some people like.
TAG@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
I suspect that it works because she is your wife. BO works a lot better on your 101st date than it does on your 1st date. It is not about your armpits having an alluring scent, but the fact that the scent reminds your wife of times she got you all sweaty and stinky. It calls back to driving home after a long hike or snuggling with you on a cold winter day. It is a scent that she is used to smelling when she is looking at someone she loves.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 20h
Smell does play an important role in memory production and recall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_memory
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/connections-between-smell-memory-and-health
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Fresh sweat is sexy, but sweat goes from sexy to funky pretty damn quick. This is because the bad odor isn't caused by the sweat itself but by bacteria in your sweat.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Then why the fuck does my sweat smell like gun powder and motor oil? Thats not sexy that's my body practically screaming about how I want to make the old union militias and IRA look like a bunch of amateurs.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
It could be your diet or it could be genetics. Or both. I had a roommate like that. As soon as it got hot, he started stinking. He would take a shower, but as soon as he started sweating again, he stank. I think in his case it was diet, because he ate lots of meat and no vegetables.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1d
Yeah but it's not like I start sweating all that bad, so I don't think it's the meat sweats. Probably balanced out by the fact that my diet is actually weirdly balanced. But yeah it's probably genetics, doesn't explain why it smells like gunpowder and motor oil though.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Spicy food?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Nah not really, I don't eat Thai food enough for that and my normal eating habits are about as spicy as a rural englishmans lunch.
Malica@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d
Your smell. When she's bonded to you and loves you. If it's some random dude you're on a first date with? Ew.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
Could be, but it's more likely that the sweat is still fresh and hasn't turned into BO yet. Sweat doesn't get stinky until you let it sit for a bit.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
She's already attracted you you and your odor.
raspirate@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 2d
I mean, it makes sense. The manosphere is above all else, a grift. If someone who's listening to the podcasts and buying the online courses actually gets a girlfriend and realizes how stupid it all is, they're not going to keep giving the grifters money. The point is to keep them single, angry, and blaming women.
Undearius@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 2d
No no, this is actually a good idea. It makes it even more obvious who to avoid.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
It's a very immediate filter. However, I'll probably have to exist around them, so I'm not in favor.
Unless they develop a stink suit with a deployable stink hose for suitors.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Evolution in action!
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 2d
Internet was supposed to make scientific knowledge more accessible but instead we have dumb shit like this spreading.
🤦♂️
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 2d
It's tide pods all the way down.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2d
Let me guess, its called stinkmaxxxing, isn't it?
alt_xa_23@midwest.social · 10 pts · 2d
From a post I saw on bluesky, it's 'pheromonemaxxing'
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 7 pts · 1d
Fun fact: there is only one known actual human pheromone, or what people think pheromones are (but they aren't) and it's from breast feeding.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041007081222.htm
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
muskmaxxing, I presume. (Hope)
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
Because you smell like Elon Musk?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 2d
Oof. That's a terrible typo to make.
Retched is what you did before puking, and wretched means "miserable" or "dismal".
nodiratime@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
Well, after vabbing it was only a question of time.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2d
wtf, that doesn’t deserve a wiki entry. 😩 That’s, like, urban dictionary material.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2d
If any part of a woman other than her vagina smelled like vagina,.. no thanks.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
Eww, fucking morons.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
Eww, fucking morons.
miked@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
WTF?
That is a new one for me. Only problem is some females don't realize how bad their secretions smell.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 12 pts · 1d
How much longer until the manosphere drops pursuing women and just goes full homosexual? They seem to like other men more already. They should just come out of the closet already.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d
That certainly seems to be case with pick-up artists. They don't seem to like women very much. The women are only there to impress...who? Other men.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
Eww no. Keep them away.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
the Musk 4 Musk community wants to know your location 🐽
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
As an ai data center, I approve this message.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 1d
This is comical. You can see all the worst people isolate and kill themselves off in real time.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1d
I mean over cleaning is kinda bad especially with hair but uh. if you stink its beyond time to bathe.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1d
Have you tried showering in Axe Body Spray and making yourself and everyone around you sick from the scent, you fucking numpty?
Frankly, I'd rather smell unwashed incel.
Edit: fuck your downvotes and you if you think pouring artificial scents on yourself and ruining the day of someone that's allergic to that shit is better than some BO.
Goddamn it pisses me off when I have to leave an event because someone's given me a splitting headache and watering eyes because they've so thoroughly screwed up their olfactory sense to think that they aren't a walking war crime after putting half an ounce of that trash on themselves.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d
Best I can do is unshowered comic-con attendee slathered in Axe.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
Idk, it's 50/50 on how bad it is. I sometimes can't smell sweaty people at all, but I'm also allergic and HATE Axe.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1d
I've had to leave places because so there smelled like rancid asshole so I guess we cancel each other out.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d
I’m good being a beta male, thanks.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
and smell like a sour smell homeless person. it might work with homeless people though, becareful what you ask for.