Giftedness easily becomes a social disability if your environment isn’t good for it. The education system isn’t ready to handle you constantly being ahead of the class? Get ready to sleep in school as the best years to take advantage of it pass by. Your topics of interest are too complex for everyone else around? Have fun enjoying your friendships less than everyone else. You don’t mask your intelligence? Here, have 10 lottery tickets to get bullied, no, you can’t return them. Congratulations, you graduated from college. Do you have the money for a masters degree? Oops, guess you studied for nothing. Got into debt and got a masters, but the job market isn’t booming? Do you have rich parents, or rich friends? Aw shucks, guess you couldn’t network your way into the type of job you would have liked.

Being intelligent helps, if you’re patient, hard-working, and have the means to look out for the less conventional options, but not so much as one would instinctively think.

Andrew Tate has convinced a ton of teenage boys to think the same, apparently. Kinda ironic.

Turns out the dude reported OP’s wife because she rejected his sexual advances at a party. Honestly, it would be cool to be at the turning point of history where assholes like him are the ones who get put in jail, rather than women who happen to have weird artificial porn. Sounds like she has a decent shot.

Thanks a lot for the effort put in your message. It’s going to take me a while to process it all.

I wonder what goes on the minds of the abusers.

One bad day you decide you’re going to commit the rest of your life to God, and reach a compromise to avoid sex forever. Another day, much, much later, you begin having urges, and they get so strong that the idea of abusing a child passes through your mind. If your initial intention of dedicating the rest of your life to God has led you to this point, wouldn’t it be just truer to your initial vocation to renounce your vows so that you can have sex with consenting adults, rather than harming a child?

Then again, the Catholic Church treats abusers better than it treats resigned priests.

The kind of guy who would be satisfied with AI is not someone a woman with the smallest shred of respect would want to be with.

This is so goddamn cruel. Are people who are simply just so lonely they need to express their feelings to an AI so undeserving of love that it would feel humiliating to get close to them? I don’t think about women that way.