u/PassengerCultural421

This “skill issue” argument is bogus, and just a gaslight to maintain the “women are wonderful” status quo and also maintain the just world fallacy status quo, where morality is associated with how much women like a man.

The argument assumes that if a man struggles with dating, sex, or relationships, then he must automatically be socially incompetent, lazy, creepy, immature, or personally flawed.

It gets treated like some universal law of nature instead of a heavily oversimplified opinion.

People reduce an extremely complicated social dynamic into a single explanation because it feels emotionally satisfying and easy to repeat.

In reality, attraction is influenced by far more than just “game” or confidence.

Looks, height, income, status, social circles, timing, geography, culture, mental health, luck, and dating app algorithms all heavily affect outcomes.

Two men can behave almost identically and still experience completely different romantic success because human attraction is not a fair or objective system.

Again the “women are wonderful” effect plays a major role in this mindset.

Society often assumes women’s romantic choices are inherently wise, fair, moral, and deeply meaningful.

So if women reject a man, people immediately assume the rejection itself proves something bad about his character instead of considering outside factors or simple incompatibility.

The just world fallacy also strengthens this belief.

People desperately want to believe the world is fair, so they convince themselves that successful men “earned” love through virtue while unsuccessful men somehow deserve loneliness through personal failure.

This creates a comforting illusion that life rewards good qualities fairly, even though reality is far messier and often influenced by preferences, and trends.

This is why dating success is often incorrectly treated as a measurement of moral worth.

A man who easily attracts women is assumed to be confident, valuable, socially intelligent, and respectable.

Meanwhile a struggling man is often viewed as defective before anyone even understands his situation. Even though the worst misogynistic men in the world are still successful with women.

Ironically, society already admits attraction can be shallow and selective in every other context.

People openly acknowledge that appearance, status, and popularity matter in dating.

But the moment men discuss how those factors affect them negatively, the conversation suddenly becomes moralized into “just improve yourself” lectures.

None of this means self-improvement is useless or that social skills do not matter at all.

It simply means dating outcomes are not a perfect meritocracy, and pretending they are only creates dishonest conversations about men, relationships, and human attraction.

Women or feminists will say that men are statistically more violent, every woman has a SA story, women are afraid to walk alone at night, and women would rather be alone in the woods with a bear. Did I get everything right here?

But yet despite this super fear women claim to have of men. There is a still a strong expectation among women, for men to still approach, pursue, and make the first move though. If men are so dangerous, then why do you still want men approaching women? 🤔.

I have made a lot of posts suggesting that maybe men should simply stop approaching women altogether if women genuinely see unknown men as threats. Ironically, the strongest pushback against that idea almost always comes from women and feminists themselves.

They will often respond by saying men who refuse to approach are just incels, socially awkward, bitter, or autistic.

My favorite is when they say all men have to do is not be creepy, and they will be fine. This is funny, because these are usually the same people saying that women can't tell differences between good men and bad men. So they must be cautious, and assume all men are potential threats. In order to be safe. But somehow men are told "just don't be creepy" towards women who already see them as threats to begin with. Make it make sense. Men pointing out this cognitive dissonance, get them labeled autistic or incels in society.

It just seems like women just want to have their cake and eat it too, when it comes to their fear of men, and romantic relationships with men.

Like Jasmine is addicted to WHAT?

It's always shocking to me. Because these people usually act so different online.

On the surface Aba get hawk turah by a baddie isn't a bad thing. But it's the hypocrisy though. Calling Destiny a degenerate for sleeping with these BDP women. When he got sucked up by the BDP queen.

It's like Destiny said. He is open about all of his gooner stuff. While everyone else have to pretend like they are not a gooner or degenerate.

So Destiny just exposes the Eyes Wide Shut masks people wear everyday. This is probably the true reason why FD Signifier is afraid of the Destiny orbit. 🤣🤣

This is a common Christian talking point. Not alm Christians agree with this talking point. But this talking point is still popular among Christians though.

But if Aliens were confirmed to exist. That would mean that multiple different alien races couldcexist too. That could be millions, billions, or even trillions of different races in the universe.

Either way, what are the chances that only two races (humans, and the "angels") exist in the universe? Not even 5 or 10. Heck even just one (us) is still more believable Lol. So how would a Christian rationalize putting numerous different species in a demon category?

I understand how certain religions with multiple Gods, like Hindiism can rationalize Aliens as supernatural creatures in their religion. Because their Gods already come in so much variety.

But I don't understand how some Christians loop Aliens into small Falling Angels category though. Again ate some Christians not aware how big the universe is?

1: No weight classes in Pro Wrestling.

2: One Wrestler fighting multiple opponents.

3: Wrestlers be able to fight like 40 times in a year.

Women literally admit they avoid being too friendly to men because too many guys mistake basic kindness for flirting. That alone proves how unreliable these so called “signs” are. If a smile, compliment, or casual conversation can be misunderstood that easily, then vague hints obviously suck as communication.

That’s why I laugh when people act like men should magically decode “signals.” Half the “signals” women talk about are the exact same behaviors they use with friends, coworkers, and strangers. Then when a guy misreads it, suddenly he’s dumb, autistic, or creepy for not being psychic.

If women themselves acknowledge that normal friendliness gets interpreted romantically, then they’re indirectly admitting their communication is ambiguous. You can’t say “read the signs” while also saying “I can’t even be nice without men thinking I’m interested.” Those two ideas clash hard.

Clear communication solves this instantly. People acting like directness ruins romance is nonsense. Mixed signals create more awkwardness, rejection, and confusion than honesty ever will.

I ask this question because I saw Taskmaster copy a Chi attack from a master once. I always assume this power would be useless, if your opponents is stronger than you. For example, im still get destroyed by Mike Tyson, even if I had this power since birth and trained a lot too.

But if Taskmaster can do that. Can also copy Bullseye and abilities too? Those abilities are almost superpowers. Making muscle mimicry a insane talent for normal humans to achieve.

I'm making this martial art story. Where the fighters compete in combat sports, that are more dangerous than MMA, and require more skill.

But I have run into a few world-building issues though. Im struggling with explaining why the average fighter can't be on this level. What is stopping athletes from competing at this level? If they are already in the 0.1 percent of elite athletes in the world. Then how is it possible for other athletes (I.E. my fighters) to be above them?

So I thought this issue would be solved, if I just made my fighters talent more genetic based, than training based. But then again It feels like I'm just creating another type of superhuman. What kind of takes way from the martial arts aspect of the story.

Edit: For more context here. My fighters have 2x stats. Meaning they are 2 times more stronger, durable, and faster then the best athletes in the world. And they also photographic reflexes allowing them to learn skill sets in a very short amount of time.

I'm making this martial art story. Where the fighters compete in combat sports, that are more dangerous than MMA, and require more skill.

But I have run into a few world-building issues though. Im struggling with explaining why the average fighter can't be on this level. What is stopping athletes from competing at this level? If they are already in the 0.1 percent of elite athletes in the world. Then how is it possible for other athletes (I.E. my fighters) to be above them?

So I thought this issue would be solved, if I just made my fighters talent more genetic based, than training based. But then again It feels like I'm just creating another type of superhuman. What kind of takes way from the martial arts aspect of the story.

For example.

Is it more likely for a average woman to beat an average man in Boxing match, compared to the average man taking on prime Mike Tyson in a Boxing match?

I use to think kitchen sink settings were related to the amount of power systems in a settings. But then I realized that kitchen sink settings are also about how many genres can exist in a setting too.

For example, a setting with only two power systems isn't necessarily a kitchen sink world. That's pretty much the TOARU universe, with just Espers and Magic. Or any setting with a magic vs tech dichotomy. But a world like My Hero Academia is a kitchen sink though. Just due to how flexible Quirks are, to the point anything can be a Quirk (I.E. Manga head and a freaking talking Washing machine).

So even if you have one power system, your setting can still be a kitchen sink. Because again your one power system can be extremely broad, and there isn't enough limitations for what your characters can't do. It's like every character have their own power system. Like a individual power system, where everyone follow different rules, and can't learn each other abilities.

This is where different genres come in. When you think about it, each superpower come with it's own genre, and also world-building implications too.

Some examples here.

If all the powers come from the same source. Mutations, Quantum Mechanics, or whatever.

And you still end up with characters with different abilities.

1: A character that has the ability to see ghosts. That's huge. Because the audience knows that superhumans aren't the only supernatural phenomena that exist in this world.

2: A character that has the ability to control technology, automatically turns this superhero setting into a SCI-FI setting. World-building wise, this character can improved the world via their inventions. Meaning advanced technology also exist in this superhero setting too.

3: A character that has the ability to open portals tio different universes. Again similar to number one. Not only do superhumans exist in this world. The multiverse also exist too, just via one character abilities.

4: A character that has photographic reflexes. That's just basically any Action movie or martial arts setting. Especially if there are Captain America type of characters who just have abilities that make them only slightly stronger/faster/tougher than the best athletes in the world.

So one broad power system has the potential to make a setting far more bigger than a setting that just has four niche power systems.

Quirks or the X-Gene (if the X-Men existed in it's own universe outside Marvel lore) are so unconstrained that they accidentally simulate dozens of genres simultaneously:

body horror cosmic horror comedy sci-fi fantasy espionage martial arts slice of life kaiju fiction

In conclusion: Again kitchen sink settings have nothing to do with the amount of power sources in the setting. Because 1 source can still be more bigger than 10 sources.

Especially powers that can be creepy or come with some huge world-building implications.

Like a tier list based on the 3 most common NHI possibilities. For me. AI I would be on that list. But I'm not sure about the other two though.

I like the number 3. Because it's a good middle ground between "only one theory is possible" and "10 different theories are possible at once".

Something like the TOARU universe, with the whole science side vs magic side. It would be great if there are more than 2 power systems in those Anime settings too.

So the title have two questions.

Flims like John Wick, Jason Bourne, The Expendables, Reacher, etc. I ask this question because I recently watch the new Punisher special.

Speaking of The Punisher. My friend once said that action movies are just dishonest superhero movies, due to how ridiculous the character feats are. There is some truth to what my friend said. But then I also told him if he thinks movies about Vampires and Wizards, are superhero movies too. He couldn't answer that question.

So this brings me back to my title question. I can see arguments, where you can say that action flims are magic systems. You have characters who can mastered skillsets in a short amount of time (think of how fast characters learn Karate in Cobra Kai, or just Batman magic). Any story about Marines, Navy Seals, or any special force, usually have characters who are trained to be high-level at using every single firearm in history.

And also don't forget about the generic superhuman strength/durability/speed/healing these characters usually randomly have. Whenever they survive high falls, or bullets. Or when they can beat 10 Ninjas, IP Man style. So there is definitely a pattern action characters tend to follow. You can even call this the rules of the system (eh eh).

I mean superpowers aren't considered magic systems, because characters have abilities that have nothing to do with the abilities of other characters. A superpower user usually can't learn another power from another superpower user. It's like all the superpower users have their own magic system. My point here is that, the opposite is true with action characters. In these action stories all the Ninjas, secret Agents, Marines, Mercenaries, or Hitmen are still learning the same skillsets at the end of the day. The main character still has the same training their peers got. That's basically a pattern you can see in any magic system.

Ok, this is the part, where viewing action flims as a magic system could be a bad idea though. The problem here isn't necessarily that the magic system is unrealistic or dumb. The problem here if you had a magic system based on action movies, you would run into a few world-building issues.

What makes your character so special, if they are just using normal human capabilities at the end of the day? That's the funny and silly part of my post too. How do you even make a magic system based on normal stuff, humans can already do? But then again, it also depends on how you define a magic system too. Does a magic system automatically means beyond human? I will let you guys decide that in the replies.

Again, what makes your characters so special? Sure psychic abilities or witchcraft can be taught in some settings. But there are usually a barrier stopping most people from getting supernatural abilities in most settings though.

But when it comes to martial arts, or combat. What is that barrier? Anybody can learn combat, sure they won't be pro-level. But then again what if the combat based magic system still defies biology and the laws of physics? For example, a 125 and 5'3 dude taking out a 350 and 7'1 dude via his training, especially when both are trained.l too. If a woman can be a greater Boxer than Floyd Mayweather or Mike Tyson. What is stopping more women from attaining this level? Why aren't there more Bruce Lee's? Why can't the military just trained the average soldier to be this high-level in combat? Again the world-building would be the biggest issues for a magic system like this, unless it's not set in a modern world.

Obligatory Worm comment here. Worm has an interesting way of answering this title question. For example, instead of having some random muggle with vague intelligence, that allows them to make Iron-Man level tech. Worm turns this character intelligence into a superpower. The only person who can understand how the technology works, is the character themselves. This is called the Tinker category in Worm. Marvel and DC rarely do this. The closet thing to this in Marvel are characters with pseudo-superhuman abilities like Daredevil or Bullseye.

So, Worm avoids the “why can’t everyone do this?” issue by making extreme competence itself supernatural.

In my opinion the difference between superhero movies and action movies. Are the same differences you would see between Anime and Pro Wrestling. That's the best way I can describe the differences lol.

In conclusion: Again would you consider action flims it's own set of magic systems. I kind of made arguments for both sides in this post (I.E. the pros and the cons).

We all know that prime Mike Tyson would destroy prime Floyd Mayweather in a fight?

But what if both are given 2x strength, 2x durability, 2x reaction time, 2x agility, 2x stamina, 2x healing, and Taskmaster muscle mimicry abilities.

Does Floyd do better or worse in this scenario?

So basically my question here is. Is Floyd better off in a regular fight or better off in this superhuman fight?

I always hear stories about remote viewing, clairvoyant, telepathy, or telekinesis.

My biggest question here.

Are all these abilities separate or just one very specific ability?

I don't know what is. But both supervillians and even superheroes are usually never afraid or get spooked.

I remember watching this Young Justice episode, where Deathstroke is just casually there to take out MS. Martian, like it's usual business. He doesn't care about the fact he is going after an Alien (a super Alien at that too). Which I find really funny.

Whether it's Damian fighting demons, or The Punisher fighting Ninjas. Again most characters seem like they are rarely afraid with the wild situations they are dealing with. So this lack of fear translates to villains too.

So that brings back to my title question. With so much twisted villains, like Carnage, The Joker, Purple Man, Pigman, etc. How do the "less bad" villains like Deathstroke, Kingpin, Deadshot, US Agent, etc feel about disturbing villain.

I ask this question. Because it just seems like a villain who is only a Bounty Hunter, would have a nonchalant reaction to a villain who sacrifices people to demons (similar to how nonchalant characters are with threats). Especially when there are so many villain groups with members from various backgrounds, ideologies, and beliefs.