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by bruce511 1243 days ago
I feel like (as an old person) trying to tell youngsters how to behave at college, seems, well likely to fall in deaf ears.

But I'm not sure your point holds water. If women want to date, they can. If they don't want to then they don't have to. These other students hold no power, assign no grades, and so on.

Perhaps the root issue is the demoralization of some not being offered dates or extra tutoring? But it's hard to see how that might be corrected.

I confess I don't see the actual harm here - those that want to learn can learn, those that want to date can date. I suppose those that want to date, but aren't getting any offers....?

Still, as an old man, I'm not sure I'm qualified to weigh in - but to me it sounds like kids being kids.
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wilsonnb3 1243 days ago
> These other students hold no power

A key point is that these students do have power because they already know the coursework. That is the whole reason that they chose these specific classes.

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xupybd 1243 days ago
That's a pretty weak hand really. It's not like they're in competition with the other students. They're also offering to help pass on that knowledge in exchange for attention from women. That's not a power move.
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britch 1243 days ago
The post describes students "teaching" labs as though they are TA's.

How is that not an attempt to take a position of power?

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xupybd 1243 days ago
That's kind of a hall monitor position of power. Yeah, you appear to be in power but the first person to get annoyed with you is still going to stuff you in a locker. It shows these guys don't know what they're doing. You don't impress girls by showing off how much of a nerd you are. Been there tried that. It doesn't work.
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britch 1242 days ago
Oh I totally agree haha, what the seniors are doing is a bit sad.

I hope they can figure out a better way of meeting someone

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Tozen 1241 days ago
That's part of the problem. The other side has no viable suggestions for such young men, outside of them being already blessed with good looks, is tall, very charismatic, well built, popular, and/or wealthy. So, be the top 20% they are already clearly not, or just passively sit around doing nothing and hope to get randomly lucky.
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