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Cake day: February 28th, 2024

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  • I think it’s been conflated with simply “having self-esteem”. So many guys (and a few women), are just so meek and weird about flirting or even just having casual conversations with the opposite sex. Like they see themselves as a social burden, but they just have to approach and give weird compliments anyway.

    Like, you’ve seen sorta fugly people with attractive partners, right? Or two not-so attractive people dating? Someone had to make a move, and those people had self-esteem / confidence.

    Confidence isn’t just reserved for the physically attractive. It’s ok to value other aspects of yourself and derive your self-worth from that.

    If you’re bothering people who turned you down already, or you’re too unaware to notice, then that’s a different problem altogether. I’ve seen plenty of guys with zero confidence linger in a convo they thought was going somewhere.





  • I watched this again recently after finally reading the short-story it’s based on. Even with the author writing the screenplay, it doesn’t stand up to the original. It’s a smaller story, but that brings the focus on these great characters, especially Molly (aka Jane from the movie). The movie really doesn’t do her character justice. Her climactic fight scene at the end really stands out.

    I’d encourage anybody to track down William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” or “Burning Chrome” (the collection of stories Johnny Mnemonic comes from) if you haven’t read them already.