Elephant Town: Just the flats!

Yeah, I really get the feeling that a LOT of our stereotypes of others are really what we fear are the stereotypes of US.

Theadora

Wow. I can't tell whether to feel sad or slap some sense into them. I've always heard how girls & women can be vicious to each other, but this somehow seems worse. It feels like they can't encourage each other out of fear of seeing one of their group be happy in their own skin, because self-loathing is safer. But they don't want to do it alone.

Beth A. Kaplan

You just explained so well the overall feeling I had when I viewed these pages this morning. Like this whole scheme become their reality and in the end, they don't want to be helped. They fuel their negative emotions and remain in groups of people who will make sure they mutually and individually do not succeed. So so sad... You did a great job at expressing it in your drawing.

... these are the Days of Our Lives ...

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Like crabs in a bucket.

C.H.

Maintaining an emotional state is spot-on. It's a weird cesspool; "misery loves company" is what comes to mind. These are a bunch of guys with nothing left to lose. There's a lot of talk of suicide, and attempts to "science" women to crack the code of why they can't find love. What's really sad is that they pick apart their own looks, but I've dipped into the threads where they share photos of themselves, and 90% of them are physically good-looking guys! They just look sad and soulless - no doubt the reason people avoid them at first glance - and there's no "looksmaxxing" or plastic surgery that can fix that. It's brutal to watch them tear themselves apart, but most of them are dead-set on staying in that mindset. I think a lot of them don't *want* a way out. (And thanks for knowing I wouldn't trope a group, without research. <3 )

Danielle Corsetto

It's been fascinating and I can't help feeling a little indulgent whenever I dip in there... but it makes a noticeable change on my mood. After a few hours of it I'll fall into a nihilistic, self-pitying attitude that I have to climb out of over the course of a few hours. Like how you can't help but start to speak in someone else's accent if you're around them for long time.

Danielle Corsetto

Oooh! I remember when you did your research! Can't wait to see how this develops!

Entropy345

Posting on such groups seems to me like a way to maintain his emotionnal state. Or maybe seek approval of other man who he consider more successful than him? In any case, this is insaaaaane. As I was reading my first reaction was : "That CAN'T be true... Bue Danielle would never throw any community under the bus like that, without research..."

Doing the research for this must have been very hard, sheesh

Boum

This is painful...I felt this way until I was about 15, then I learned that women were people, the same as I was, and were struggling to find themselves, the same as I was. That pulled me out of this particular sea of pain.

Christian Brown

Urgh, even Paul doesn't deserve this.

Dean Reilly

Wow... This is quite insane indeed. You probably had great time reading all these sh*ts. It's depressing.

Some truly disturbed people out there.

Douglas Appelt