“Ah, That’s Why They’re Single”: 35 Times People’s Single Status Made Absolute Sense
Romance isn't for everyone. It requires certain qualities that some of us simply do not possess. Not to mention, there are those who do not want a relationship at all.
In the US, for example, about three in ten adults (31%) report being singleᅳthat is, not married, living with a partner, or in any other form of commitment. However, it's worth pointing out that this percentage varies significantly across demographic groups, with 41% among 18- to 29-year-olds compared to 23% of 30- to 49-year-olds.
Interested in these dynamics, Reddit user TakinShots made a post on the platform, asking everyone to share the stupidest thing they've witnessed a person say or do that made them instantly understand why they're single. Here are the responses they have received.
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I worked with a single guy that wanted to find an Aussie woman to marry because American women ‘gave too much lip’. I had to break it to him that an Aussie woman would kick his butt viciously and leave him crippled for even thinking like that.
“All women want is money” because I asked what he did for work. He was unemployed. Sir, we are both almost 30. We aren’t kids anymore, how are you able to make such a statement when you don’t even have a job? I don’t want your money, I want to date a grown man who isn’t looking to turn his girlfriend into his mother so he doesn’t have to do anything all day.
I can see where they're both coming from. But if he's unemployed, he should be focusing on getting his s**t together and using his savings for surviving, before pursuing a relationship, or dating. In fact, someone unemployed I would be very suspicious how he's earning money to pay for a date. Unless she's paying.
We managed to get in touch with TakinShots, and the Redditor told Bored Panda that the idea for the post "came about when a friend told our friend group that guys and girls can't be friends. At that point, I was curious about what other silly things people have heard being said to them."
"I would say most of the answers are based around specific things being said on actual dates," the author of the post added.
"A lot of the answers involve people saying something sexist or doing something really awkward on a date. There's a wide variety of responses that are all entertaining to read, but some, like the fake bomb story, are really scary too!"
Maybe not the dumbest thing he's said but it's the most consistent.
My brother, literally anytime a woman is mad or even just annoyed with him: "Aww did your period just start?"
I'm convinced my brother will die a virgin. It's better for humanity that way. My husband worked with someone who knows my brother and she told him that my brother's attitude and behavior towards her and her friends is the reason she's a lesbian.
Hell yeah it will. I can't wait to have the angry black lady in charge. Let's do this thing and FIX a country that's been led by stupid white men for too long.
Load More Replies...Yeah i get it may have been a joke, but it's an outdated one. We're lesbians because we like women, not because of shîtty men. It makes it seems like our sexûality is a choice, and it may give some men the impression that they can "change us" if they're nice enough.
Load More Replies...No, my period didn’t start (I’m post-menopausal), but if you’re so eager to see blood, I can make that happen. With your nose jumping in front of my fist.
Even if it did, my period only lasts a few days. Your stupidity lasts forever.
Men who ask "Aww did your period just start?" will rarely find themselves in a situation where the answer is relevant to them.
Nah, there’s always someone out there who hates themselves enough that that works for them.
Can confirm, for every sad little incel, there is at least one person with even lower self esteem who's desperate enough for affection to subject themselves to that kind of treatment. Don't make my mistakes.
Load More Replies...I'm lesbian because of my factory wiring, but some men do make me particularly glad I was born so.
I’m loving how we can only bash democrats. As if they’re the only ones who never screw up. Grow up and realize that other people have different opinions than you, and stop downvoting people unless it’s a spam comment or something that’s actually hateful.
My male sibling is an incel. It's pathetic to watch him grow old, always believing he's "treated unfairly" because he sees women as things and not people.
Even as a stupid teenager, I would never have said that. Now,as a stupid adult, I wouldn't even think it.
That's a shallow thing to say about lesbians. Lesbians don't choose to partner with women because of male dickheads. There was never any attraction to men at all. Maybe a bi woman would use that reason, but not a lesbian.
It's extra funny if one knows that when the period starts, all female hormone levels drop to the lowest point. So menstruation is the time when hormone levels of men and women are the most similar they can get!
This is actually considered sexual harassment. A guy said this to me in front of a teacher once and he got sent to the dean for sexual harassment
Why is this the go to for men when we show any emotion? It couldn't possibly be that we had a bad day or we are tired, got bad news, overworked or stupid men who make stupid comments pissed us off. But no, it has to be our periods. Tool bags!
I come to Bored Panda for entertainment. Tired of all the political commentary. That’s why I left IG.
"Quite the contrary, I can feel my entire reproductive system drying up at the sound of your voice."
After I had been on hormones for a couple of months, I told my SO that the 2 weeks a month that I'm on testosterone I want to fight, the other 2 weeks when the estrogen takes over, I want to cry. I don't tell him when I start the testosterone, so he is never quite sure of my potential reaction to anything.
My parents may not be the most progressive folks, but they definitely did something right when it came to raising my brothers. .....altho probably having 3 older sisters helped a lil bit xD
Seems 18-25 year old lads talking about Andrew Tate and wondering why girls can't stand them.
This makes sense. Samantha Joel, who is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Utah, focuses her research on how people make decisions about their romantic relationships.
She scheduled a talk in October 2019 at the University of Waterloo in Canada with the straightforward title: "Can we help people pick better romantic partners?"
To answer that question, she teamed up with 85 of the world's most renowned scientists, combining data from 43 studies, mining hundreds of variables collected from more than 10,000, and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning models. And the answer was no.
The number one—and most surprising—lesson in the data, Joel said, is how unpredictable relationships seem to be. She and her coauthors found that the demographics, preferences, and values of two people had surprisingly little power in predicting whether those two people were happy in a romantic relationship.
Friend dated a guy who took her cat to the shelter as a stray. The cat was chipped and they called her to pick it up. She couldn't figure out how the cat got out and the boyfriend claimed he didn't know.
It happened a second time, and she had the cameras checked for the person dropping the cat off. She called him on it and he denied it.
She broke up with him, but I always joke that she drove him to the shelter instead.
I occasionally get migraines, and one of my coworkers asked me how my husband feels about me having migraines. Which I thought was a weird question but I replied along the lines of "he feels bad that he can't do anything to help me when I have one."
Coworker then says, "No, I mean, because like I couldn't deal being with a woman that had an illness or something like that, I'm too high energy for that, I wouldn't be able to be with her."
I said, so you think that my husband would want to leave me because I get migraines? He said yeah. I said, so if you were married and your wife got sick with something like cancer or some other disease, you'd leave her? He said yeah I didn't sign up for all of that.
I politely told him to never get married with that attitude, people can't help that they're sick. Damn.
I dumped a guy who wouldn't support me when I was sick. It's when my chronic pancreatitis started and I was in the hospital about every 6 weeks. He would just say "call me when you get out". When he wanted to eat out and I would tell him I had been throwing up all day and didn't feel like eating at all, he would answer back "you don't have to eat anything. Just sit there and keep me company". That was the last time I talked to him.
"It's for me okay to beat woman, I mean sometimes they really deserve it" I was like RUN. RUN as fast as you can to myself hahah.
TakinShots believes that society's perception of being single depends largely on who you ask. "I would say most people are fine with being single, and a lot of people don't really care. Perhaps in certain social situations, the question of whether someone has a partner may come up, and there might be a certain 'expectation' that a person with X job or Y personality should have a partner. At that point, there might be some surprise. As for judging others who are single, it can happen, but this is a minority population; it's very immature and reeks of insecurity."
"I only want to sleep with under 21s because I want to feel firm flesh"
Said by a 30 year old involuntary celibate to a room full of 30 year old women.
Guess he'll be feeling that "firm flesh" with his own hand.
"Women don't know what they want. That's why they need a confident man to tell them what they want."
Interesting. Seems to me like it takes an adverage of 2 weeks for women to deside they don't want you.
Oh, we may not know exactly what we want, but we are very sure of what we don't want, sir, and that would be YOU.
When I hear men, usually straight and Caucasian (but not always) espousing the red pill nonsense, it makes me cringe.
I wish they could understand that they are being told what they want to hear, where they are the victims of some grand conspiracy… when really what they’re experiencing is not being handed the world like they were promised.
I have / had a friend that went hardcore right wing / Alex Jones during the pandemic and never returned. We went out drinking a couple times and it just became too awkward for us to maintain a friendship. He was also dating a girlfriend of mine, who dumped him slightly before he went fully insane, and likely contributed to him falling into the void.
The red pill guys just don’t understand the irony of their prerogative: I.e they are mad that they are being forced into a lifestyle and culture they don’t agree with and painted as “the bad guys”, when literally every single one of their policy objectives seeks to subjugate every racial, gender and sexual minority lol.
They suddenly think that vaccines are a communist conspiracy, and political correctness is brainwashing, while simultaneously legislating what women and trans people can do with their own bodies, and policing what literature and education is acceptable. They want freedom of speech while also being terrified of people learning anything that contradicts their version of reality.
In short, the red pill guys who identify as incels should maybe realize that maybe they’re single because their political and philosophical stance fundamentally sees women as beneath them; objects owed to them; incubators; stupid; vapid; weak; etc.
You can’t complain about being single and nobody wanting to f**k you when you are supporting convicted r*pists and conmen for public office and in media..
"I wanna be in charge of everything because I deserve to be!" "Dude, you are a middle-aged minimum-wage worker with a drinking problem who thinks female genitals are magic mystery boxes you can buy with a cheap dinner." "Help, help, I'm being repressed!"
Geoff MacDonald, a psychologist at the University of Toronto whose lab studies the well-being of single people, agrees.
"There seems to be evidence that around the world people are staying single longer and sometimes staying single permanently," he said.
MacDonald's research found that those who are most unhappy about being single and who have the lowest overall satisfaction with their lives are people who crave connection. He describes them as "anxiously attached" individuals. And those who are happiest with being single tend to be more independent people who are comfortable being alone.
"There's actually not a lot of difference between the kinds of people who are happy single, and the kinds of people who are happy in relationships," the psychologist explained.
“I want a wife who is powerful and accomplished and has money but who will defer to me as the head of the household in accordance to Gods Will.”
I s**t you not.
A friend of a friend who used to hang out with my roommates. Bigger guy, didn't really take care of himself, didn't do anything except get high and play GTA V. "Women these days won't date anyone unless they make six figures." Yeah dude, that's definitely the problem for you. Has nothing to do with the lack of hygiene.
I'll never understand people that believe all you need to do is to be rich to get all the girls. The only girls you're going to "get" if all you're doing is flaunting your money are people that only want your money. People that are already thinking of alimony before marriage. And most importantly, an unhappy relationship where she'll cheat on you anytime she wants
"I don't need to shower daily, my natural musk attracts the ladies." Spoiler: it doesn't.
I’ve talked about this before, but musk is not attractive. It’s nasty. Keep yourself clean, boys.
Honestly, just any person seething with hatred for the opposite sex. How on earth do you expect to date someone you see as worthless? This goes for both "women shouldn't speak, only cook, clean and birth my offspring" men and "all men are sexist pigs that don't deserve any respect" women.
My dads opinion on women that I had to deal with growing up - ‘ men only like you if you’re thin, a good woman should always be under a size 8 (au)’ ‘wives should always wear bikinis and look good in them’ and more 😂
A guy at work got ghosted by his girlfriend. She completely cut him off. I felt bad for him until I spent more time around him. He started saying things like “hey, you’re a sandwich maker and dishwasher rolled into one.” Another time he said “I bet you can’t wait to go be someone’s wife so you can take care of the kids.” That girl ran for the hills and I’m proud of her.
Coworker had a short relationship and breakup and was obviously depressed about it, so I engaged and asked about it.
His comment was "I just don't understand how to make women feel like I believe that their opinion matters, when they always have such stupid life views".
I was hoping it was just a weird way of saying he's struggling to treat women equally so I asked him to talk about it a bit. Didn't misunderstand-- to him, mens' views are obviously superior and it's all about simply pretending that women matter, and he was struggling hard to do that.
Oh my god, okay. There was a LOT that got said over 2 dinner dates and an afternoon walk, but the real tipping point was this:
At an hour-ish dinner, he arrived late, demonstrated how to use Find My for your AirPods for 10 minutes, talked about *and demonstrated* how bright his bike light is for 15 minutes, embarrassed the waitress with extended conversation, and *mansplained my own highly-specific job to me* for another 10.
When something he said presented this side topic, I wrestled away control for 5 minutes to tell him about the DB Cooper air hijacking. He immediately changed the subject as soon as I was done.
As he walked me home, he said:
“Empathy is all about considering what the other people around you want. When you wasted time at dinner telling that airplane story, you clearly didn’t think about whether or not I would find it interesting, and I had stuff I wanted to talk about. No wonder people don’t think you’re empathetic.” .
Why on earth would you even finish the date and let him walk you home? Excuse yourself to the ladies, call an Uber and leave!
"Women already have too many rights in this country, it's what is causing all these problems." - I just stared at them.
We had a friend in high school say to us that a good woman was like a cat: "you can ignore them as much as you want, do what you want with them when you feel like it, and if they start crying for attention you won't feel bad kicking them."
Now he's a middle-aged never-been-married father of multiple kids he is not allowed to see. Never would have guessed!
"It's hard for me to find a girlfriend my age because I want them to be a virgin, so I HAVE TO go for younger girls".
And when I asked him why he wanted them to be a virgin he said "because I find them disgusting when they've had a p*nis in them idk".
Speaking on behalf of women EVERYWHERE, we find YOU disgusting. Period. So there.
Any variation of that stupid quote “if they can’t handle me at my worst, they don’t deserve me at my best.”
Honestly, I hear this used by women more often than men. Either way it's toxic.
"She's too fat" a short balding friend says about a healthy weight women who is out of his league.
“You know how women like it when you show ‘em who’s boss?”.
I was at a party where a man had been invited specifically to meet a woman who would be there - it was a set up, in other words. He asked her to play pool, a very innocent and pleasant way to get to know someone, right? Well he immediately started to dominate the game and he held NOTHING back, including taunting her when she made bad shots (and just criticizing everything she did in general). Of course he won and rubbed it in her face like he was a 12 year old (Think - IN YOUR FACE, LOSER!!!!). And these people were in their 30's. It was straight out of a sitcom or something. Everyone who saw it knew why he was (and would remain) single.
My first date with my wife ended up in a pool hall. We played for over 1/2 hour before we both realized we were trying to let the other person win lol
Friend of mine struggles with anxiety and just generally doesn't handle social situations well, so struggled with women for many years. Finally got talking to a girl on a dating app and asked her out - he was taking her to lunch for the afternoon, and asked if my wife and I would meet them afterwards for drinks.
When we met them for drinks, it turns out they grabbed McDonald's and drove around town to places from Craigslist so he could buy Magic The Gathering cards. He wore sweatpants and flipflops (it was winter and snowy.) He spent most of our time angrily ranting about how an upcoming minimum wage increase was going to kill the economy and close businesses. He makes minimum wage.
He never saw her again.
He brought his mom on our first date and asked her to order for both of us.
"Women don't ever know what they want so why does their opinion matter? Have you ever been shopping with one or asked them where they want to eat?"
My first thought was, wow you're going to die alone or married to a woman that stuck around just to punish you.
I was on a first date and the guy was going on and on about some boys trip he just took with a few college buddies.
Then he said "and my friend, Rob, was like 'wait until these b**ches figure out we're not choking them because they like it!' hahaha!"
Like dude, you're telling me you hate women (or your friend does, and it amuses you) on our first date.
I was on one of these forums and a guy suggested that I do OnlyFans since my career is unsuccessful. I Googled his name and the first thing to pop up was a news story on him falsely accusing his girlfriend of bringing a bomb onto an aircraft. He was sentenced to 2 years of prison.
Quote from a bloke I used to work with...
"You'll never find me washing the dishes. That's women's work."
Guess he'll be using nothing but paper plates in his bachelor apartment.
Its hard to point to one particular thing but this ex co worker basically blamed every sickness, every societal ill, every wrong our world has on “Eve corrupting Adam with her stupidity and snakelike charms”. Dude would also complain how every girl he (forcibly) asked out would stand him up and ghost him. If he was still a co worker i can guarantee you he would label himself an “alpha”.
Pretty sure this was a first date, but the dude kept talking about military dictatorships and empires FOR ONE WHOLE HOUR. I’m not joking I don’t think I heard her open her mouth once except to pay the bill and this dude WAS LOUD. Highlights include: praising fascist dictatorships and getting a little too into the Portuguese caste system, she was black, he was white.
I wanted to write run on a napkin to her.
20yo guy receiving pocket money from his mother just went: "Women are just broke, depending on us to go on a date" (I was going to pay my half of the bill).
A guy I was taking to said if a man can overpower a woman it’s fair game. I don’t know if he really thought that or if he was just pulling people’s chains.
Dear BP, maybe let's give "sad" and "pathetic" and "disgusting" and "revolting" a bit of a rest, and go back to "delightful" and "funny", eh?
I know! The past several weeks BP has had some very negative articles. I know there is a contingent who love their drama, but I would prefer fun articles.
Load More Replies...It feels like we are ushering back in a bygone age. The alpha male, the Neanderthal at the keyboard, the incel, the trad husband / wife combo, I could go on. They’ve discovered friends across the internet who share their values and they seem to encourage each other. Women as property, women as eye candy or trophies, women who defer to their men, women as second class citizens, what is in the water? My partner deserves my respect and love, she’s my equal, my confident, we take on life’s challenges together as a team, sometimes she leads, sometimes I do, we are in sync and know who is best equipped to take things on, I’m not perfect, neither is she but we make a damn good team together. If you want to be in a strong relationship then I recommend using respect and trust as your starting point, not some Victorian values and thinking anyone else is beneath you in some way or other. PS we laugh a lot together, it oils the machine and keeps us somewhere north of sane.
Gavin, this was an incredibly lovely comment you made!
Load More Replies...Guys — if you like a woman, give her the respect she deserves. And don’t whine about it. That’s not complicated. It just requires basic civility.
BP is such a sad site in that 90% of its content is ripped from Reddit. When I first got here I thought I finally found a fun feel good site with pics of history and cats. Nope! Yo BP "writers" I'm mean copy pasters, if we wanted to read reddit: WE COULD JUST GO TO REDDIT. I'm losing interest in this site because of this nonsense.
It's not just Reddit, but a lot of other sites as well. Most of the news stories on BP are copy and pasted word for word from other websites. I personally don't mind Reddit posts because this is easier than sifting through Reddit, but if you don't like it just downvote it and we as a community can encourage BP to give us more art and less Reddit!
Load More Replies...Okay, with five exceptions out of seventy nine entries, yet another BP misandrist article “why half the human race is unworthy of love from the other half of the human race.” While in reality, billions of average, mature and well-adjusted men understand how rare and precious love actually is, and get up and go out into the world to support their families every day regardless of how unwelcoming a world it actually may be, in appreciation of that understanding.
Had to stop reading early on. I just wanted to throw up a bit; LOTS - through up lots
I remember discussing with someone the viral "I punched a guy for making rape jokes" story. He was trying to tell me how the women would clearly be punched back over five times as hard, which showed that she was being stupid, which was why women shouldn't be allowed to have this many rights and we should go back to the old days....It was wild! xD
Old guy saying to me, an LGBTQ woman in her late 20s, that he hates when “women don’t know their place.” I think he’s just mad that I’m not straight, but it’s one of the reasons I no longer use Whisper.
I can't imagine what woman would even consider spending time with any these losers.
I read a post on BP the other day that was aimed particularly at women and the comments were filled with "this is sexist", "incels posting now", etc. This post is 99% aimed against men, why the double standards? It's even sadder to see it was written by men (if you can call them that).
It's sad that all of these were male oriented, there are some self centered women out there as well.
Not to in any way dismiss the awful, stupid, and misogynistic things the so-called men in this--and many other articles--have said and done--but an occasional article about boorish behavior on the part of women would be appreciated, if only for balance sake. Or just stick to kitty memes and funny billboards.
Some of the things said here are said by women, or are said by both genders
Load More Replies...and coincidentally, pimps will be right there offering these precious beings the respect and consideration they deserve, plus pocket money and even association in their evil project. everything is staged, they started with exactly the same ideas 300 yrs ago when they had to extend prostitution beyond the usual poor, depressed targets, but in certain circles this happened much earlier.
Am I on a loud speaker!? I DEFINATELY SHOULD NOT BE!! ITS A MAJOR VIOLATION OF MY RIGHTS, SWITCHING ME IS TOO!!
I'm NOT "sharing a brain with" or "having two different ways of thinking" with ANYONE EITHER!!
Dear BP, maybe let's give "sad" and "pathetic" and "disgusting" and "revolting" a bit of a rest, and go back to "delightful" and "funny", eh?
I know! The past several weeks BP has had some very negative articles. I know there is a contingent who love their drama, but I would prefer fun articles.
Load More Replies...It feels like we are ushering back in a bygone age. The alpha male, the Neanderthal at the keyboard, the incel, the trad husband / wife combo, I could go on. They’ve discovered friends across the internet who share their values and they seem to encourage each other. Women as property, women as eye candy or trophies, women who defer to their men, women as second class citizens, what is in the water? My partner deserves my respect and love, she’s my equal, my confident, we take on life’s challenges together as a team, sometimes she leads, sometimes I do, we are in sync and know who is best equipped to take things on, I’m not perfect, neither is she but we make a damn good team together. If you want to be in a strong relationship then I recommend using respect and trust as your starting point, not some Victorian values and thinking anyone else is beneath you in some way or other. PS we laugh a lot together, it oils the machine and keeps us somewhere north of sane.
Gavin, this was an incredibly lovely comment you made!
Load More Replies...Guys — if you like a woman, give her the respect she deserves. And don’t whine about it. That’s not complicated. It just requires basic civility.
BP is such a sad site in that 90% of its content is ripped from Reddit. When I first got here I thought I finally found a fun feel good site with pics of history and cats. Nope! Yo BP "writers" I'm mean copy pasters, if we wanted to read reddit: WE COULD JUST GO TO REDDIT. I'm losing interest in this site because of this nonsense.
It's not just Reddit, but a lot of other sites as well. Most of the news stories on BP are copy and pasted word for word from other websites. I personally don't mind Reddit posts because this is easier than sifting through Reddit, but if you don't like it just downvote it and we as a community can encourage BP to give us more art and less Reddit!
Load More Replies...Okay, with five exceptions out of seventy nine entries, yet another BP misandrist article “why half the human race is unworthy of love from the other half of the human race.” While in reality, billions of average, mature and well-adjusted men understand how rare and precious love actually is, and get up and go out into the world to support their families every day regardless of how unwelcoming a world it actually may be, in appreciation of that understanding.
Had to stop reading early on. I just wanted to throw up a bit; LOTS - through up lots
I remember discussing with someone the viral "I punched a guy for making rape jokes" story. He was trying to tell me how the women would clearly be punched back over five times as hard, which showed that she was being stupid, which was why women shouldn't be allowed to have this many rights and we should go back to the old days....It was wild! xD
Old guy saying to me, an LGBTQ woman in her late 20s, that he hates when “women don’t know their place.” I think he’s just mad that I’m not straight, but it’s one of the reasons I no longer use Whisper.
I can't imagine what woman would even consider spending time with any these losers.
I read a post on BP the other day that was aimed particularly at women and the comments were filled with "this is sexist", "incels posting now", etc. This post is 99% aimed against men, why the double standards? It's even sadder to see it was written by men (if you can call them that).
It's sad that all of these were male oriented, there are some self centered women out there as well.
Not to in any way dismiss the awful, stupid, and misogynistic things the so-called men in this--and many other articles--have said and done--but an occasional article about boorish behavior on the part of women would be appreciated, if only for balance sake. Or just stick to kitty memes and funny billboards.
Some of the things said here are said by women, or are said by both genders
Load More Replies...and coincidentally, pimps will be right there offering these precious beings the respect and consideration they deserve, plus pocket money and even association in their evil project. everything is staged, they started with exactly the same ideas 300 yrs ago when they had to extend prostitution beyond the usual poor, depressed targets, but in certain circles this happened much earlier.
Am I on a loud speaker!? I DEFINATELY SHOULD NOT BE!! ITS A MAJOR VIOLATION OF MY RIGHTS, SWITCHING ME IS TOO!!
I'm NOT "sharing a brain with" or "having two different ways of thinking" with ANYONE EITHER!!