Do you find readers more attractive, Veeky Forums?

Even if they're lying, it doesn't matter. Nobody really gives a fuck. Everyone has their own studies

I'm with you, but it's a recipe for loneliness. Which isn't so bad if youre a massive reader.

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If there's recipes for loneliness call me chef

Nope.

I try to avoid talking about my Veeky Forums hobby in real life simply because everyone I've ever met who has described themselves as a "reader" or "lover of books" or whatever has been a giant pretentious tool without any semblance of self awareness that they are very unimpressive. I know I'm not smart and I don't pretend to be smart and whenever I see just the cringiest shit images on social media from pseud girls and boys about how they're so very different from everyone else because they would much rather be "eating pizza while reading Harry Potter" or whatever I just feel second hand embarrassment.

Well I have a gf who has me in her phone as sexy book worm Her and I are getting married this month And we have lots of sex

This is 100% true but written in such a way to make you doubt it.

Does she live in Canada and/or go to a different school so I don't know who she is?

Only if they're sincere

>This is 100% true but written in such a way to make you doubt it.

laughed out loud

Don't doubt you user, a lot of women actually feel the contrary. Of course, you don't have to be as attractive as pic related, but girls tend to find guys who are reading to be more sensible, and thus, more attractive.

I couldn't say. I've only ever known a handful of people who truly liked to read books whatsoever and only a couple who are real readers, the biggest readers all family.

If a grill starts acting like she reads a lot it's because she likes me, so in that sense people who say they read are attractive.

I've met way more smart, successful people than I have actual readers.

>but girls tend to find guys who are reading to be more sensible, and thus, more attractive.
>girls finding sensibility attractive

Capable sensibility is plenty attractive, but "I'm a boring pussy with nothing to say" sensibility is not attractive.

Depends on what they read. Most people tend to be literate.

Yes. I have struck gold- my girlfriend reads a lot, and not YA stuff. Grew up with classics all around her (her parents are a librarian and an english teacher). They've made her kind of misanthropic though-she doesn't really like other girls because she finds them boring.

Still, she's pretty and intelligent and talented. It's great, and she certainly told me that she found me more attractive for having a book in my hands.

no, I find it really unattractive and a red flag for stupidity. not being sarcastic or anything

Dating a lit major. Don't do it, trust me. You only like the idea of a qt3.14 being into books, but the reality is the complete opposite of the dream.

No matter how much and what they read, they still swallow what's currently on the political menu or what their friends are into. And they will never, I mean never, understand or appreciate works that do not touch feminine topics. And don't get me started on philosophy.

If you want to discuss lit and phil with someone, find a patrician friend or friends and hang out with them. You will learn much more.

Hey, I'm an 18 year old sophomore at a state uni (has quite the reputation for being a party school), but how do I find someone, preferably a senpai/older brother figure/or anyone in my year, who reads actual literature?

The thing is, it's much harder to do that at the university these days. Yeah, some folks are exceptions, but that makes the chances slightly higher at best. People here say that it's 'you fault for going to a shitty school', but I think that's nonsense, especially seeing all the crap that goes down in Yale, Harvard etc. It seems ever worse there.

You can try and make friends with as many people in your classes as possible until you see who's who and finding out who is a good friend candidate.

You will have more luck outside, I guess. Attend book promotions (unless they are some nonsense like >), find people online on forums, join groups if you are on FB etc. The FB thing is actually alright. You can find groups for almost any type of interest. That's how I became friends with a dude who was into translating Middle English. He was pretty based.

What's wrong with Murakami?

Women love that shit, be confident in yourself and don't be pushy about it, they do notice.
With some luck you might find a lit gf

that guy reeks of betanass, assuming he's not an ftm tranny, he definitely gets zero pussy. don't get me wrong plenty of artsy faggots with weak beards get pussy, but it's plain to see that guy does not

If they read classics, yes. What's most important to me is that they like either arthouse film and/or kino anime movies/series. Reading isn't really an activity you can share with a partner.

>And they will never, I mean never, understand or appreciate works that do not touch feminine topics
i think that's true actually.
not necessarily a bad thing though, everybody prefers art/people they can relate to. it makes it hard as a conversational topic and it can get boring if they only want to talk about sylvia plath and feminist novels, but then dudes have a range of boring male interests that women are sick of hearing about too.
have some patience and try to see the positives in having differences.

The average guy today. The funny thing is, women like that nu-male shit and liberalism, but they never fuck them. Enjoy the friend-zone, cuhcks. kek

I agree with the second part of your post in general, but thing are different when you are dating someone.

It's okay to have a discussion over a coffee with someone and disagree before shaking hands and going your own way. You learn like that, as you debate.

But when you date that person? It gets tiresome very quickly and no matter how much potential for learning there is one party will keep getting frustrated.

Opposites attract at first. Not so much after the honeymoon phase.

Maybe it's just me, I don't know. I feel as if a lot of people are spinning their identities and world views around one or two things and nothing else.

>You can try and make friends with as many people in your classes as possible until you see who's who and finding out who is a good friend candidate.
I guess I could do that, but it's genuinely terrifying how uncommon or even rare reading has become.

Regarding book promotions and Facebook groups, aren't those typically filled with middle aged people? I feel young even at my university (graduated HS at 16).

>Opposites attract at first. Not so much after the honeymoon phase.
nah senpai, similar socioeconomic levels are the main source of attraction

Please elaborate what you mean?

What's your major?

>aren't those typically filled with middle aged people
I found them diverse, age-wise.

>Please elaborate what you mean?
Whether you realize it or not, socioeconomic factors pretty much dictate who you'll end up with. You're just more likely to date someone of similar physical attractiveness, education, status/class, and ethnic group.

I major in Supply Chain Management and Computer Information Systems.

No, they have unreasonable expectations and want to live out their favorite books.

when i was a lil commie i always didn't want to believe this, but it's p true, i don't want to be with someone poorer than me because i figure they either have no skills or poor money management, and might fuck my finances, and somebody too rich, i'll always be resentful of them and shit, so it's just easier to marry your same level...same with looks, i tried fucking chicks uglier than me, but they are actually harder to fuck than hot chicks cuz they think u are fucking with them or something, like they will friendzone themselves, like how betaguys do, etc. so i end up fucking p hot chicks which i guess is better in the end, but it's weird how that works out

Yes, I want nothing more than a Veeky Forums bf to talk about classics with-but I'd also like it if he watched arthouse films and vidya, you know, things we can do together. Reading is a solitary pursuit.

Basically, no. Attractiveness is independent of reading activity. If I see a physically attractive girl reading a book, I will naturally become interested in what she's reading. But if she's ugly, you won't catch me trying to peer over her shoulder. Mere reading activity doesn't imply confluent interests, and confluent interests don't imply conversational ability or compatible personalities or anything else.

9 times out of ten if u see a chick reading it's just same gay pop comedy shit anyways, i can count the amount of times i've seen a chick, hot or not, reading something non-pleb on one finger (to be fair the amount of men if i cared to remember might be one hand)

i should qualify that I was referring to on the subway, i've seen people reading patrish shit plenty of times, but i mean in obvious public places that aren't a college campus, not so much

>Whether you realize it or not, socioeconomic factors pretty much dictate who you'll end up with. You're just more likely to date someone of similar physical attractiveness, education, status/class, and ethnic group.

Well, yeah, I can see where you're coming from like that; but we're talking about attraction and dating because of similar interests like reading, not socioeconomic similarities. We're not discussing settling down or anything either.

Shit, then. I thought you were at least in the humanities.

You'll probably have a harder time finding someone in school. But look at the bright side -- you don't have to deal with the mess that is going on the humanities.

>you don't have to deal with the mess that is going on the humanities.
What do you mean by this? If I had affluent parents, maybe I would have majored in the humanities, but I come from immigrant parents who came from nothing, so as a first-gen college student, I fell for the STEM meme in hopes of relative success.

>What do you mean by this?

Hate to be that guy, but the humanities are now Marxist to the core. You will find nothing but strawman arguments, reductionism of most complex issues to power dynamics and most perfunctory things being made into complicated issues, politicizing of art, etc.

>inb4 /pol/

No, I just wish schools weren't so cultish, is all.

If I have common fields of interest with a girl and have the ability to have intelligent conversations I would be more attracted to her, and would pay less attention to her appearance if she's not very good-looking, which would be different if I found her dumb and boring. I rarely meet such girls so I don't feel the need to waste my time trying to get laid with retarded air heads.

Yeah. Well read girls are more attractive and so are men that aren't pushy and don't pretend they like shit they don't just to impress some chick in a bar. Speaking about something with passion and verve is more important than desperately trying to find sonething to bridge the gap. You might even unwittingly make a convert. I got some bird to read Gogol once.

Slightly off-topic but the only girls I've ever encountered in creative writing classes have either been cute-sexy or land whales/twigs, with very little exception.

Eh, my gf is in the cute sexy category. Just take what you can get, I've noticed that dichotomy too.

Are Yu me?

Not true user, someone I was seeing last month [it petered out and left me sad :( ] is bilingual, compulsively reads classics (in both English and Romanian) and actually told me that I was being too harsh on Henry Miller for saying he was too "male gaze-y". (Then she said that reading Nin and Bataille made her wet and all the blood left my head...)

She made me read Doctor Zhivago then we spent an evening discussing it. Then I made her read Bataille and she made me read more Miller. I sincerely hope I can make her read Gerard de Nerval. Seriously user, it's fucking rare but who knows, you might meet someone like this. Got told I was "a really close friend" but getting drunk and translating poems from our second langauges together next week, so who knows?

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this, I cucked a Jordanian man for a bit and his lit BA wife wouldn't shut the fuck up about femininity and kept trying to push her silly books on me.

he writes the same book every time and he's an actual cuck

Of course

No, I don't find them.

That's just how women are in general, they are unable to relate to anything that isn't about themselves.

Gayboi here, it depends on what they read.

Guys who read good books
>
Guys who dont read
>>>>>
Guys who read shitty books

I suppose. But I only really care if she's Jewish.

>tfw no Jewish gf

>being a literal faggot

What's it like knowing no parent will ever leave their son alone with you?

but user my boyfriends parents leave us alone all the time.
when else do you think he puts his dick in my ass?

>everyone I've ever met who has described themselves as a "reader" or "lover of books" or whatever has been a giant pretentious tool without any semblance of self awareness that they are very unimpressive.
Wow it's like Veeky Forums irl

>t. guy who never realized entry-level phil & lit classes are the best way to get laid
Look smart, then make them feel smart. It's easiest if they're pseuds, but if they can actually think, that works too.

How many of them have you bedded?

Only 3. I prefer long-term relationships, so once I realized pickup type shit wasn't gonna get me what I wanted, I stopped. Current gf is a reader, but we met on tinder.

Meant for

>not me though
grow up

stop posting that shit on lit you literal faggot

are you me?

Gaston is the true hero of this movie, it was about how intellectuals always kowtow before power. Belle was a class traitor the instant she became an intellectual.

Cool Marxist analysis of Disney movies bro, wanna take it to the White House

>ruining the spine

You and the women you attract disgust me

That's grand, they're all incredibly hot.