~~Men~~ Wearing Meta Glasses ~~on Dates~~ Is an Instant Red Flag
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That was my first though, yeah ...
On dates does add to it though
I've read this story about it where the people who bought them stopped wearing them within a few weeks because they felt uncomfortable wearing them - common theme was, when people notice you were those glasses they shun you and find an excuse to end the conversation. Guess people in general agree with you.
I thought the convention was to call them "perv glasses"?
Pervvision
How fucked up do you have to be to wear these to a date?
I am sure they go well with those apps that generate naked versions of people. Surely they exist for video as well.
People evidently wear them on dates then feed the footage to ai in order to improve their game.
Narrator: It doesn't work.
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Anyone wearing these anywhere is a huge red flag.
7 million? People actually bought this?
Jeez there's a lot of perverts in the world
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Where is the "hue hue people have cameras in their phone and you have no problem with that, checkmate" guy...I know you're in here.
The Instagram part of the story perfectly highlights the difference. Busting out a camera to start filming the entire date so I can make a highlight reel later is way more conspicuous than simply wearing my glasses. One leads to a discussion while the other is inconspicuous and likely never had consent in the first place.
This is the only sane take on perv glasses.
If someone pulled out their phone to photograph me on our first date, I'd nip that in the bud, and maybe just walk away. I guess I might be okay if there was a scenic background and they said "want to get a selfie together?" but a photo just of me across the table? Creepy.
And with a conversation about it all that can be laid out and consented to.
Hey this view is really pretty can we take a selfie? Sure!
Later that evening: Hey that photo came out good, do you mind if I post it to my Instagram? I'd prefer if you didn't.
Okay no problem.
It doesn't need to be any more complicated than this.
Yeah im a huge nerd and techno-weenie but this is just creepy abuser behavior and a major red flag if it wasn't consented to im advance
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Pervert glasses.
They’re called pervert glasses.
Get it right, Wired.
And let’s also lay it all out: the only people wearing them are sick enough in the head to need immediate institutionalization. Full stop, end of story.
I still like the original Glass Hole.
Fair enough, I just feel “pervert glasses” bring a darker and more socially unacceptable vibe. Because only perverts would ever think of using them.
Whynotboth.jpg 🧐 Glass hole pervert Pervert glasses wearing glass hole
My Meta Glasses memeable thought of the day:
If you feel violated when a private citizen follows you around with a camera, might want to also feel violated when the state follows you around with millions of cameras.
Right. Flock, et al. are a violation of our 4th Amendment rights. These “autonomous deputies” are annotating our movements and our private vehicles.
Oh, how fun. Now we'll all be even more repressed because literally every interaction will be recorded and you better not do anything cringe.
I'm old enough to remember when Google came out with their version. People went appoleptic and cried invasion of privacy. What happened, why were these not shunned in the same way? It's our because they just look like sun glasses? The only acceptable use for these is to aide blind people
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Velma Idk what it is about your post but they seem to make the misogynists crawl out of the network. Always multiple people telling on themselves in the comments. Not every post with "Men" in the title needs someone saying "b-but women!"
I think some people have decided Velma's username is "the place to settle the gender wars". They make a lot of posts and are pretty famous. I wouldn't be surprised if they have stalkers who follow every post, or at least the same people repeating the same opinions in different flavours. Usually some variation of "gender problems don't exist" denial.
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