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Have women taken the quest for perfection too far? It’s time to ignore some icks

Friends in relationships have one piece of advice for single women—work through the ick

It takes one second for a hero to become zero. He can breathe loudly and give his girlfriend an ick. He can repost an AI slop reel and be blocked. The floor is infested with icks—he only has to dip his foot once. What can he do if not cry about modern women’s high standards?

The already-long list of icks is growing longer every day. And some would say it’s getting quite unmanageable. The discourse around icks has taken a 360-degree turn in the last couple of years.

Have women taken the quest for perfection too far? We get the ick from anything and everything. And the fact that we are refusing to settle for any man less than remarkable has become a big problem for the manosphere.

Dating apps are reinforcing a pattern incels discuss on podcasts: Algorithms match a large number of women with a relatively small pool of sought-after men. Even Splitsvilla—one of the most hate-watched Indian reality shows where singles pair up to compete for odd “challenging” tasks—is struggling because contestants aren’t able to build a “genuine connection” with the opposite gender. Most of them are choosing paisa over pyar. And isn’t it wild that........

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