In my impression, my former colleague "lower average" is a beautiful man with strong principles.
Since the day I met him, this guy has been deeply trapped in the whirlpool of abstinence, and has been forcing himself to maintain "Haoran righteousness" and never be trapped by lewdness. Even his motto is the one written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in "The Dream of the Absurd": "Almost all people on our earth cannot escape the doom of lewdness, and lust is the root of all human evil."
You see, if you can go back to ten years ago, the "lower middle" level is a small bar owner who abstains from color - wearing a crown of five Buddhas, wearing a hundred clothes made of underwear of bar friends, and leading bar friends to recite the "Heart Sutra of Sex Caution" every day.
It's a pity that there are no ifs in this world. Moreover, now that the color of this ring bar has also changed, everyone can't avoid it, so it can only be an eternal regret to see the "lower middle" pretending to be a high-ranking monk. But fortunately, he found the "Zhengqi APP" and continued to quit sex.
Of course, the crows in the world are as black as they are, and some people in China quit sex, and foreign countries are certainly no exception. If the "Zhengqi APP" is a "lower-average" quit color, then TikTok is the "Huoxiang PPA" for today's United States women.
That's right, it's the TikTok you think. But why did it become a sex abstinence APP?
To put it simply, a well-known talk show actor in United States, Hope · Woodward, mentioned in an offline performance: We sisters in Generation Z should wake up, and we should not continue to be consumed by men.
Immediately, Hope elaborated his theory: United States women in Gen Z have been consumed by men too many times. After all, nine out of ten men they meet will take the initiative to talk to them about the universe, Schopenhauer, life, childhood trauma, and unfettered freedom until late at night on the first day they meet. And they will feel that they have met Prince Charming. But at this time, the man on the other side of the screen will suddenly change his words, saying that he is a little lonely in the middle of the night, can he take a few legs in stockings to see, it is best to tear them......
Therefore, instead of constantly falling into this meaningless emotional exchange and wasting emotional value in vain, it is better to take the initiative to attack these troubles and use all this energy to focus on yourself.
So, Hope started the "Boysober Challenge" on TikTok, calling on Jimei in the United States to quit dating, abstaining from male sex, and abstaining from sex, and this period is best calculated in years.
It is worth mentioning that Hope has more than 500K followers on both TikTok and Instagram combined. Therefore, the challenge she launched received support from all sides, and British women from all states in the United States responded in groups and started their own "Boysober Challenge" on TikTok.
In the process of checking in every day, many women said: Jimei, quitting color is really useful! When I stopped thinking about "Crush", everything seemed to be rushing! Now, you don't need to think about what gifts to give Crush to please them, and you can spend your money as you like. In addition, I also had a lot of time to focus on self-improvement, and even took the opportunity to learn to "reverse into the garage and park on the side".
You can feel it by looking at this facial expression and mental state
In this regard, many Gen Z women in the comment area deeply agreed, and they all felt that their lives were better without men. Sure enough, Hope's "Boysober Challenge" is the "sildenafil" that really works.
Being a solo trainee who has been single for two and a half years, it feels really good
It should be noted that in the post-epidemic era, the number of offline dating for men and women United States Generation Z has been greatly reduced, and it has been replaced by various dating apps. Nowadays, the behavior of Gen Z women who flip the table and don't play is naturally the first to be affected by those dating apps. For example, Bumble, which has been promoting "giving women more choices", has lost more than half of its paying users during this time, most of whom are women.
This also forced the software to take the initiative to make huge physical advertisements saying that celibacy asceticism is never the right answer, you should not give up dating to become an abstinent nun, etc., in order to regain lost users.
But it has to be said that this kind of advertising full of "humor" is not like a kind of retention, but more like sarcasm and yin and yang. As a result, the ad has received an even more fierce backlash from female users, who believe that Bumble is just as tasteless and vulgar as the platform's male users. As a result, Bumble ushered in another stock price crash and user churn, even if they were on their knees at the speed of light.
At the moment, Gen Z women are even proud of "not having Bumble in their phones".
However, celibacy is not a fashion item that belongs to one group alone, and since the "Boysober" that favors women will naturally have "Girlsober" - not only are Gen Z women tired of this "two-way blind guess" dating method, but Gen Z men are also the same.
In the eyes of Gen Z men, dating is like this: these women are just thinking about how to drain my wallet and keep trying to get money out of my pocket. If the gift I buy doesn't meet the standard they have in mind, I immediately get a look of disgust. But when I gave it all up and chose to stay away from women, I never felt like I was so rich.
As a result, Gen Z men have also begun to respond to each other's calls and start the "Girlsober" movement.
You see, if the 60s of the 20th century were the "sexual liberation movement" of the United States, then the 20s of the 21st century must be the "sexual atrophy movement" - obviously, the young people of Generation Z in the current situation have fallen into a state of mutual dislike.
It is worth mentioning that a survey of Gen Z youth conducted by the University of California in 2021 showed that young people of Gen Z have even experienced less sex than their predecessors. But it stands to reason that 60 years after the "sexual liberation" movement, young people should have easier access to "sexual partners". Obviously, there is only one reason for this phenomenon – young people are actively giving up their "sexual partners".
What's the problem?
On the one hand, at a time when the relationship between men and women is becoming more and more tense, everyone is reluctant to take the initiative to get involved in trouble, and it is good not to be alone;
On the other hand, Gen Z men and women are out of money. In this era where it's better to make money than anything, since you can't get money, it's better to leave it to yourself.
It cannot be denied that Generation Z youth are a group of people born in the era of the information explosion, and they deserve more opportunities and more convenience. But in fact, the young people of Generation Z go to college casually, and they are burdened with high tuition loans - they are in debt after graduation, which I am afraid no one can accept.
At the same time, in an environment where everyone is holding their breath and comparing each other to who is worse, it is difficult to find a job even after graduation, and the salary you get to get a job cannot afford to buy a house - it can only be crammed into the same room as your parents.
But apparently, the place where the sperm and egg are combined is not the uterus, but in a house where no one is disturbed.
But now, when I want to have some "fun" with my partner, my parents are in the next room, which ...... It's a little embarrassing to think about it, right?
Therefore, young people in Generation Z have the ability to earn more money, and those who are unable to spend less, and then live their own "Sober life" without interfering with each other - in a sense, it can be regarded as a helpless "win-win".
However, what is more interesting is that when Hope promoted the "Boysober" movement, he launched a series of OEM trend culture shirts, and brought the goods himself, by the way, this is the logo of "contemporary independent awakening young women". And this behavior also makes the women who support her regard the "Boysober" cultural shirt as a kind of identity, and only when she wears it is a real "Boysober girl".
Therefore, Horton's "Taobao store" is often in short supply and out of stock.
You see, the "Sober life" that people have no money or leisure to pursue may be really cool. But Horton, who is also a Gen Z youth, got off to a good start for everyone, and then ran behind the "Boysober Girl", wanting to end the "Sober life" one step ahead of the others.
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