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i'm sorry blacksmithing? I mean it's cool as fuck, don't get me wrong, but have you seen that shit? it's the LEAST sexy hobby by far.
Also, traveling is not a hobby, stop pretending it is. That's like saying veganism is a hobby.
anyway, my main hobbies consist of playing minecraft or factorio like an autist, fucking around with linux, or philosophy, so i probably score, somewhere...
What's with the anti blacksmithing sentiment? Most people just find someone's genuine passion to be an attractive quality, wherever their interests lie.
nothing wrong with it, it just isn't sexy or hot. The only "sexy" part of it is one of the less involved parts of it.
You still have to do a lot of cleanup and build work after the fact.
I mean i literally said as much in the comment lol
Not sexy? Perrin Aybara would like a word.
"this real life hobby isn't hot?"
links a fictional universe:
Apparently you're not sexy enough to understand
maybe not, but to be fair, i'm not really sure how many people consider smelling like coal and tasting like sweat sexy.
Throw in some steel and abrasive dust. And hooo buddy do we have a cocktail of... something.
I think it's more of what kind of people women are imagining as a blacksmith. They're probably imagining a rugged man in their 30s/40s with practical muscle definition and enough financial stability to have the time/land for their own personal forge.
Likewise Travelling is just a proxy for "a ton of disposable income, and willing to take their partner to nice places".
i guess from that perspective it makes more sense, but i feel like you could easily throw something like "yard work" in there it would be equally as strenuous and status based lmao.
Yard work is a chore. Gardening is on there though.
yes but now your suburban home looks good and you're proud of it. Seems relative equivalent to blacksmithing to me. Especially considering blacksmithing is actually the precursor to weapons manufacturing.
Gardening is close, though i think different enough to warrant being different.
My wife loved the idea that I was into wood cutting. What she didn't realize was when I said woodcutting, I meant I studied the blade and practiced chopping wood with my anime sword.
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I wonder if hobbies here may mean what people talk about primarily, because some aren't hobbies unless it's all you do or something. Like arguing online.
that might be the case, but i think this list is just... Poorly compiled to be honest.
Without knowing the prompt they replied to and how the scoring scale worked, its hard to take much from it.
Its like we took the useful and personal responses from each woman, randomized them and included outliers and things from other categories, and spit them out in a useless pile.
I've looked up the original article and some other articles, and one thing I've noticed is the ones here on lemmy focus more on what is highest vs lowest, while some articles focused on the comparison between men and women.
They had ~800 respondents, 48% identifying as women. They asked the same question, which I don't know the exact question but the gist was what percentage of women found this hobby attractive. There are some disparities in perception, usually towards the more attractive than men think.
For instance, one article pointed out men assumed 7% of women found MTG attractive, whike women responded with 28.5%. There were also charts that focused on the largest disparities:
i like to think it was just like, multiple different forms, not even one clean one. lol
I've always made the distinction that traveling is just going to average tourist stuff, beaches, camping, hiking, stuff like that, while traveling as a hobby is more like actually immersing yourself in the culture
yeah i understand the difference, but like i said, i feel like it's calling veganism a hobby. If you like travel to the point where you live in various different places of the world at different times, you don't travel as a hobby, you travel as a lifestyle.
It just doesn't feel right to call that a hobby to me. Is socializing also a hobby at this point? That seems like a weird thing to consider a hobby.
