This week's poll was suggested by CrookedSmile. Some of my friends love the types of questions where you have to choose between A or B. This one deals with the looks of a spouse compared with the love for the hobby

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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe there is other intelligent life (aliens) in the universe?
Choices:
We are alone in the universe - votes: 557 (11.5%)
They exist, and a select few humans have seen them - votes: 521 (10.7%)
They exist and are hidden among us - votes: 508 (10.5%)
They exist, but they haven't visited Earth yet - votes: 3275 (67.4%)
There were 4861 total votes.
The poll ended: July 14th 2018

Wow, 3 of the options have around 10% of the votes each

Last edited by lambchopsil at 11:48 pm, Jul 22 2018

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A just ruler amongst tyrants

So far I always think that I don't want a spouse but I know I'll need one eventually mmm...
So I choose the least picked probably which is "The ugly and loves anime/manga" since so far, I like girls more because of their personality rather than their look, so having similar interest adds a lot of point to that mmm...

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I will change this world mmm...
So the world can change me mmm...

"The beautiful / handsome and hates anime / manga" there is always mind control or well, convincing them to watch it so that they see how good it is. If that doesn't work, you can always take away half of their stuff with you when you divorce them... if I was a woman in the US, but I'm a dude so I would be the one screwed.

Either way, I would never be in a relationship with someone so close minded as to not even give something a chance, so if the beautiful spouse is also a closed minded .... I would rather be with someone who loves anime or I would just be forever alone. People can like whatever they want, but at least have a good reason as to why you hate something. If you think "anime is for children" I will have to slap you.

Excuse me?! Isn't personality more important and whether you actually get along? I'd rather have an ugly husband who I can build something with, not some beautiful/handsome one who possibly ruins my life. That poll is seriously superficial. Spouses have power over you, basing everything on looks is dangerous. Wtf.

An easy question this time, since I have no intention of ever marrying

But even if I did, I think there are much more important attributes to one's partner than whether or not they share your hobby, as long as they don't disrespect it (because being condescending towards something your s.o. loves so much is a pretty bad sign, imo). And if you decide your partner based on looks, well, that's just poor judgement on your part.

Umm... Physical attractiveness is relative to personal taste. I surely don't want someone I think ugly, although others might not agree with me. But I'd rather pick the one that interested in anime/manga.

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Excuding the first two options, I'm surprised that most people would prefer a good looking spouse who hates anime/manga. I'm not implying that looks are absolutely unimportant, in fact the first thing we notice when we meet someone new is their physical appearence and that's just natural*. What I'm saying is that, as an avid manga reader, I don't think I could ever live with someone who really hates one of my greatest passions because I would feel that they also look down on me for liking "such a thing".

[*however, it is not okay to marginalize other people based on that and not even trying to know them better.]

It'd be interesting to know how male/female votes are split for this...

Never go for looks alone, the odds are you'll regret it (a lot)

None of the options really suit me. 1) If I'm choosing a spouse to be together with for life, their looks aren't going to be the most important factor. After all, looks change over time. 2) Their interest in manga/anime also wouldn't be a very important factor because I could marry someone who doesn't like anime or manga if we have other things in common.

Where's the beautiful/handsome manga lovers
To me these 4 choices are implying that only ugly people like manga/anime. My heart just took a critical hit.

"It depends"
Are we talking 0/10 ugly here? Are we talking 10/10 beautiful here? Do they truly love me in general if you remove all anime / manga from the picture?

I've seen what 0/10 girls look like, there's no amount of personality that can fix that.

I don't want a spouse.

I think you cannot have 100% the same interest as the person you love. It would help though not getting hate from the lover for the thing you love. I think you can be with someone who hates horror movies and loves them yourself and get along just fine.

still, it would be really tricky, if you are a super otaku that has all collectibles or paintings or posters, then I don't think it might work. If I hate something, I would tolerate a collection in a curio cabinet, but not everywhere as an overwhelming decoration.

There's really no need to share interests. Might even be better to have a hobby of your own for your own time. Sharing everything is pointless. Just share something, not all of your hobbies, because people are bound to be more into something than someone else or feel different about something at any given time than someone, say, you wanna watch something but you have to watch it together, but only you wanna watch it. Impractical.

If that is the options, I'm remaining single.

And, to the people saying that "looks don't matter", yes, they do. Your look advertises who you are by the way you walk, how you dress, how you treat your body, and so on. "Ugly" people don't care about that, which is why they are, by definition, ugly. They don't take care of themselves, not the way they look, not the way they treat other people, not how they live, etc. All they want to do is just wallow in their filthy life and drag people down along with them while demanding that people have to accept their lifestyle. So the question becomes do you really want to spend the rest of your life with a person like that?


Last edited by Transdude1996 at 4:41 pm, Jul 14 2018

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