Last time I tried that I got a restraining order

first to reply to this

And remember in the words of beyonce “I’m a single lady >:3”

@@jojoardestani4521 haha

@@jojoardestani4521 oof

I got that as soon as she misquoted a Beyoncé song lol

Literally from her introduction lmao

got it from the title of her ted talk

I'm the single woman

Haha you're not alone

Yeah I thought it would be like an insight into being single while being high up in one’s career rather than just.... a rant about how it sucks that /she/ is single

@@alicecollins9918 That'd be an actually great talk, but from how she doesn't say just what her job is (after telling the audience that she's got a good career) despite constantly telling them that she has a PhD, she's probably not that high up in her career

Yeah it started somewhat strong but kinda fell apart near the end. I kinda have to feel sorry for her

@S S YES you put into words EXACTLY what I've been trying to say this WHOLE TIME TYSM

Its so bad

My boyfriend is 5'4 but he is literally the sweetest and cutest. I love him so much and I always have to remind him that I don't give a damn about his height and to stop listening to men and women when they try to make fun of it.

@@nesnonya3463 Thank you for treating that short king the way he deserves to be treated, the world would be a better place with more people like you in it.

@@nesnonya3463 he's Lucky he found someone like you.. I'm 6'2 and I had a friend who wouldn't stop asking me how to grow more tall. We were 16 at the time.. He was focused, talented, caring and funny.. I always considered myself lucky to have a friend like that.. But I was always sad that someone crippled his confidence like that.. Someone convinced him that he had to be tall.. What's with these people, I never understand

People should stop caring about height so much like wtf.

@@warden1606 I've seen that mostly in the West... well people do tend to be taller in the West. But yeah this is a new thing and everyone is infected with it. Outside west there is a demand for tall guys but it's not that superficial. Its kind of catching on though...so who knows in few years same fever will be here too....

"0/10. She failed me because she was jealous of me and my awesome bf."

She definitely would suck. She would be so bitter and mad all the time lol

"Always passive aggressively upset in class and complains about dating. Think something happened halfway through the semester because she started failing everyone for every assignment"

Reminds me of the teacher from the first episode of Madoka Magica: "Question: are eggs made sunny-side up or down?" "[whispers] I guess it didn't work out..."

That’s the vibe I was getting. What the point of this talk? Did she write a script or outline for the speech? Did she even have an objective in mind when she stepped on stage?

😂 oof!

Honestly, same. She exhibits an insufferable, heavy energy.

she seems like rude, kinda? like good, she thinks highly of herself, but it's like she only thinks highly of herself because she wants to get a man. she's like a Nice Girl, the female version of a Nice Guy

She doesn’t seem fun or the type of person who could take a joke. Like, yes people will occasionally comment on your singleness, just brush it off and move on.

@@lciav yea, I agree. She seemed very bitter about it and that definitely is not someone people want to date

When she rolled her stats she got 0 in self-awareness.

oooooof 😂😂💀

I hope she stays single...she just doesn’t get what’s wrong.

That's the astounding thing. Plus she's supposed to be oh so smart.

Maybe she is staying single so she can upgrade from tedX and get to do a real ted talk. /s

Any person who says "I am fine with being single" or "I am fine with being married" sounds like they are just trying to convince themselves that they are. "I am fine with X" *always* sounds like thinly veiled resentment.

i totally dont care about being single, i only made a fuxking ted talk about it.

F

I'm 33 and happily single and happily divorced. Me and the ex wife left on good terms, her friend served me, while we met for dinner. It was fun a lot of great memories but we just fell out of love different interests. Though I noticed when I get lonely its just to hang out with people and not a relationship. I've had a few friends with benefits situations and feel thats all I need, just hang out, have relations and hang out again. Saves so much trouble and stress. Maybe I'll get into a serious relationship one day, but for now its the best years to run around!

I’ll tell ya what anyone who has ever had like a 50 point list about requirements for their partner isn’t someone I’d ever date lol. She’s treating it like I don’t even know something to conquer a game, I have like one check mark and it’s mostly that I’m happier around them than I am alone. Sometimes you’re not even sure why you like them so much, shits complicated.

This comment deserves more likes. You hit the nail on the head.

Female incel

Wow, I didn't even realize that. I thought she was proving that she was being an idiot and shortening the list because her expectations are impossible to reach, and now she's learning to not be superficial but then I realized that you're right. Her list never changed she doesn't think men are capable of being what she wants. She doesn't realize that men don't want her, she thinks she's the one that is pushing men away, when it is the opposite. Holy cow.

My addition to this: "I moan about how I've been pressured to get married and have a family won't someone please get married and have a family with me?"

"Also, I like to dictate what small talk you're allowed to make with me. How dare you try to care about me and my life! I also don't give a crap about your life. Go away, peasant!"

THIS IS SPAHHT AHHN!

I'm just loving that she has that Rosanne Barr whine. lol

Also "How dare you speak to me with grammatically incorrect sentences and modern slang? Even though my PhD is in history, I will act like an English teacher."

so true. She seems like the person to rant about how great she is and "why can't I find a guy? I'm so perfect!" but her neediness and unrealistic standards are the very reasons she's still single.

The whole time I was like... so where is she going with this? Nowhere. Nowhere is where she's going with this.

I mean she made an entire TED(x) talk about it

Spot on assessment. I mean she literally made a TED x to talk about it.

Does TED just like let ANYBODY speak now?

I have a PhD! WhY aM I bEinG InsUltEd by MagAzInEs?!

😂😂😂😂😂

That's hilarious if this presentation is just one giant tilt.

Headcanon accepted Edit: wait no, she had slides Edit edit: Actually that makes it even funnier

I screamed at this comment omg

lmao, I'm going with this analysis.

I think it's cause she's out of breath

That's how I talk when I have to speak in public 😭 it's like being nervous gives me smaller lungs or something lmao.

I've been there, she was probably just really nervous.

Ugh yeah her voice is so whiny sounding, I hate it

OH MY GOD YOUR USERNAME🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂

Self-awareness is another.

A brain.

😂 That sounds like something that would happen on a sitcom. Like "We need a slot filled for our Tedx event but we can't think of anyone to ask to fill it. Anyone got any recommendations?" Then someone remembered the professor at the college down the street who mentioned she had a PHD 11 times so they figure she'd be perfect for the job. Then, when the time comes for her to do her talk, it's just this rant about how unfairly the world treats her because she's single and how ungle men try to hit on a solid 10 like her

L.O.L.

@@Keychain696 YES YES YES!

OMFG

Yeah, ngl but I can definitely see this as an Elaine subplot in Seinfeld. I can even hear the canned dead people laughing in the dead air parts. Then the fact that this is real life hits and it hits hard.

Priorities I guess

🤣

What are your yu talking about? Who cares if there not a jerk if there under 6ft

I actually applaud her for being honest, at least. 🤷‍♂️

And erased ‘not a jerk’ before ‘political beliefs’. I’d be ok dating someone who’s like a centrist as long as they’re not a jerk yknow

Let's not act like most men have ANY standards at all lol. She's single purely due to her own messed up standards and clearly needs to talk it out on therapy.

@@GentM2015 Sexist?

@@GentM2015 might be

@@GentM2015 Ah yes because 'most' men are indiscriminately looking for literally any females they can find to date them. She definitely has issues of her own to work through, but let's also not act like most men don't also have basic standards for other humans they want to be with? I'm sure someone might go for her, but it won't last long when she's that annoying.

she's not even shrill, her voice is so soothing

Anyone regardless of gender who feels they need to say "i'm funny, i'm intelligent" etc is usually none of those things and it's suprising they don't understand saying you are funny or smart is not a good look to anyone other then themselves.

Just go to Asia. Lot of short women who don't care about height. ez

Don’t worry king, in my experience most women don’t care about height at all, or if they do it’s not this high on the list for them. You’ll find someone someday

I have never, not one time in my life took height as a requirement for dating a man. In fact, at 5'4, I preferred a man either my height, or shorter, not much taller. I wanted the man who was a gentleman. I do not understand these snooty girls today, they complain they can't find a decent man, but they don't want to be a decent woman. Never judge a person by that which they have no control. Stay cool. Do not let the stupid stuff get you down.

@infinite-ichthyologist It's the loudest ones who never have anything real to say. Ignore the ignorant, the stupid and the classless. It's not worth ruining your self-esteem over.

@@SharkyOverlord "in my experience most women don’t care about height at all, or if they do it’s not this high on the list for them. You’ll find someone someday" You must have been in a coma for the last five years. The "Under 6' swipe left" thing has become an EPIDEMIC.

She doesn't deserve him anyways

Is fat herself

This comment needs more likes🤣

Poor guy

You dodged a bullet then

And saying how hard and sad it is but also say they shouldn't pity her...

One of those "didn't ask" moments.

Don’t forget how in the middle, she complains about gender norms and societal standards making her feel bad for not getting married and settling down, but immediately goes on to say how she wants to get married and settle down. This whole Ted Talk is a contradiction lmao

"I am a decent catch" "I am realistic" Says it all!

Also, absolutely nothing wrong with how she looks but commenting on the fact that she's a catch, something that's entirely subjective, and then fatshaming men and judging them for being short is a yikes. Like? Maybe you aren't a fuckin catch then, ma'am- or maybe, just maybe, the guys you're publicly trashing were catches too!

Lol, I had a history teacher like that too... we used to say that he was more interested in telling us *his history* than teaching actual History 😂😭

I've heard so many people had this history teacher. I was fortunate enough to have an AMAZING history teacher. Actually taught history, was funny & engaging, and treated students with respect & did his best to help us understand the material and get good grades.

I have a teacher like that but he also loves to complain about social issues. Not many people complain because listening to him compare the government to Big Brother and other such fictional institutuions is somehow better than doing any work. He's using his literally captive audience to his benefit, even if It's to our detriment.

@@cary1056 haha, that must be funny to watch 😂 it kinda reminds me of the fact one year, at my highschool, there was a Russian teacher who was, I quote, a "hardcore tsarist pro-Putin" 😅 the kids who had taken Russian as a subject always used to come to our classroom during break to tell us about the wildest things he said during class (for some reason our timetable was made so all the students of our grade who picked an "exotic" language were the only one who had class on _saturday morning_ , so the arabic, hebrew, chinese and russian students often gathered during break, mainly to share snacks while complaining about the unfairness of having to wake up at 6:30 am on the weekend to go to school). Among other peculiarities, this teacher hung a poster of Vladimir Putin in his classroom at the beginning of the year (even though teachers in my country have an ethical obligation of political/ideological neutrality in a class setting and are supposed to not disclose their political/religious/militant affinities to their student, since propaganda and proselytism is forbidden in school), and every time someone took it away, he would put another one and add one more (by the time it reached to 5 posters people just gave up on trying to take them down). He had apparently very, ermmm... special theories on a wide range of topics, from "the truth behind 9/11" to "pineapples are inherently evil because they actually came from hell and were brought to earth by the devil himself". Other teachers were basically terrified by him, but his students liked him because at every class something insane was bound to happen/be said. Retrospectively I kinda wish I took Russian to see that in person 😂

In a way, it seems like he did end up teaching some ancient history 🤣

Hopefully her therapists saw this, this is gold

A speech therapist, at the very least

@@sniperwolf50 damn!!!!!

all therapists tell you these days is what the person wants to hear. They'd be all, " You go girl!.. you're killing it! ... self reflect? No! .. you do you girl.. the men are crazy if they don't like you"

@@delesdog isn’t therapy great?

Oof

Hahaha nailed it!! 😂

Best comment award 🏆

right - RIGHT ON the nose there, buddy

It is painful to witness.

right??? i was like “where the fuck am I”

I think her PhD is more of a "Poop-head Degree" than a "Philosophy Doctorate".

Well she does, it's in crappy citation.

She probably gotten her work from there

It's PhD in history. I imagine the requirement is pretty low compared to *useful degrees.

Wait what

Truly disgusting that some "pipin" would do this horrible thing.

I can’t believe Scott is supporting him smh

I feel like this is gonna turn into a sketchy news article headline that didn't do their research first

@@zacharydommenge859 oh no these comments are spreading...

Sir, Kamala Harris exists

Right? She sounds like a bad 90s stand up comic. The overused & lame stereotypes, the lack of self-awareness, the second hand embarassment. 😭 Ouchhh. If she wants a relationship though, I sincerely hope she finds a good one. If this were me I'd want this Ted talk deleted off the internet, lol. 😭

She definitely would have benefited more by going to a therapist to help figure out the best way to meet a good guy for her than reading magazine articles about it.

phd programs really fuck with your head man, you get so isolated focusing all your time on one program thats not for everyone obviously but some people, especially if they go into a phd program immediately right after grad school, they lose social skills fast

She is beyond the 30 years mark, chubby, probably a little too political/feminist, and gets clingy or upset very easily. Looks 3/10 and personality 3.5/10 sooo she should settle for the nice short fat guy, imo.

@@alpina4115 valuing women only by their ability to be in a relationship is wack lmao.

not even typos like thats literally how a lot of people talk???

@@EzioHanitore yeah but I'm going off of her acting like it was full of typos because it's honestly more ridiculous to imagine her reading that and thinking it was just someone who didn't know how to spell, like how out of touch could she possibly be?

Also seems like she doesn’t consider that typos can come from people with dyslexia

@@OpossumOnTheMoon unless the ppl with dyslexia have a phd she probably still thinks they're stupid tho lmao

@@mycologyqueer damn, I guess I can’t date this hot catch, smfh

She looks tall af too

Ikr And, like, what’s wrong with shorter guys anyway? I prefer it when guys are kinda short

I’m short af and single for the first time ever in my 30s.I’m getting my ass kicked out here lol I’m attractive and amazing and it doesn’t matter at all.it will work out eventually but dam online dating is brutal 😂

@@kamikamkamm eh I guess it's just preference but when it gets to the point where people have an absurd standard it's just annoying.

I assume you meant “not a jerk”

Someone’s gonna go on a first date with her, find this talk (maybe not immediately, but someday), and find out she wouldn’t be a great person to spend the rest of their lives with (y’know, if they don’t figure it out immediately)

@@bdl2157 yea i dont think theyll need the tedx talk tho

I bet she has a short fit dude she complains about being single too, but has turned down several times.

It seems like she is so heavily career focused that she uses her success as an excuse to avoid necessary soul searching.

the number of people lacking this essential skill (self-awareness) is starting to get scary

Truly. It’s very obvious and I hope she realizes soon lol

Yep.

I gave the 666th like...I'm not sorry lolz

Is in History. Like one of toys that come with happy meals

Yes

@@cristianproust she coulda got it in some better field like archeology or anthropology. where you have more value to society, but alas all her knowledge about history doesn't allow her to reflect on her own :(

Same here tbh

Makes me happy for him, with a very slight touch of “god I wish that was me”

I’ll never know what it’s like to love someone as a young person and be with them forever. But I do know what it’s like to meet the perfect person when you’re 29. And the wait was so very worth it. No settling, just ten years of wedded bliss and counting. The road to get here was brutal but I’m glad I held out for the right fit

I legitimately can't watch more than a minute at a time. I've never met the lady and never will, but Christ above.

Through the oof

@@sarabear8087 Favorite comment of the day

We Germans have a good word for that: fremdschämen

That's the funniest thing I've read all day, thanks bro

You need to fight more to spawn TED

It's just a huge monster in the shape of a microphone 🎙️😂

His names Ted Talk yet we’ve never even heard him

He’s only the DLC. Sorry bro

I think she intended the spawn thing as a joke. As other people have commented, this feels more like an attempt at standup comedy than a TED Talk.

It’s TEDx. Anyone can get a TEDx talk.

TEDx talks are independently-run, usually by universities. So if you work for, or have connections with, the university putting on the TEDx talk, you can basically do one without any other qualifications.

Spot on bruv!!!

I can’t believe people didn’t get up and leave during the middle

She sounds like me eight years ago when I cared about that sort of thing.

😂😂😂

It really is exactly that

Gaaah this comment is amazing.

The panting after every sentence like she's doing hundreds of squats while talking was a cherry on top.

you can practically smell the alcohol in her whining.

they do be having a good marriage doe

@@jdarrrr indeed. And I'm happy for them

It's so wholesome, he should be allowed to lmao

Weird flex, but okay. No joke though, if I have a marriage half as good as this I'll be happy.

The "never had to date as adults," took me out lmaooo. I hope they never do, it's wilin out here.

Lol seriously it comes off as just sad

Luckily you don’t have to imagine. Here she is 😂

That's exactly what a person that did a ted talk about being single would say

Not just about “being single” but about the Ted talk presenter being single, imagine if this was one of the lectures at university wow

I'm wanting a doctorate too. I don't know that I want to do a Ted talk, but I would like to create some research that I would share with people. I am also 38 and single. I can't think of anything more heartbreaking than being asked to do a talk about being single, rather than what I had spent a lot of my life working and studying in. And if they asked... no way. I am a rape survivor and a DV survivor, but even if I was asked to talk about that... there are other survivors that actually work and study in those areas. I think potentially this might be a very strange way that she is trying to find a partner, because I can't think of any other explanation for it. Unless maybe they paid her 2 million dollars to do this talk.

Also, thinking that "Having A PhD" is a personality trait

@@IloveGorgeousGeorge There’s no way she doesn’t name drop her college/say that she has a PhD every 5 minutes in a conversation xD

@@Instinct0425 uhhh 100%

Yep, big rip

@Dominic I mean, she did it in the video. Having a specific list of expectations for what you want out of somebody, treating them like a series of boxes to be checked rather than a human being. Instead of appreciating a person as the utterly unique creature they are, saying something like, "You're great and all and we really get along, but you're 5'5" and that's just too short for me/not pretty enough/etc." Chemistry between individuals is entirely organic. Trying to prescribe some rigid formula for what you want out of a partner will invariably meet with failure. If you've ever heard someone say something like "I don't like blondes", you've seen it in the real world. Her rules were pretty draconian - at least initially - but I've seen it everywhere in one form or another.

@Sheev Palpatine Never knew Palpatine was so sweet and polite behind the screen 😳

Laughing my fucking ass off off Is what you said

Lol

@@CSharpDCS buddy, do i know the PERFECT woman for you

Literally what was the point of her "TED Talk" if not to complain about her situation? She didn't even make a single mention about anything outside of her own situation. She didn't use her situation to teach something about social norms or statistics about people in her position or anything. She literally only told the world that she's habitually single and totally happy/pretty frustrated about that fact.

@@nicolestewart2843 wow I was just making an intentionally unfunny joke

Respect.

That’s actually really sweet

Short king nation

"Men want only one thing and it's disgusting."

@@ajoajoajoaj *feminazi moment*

Don't forget "tall". You wouldn't want a relationship with someone like that if they weren't taller than you, right? After all she's a self proclaimed "catch", she has a right to have standards!

But he might be a jerk, she's OK with that, because being nice to her is not important, being tall is

He could be a horrible jerk, but he better not have differing politcal beliefs.

@Nikola Stanković to be fair they are more interesting entities than your regular bloke across the street

BIBLICAL LENGTH LMAOOOOOO

*pulls out Johnson of biblical length*

@@AAllen-br8it oh no not the johnson

With "has a boat" on it lol

@@meganchambers8108 like he can't buy a boat later he has to have one *now* lmao

She did this instead of going to therapy lmao

she seems like an absolute pain to be around

She's not like other girls

oy vey

@@theelectricant98 oie bruv

@@theelectricant98 such chutzpah

Its like when ppl pay on their story that they're mad and not to talk to them and then get upset that nobody replied to their story

She's like the female counterpart of an incel with the words she uses lmao.

@@nemijs thats cuz she literally is.

It’s trying to be fun a quirky. The problem is it’s fine to say weird shit with friends but if you are doing it in a public speech it’s cringe.

I'd never date a guy that referred to women that way, so I can't imagine there are many guys that would want to date her. I mean listen to the way she talks about short fat guys. Just say "sucks the only guys interested aren't really my type". Don't get up on stage and shame them like you're too good for them

LMAOOO

🙎‍♂️

@Mekehl Mon You can be an extrovert and make peace with the fact that you're single and live a fulfilled life. Socialization outside a relationship is important anyway.

Tell me that when you're 60 and still single lol 🤣

@@DBrokeMillenial People are single at all different ages. Few relationships span your entire life. People in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s in relationships now, could very easily be 'still' (again) single in their 60s...

@@kp361 Yeah. Sure. But that wasn't really the point : you're just talking about the general case. The hypothetical case here isn't about being single at 60, but about having never had any relationship since birth to age 60.

Thank you Hayley wayley!

​@@IkesPimpHand You're welcome, though you've misspelled Snailey!

Yeah, I didn't get that whole "How dare you even try to talk to me when you're fat!?" bit. I mean did she ever even look in the mirror

@@dontrestyourhead lol I say that to every Hayley since American dad!

I'm a larger man, I (like most men) find a skinner person more attractive physically. But I am not going to close off thicker women because it would be hypocritical of me. if I am only going to only go for skinnier, fitter people I should be just as if not more fit.

right?? she’s blaming society, and saying it isn’t a big deal to be single while making a literal tedtalk announcing that she is single. she basically told everyone that her tedtalk doesn't matter

HA

4/5

Hey that’s still 80%!

She not hideous, but she's definitely not pretty. She's a 4 with makeup.

wait what's wrong with her legs?

I agree. I feel like she’s being a bit snobby yet desperate in her approach to guys. When she talks about herself she says she’s really great, but gave no interesting details about herself. So my impression of her is that she’s boring and unhappy.

I applaud you for this rare empathic yet based internet comment

@@mortenchristiansen9395 this reply gave me a good laugh. Thanks

@@lciav definitely seems to have all the wrong standards. Poor person.

IKR, she's so desperate. It's just plain cringe. And honestly to me, this is worse than HOTAPE. At least HOTAPE she seemed semi-confident, in a Dwight Shrute kind of way.

"men are intimidated by women smarter than them" I would bet money she's said that at least once

Its probably her own character trait^^

She's exude that not like other girls energy

She has the completely wrong mindset in general, it hurts my brain

She is leaning rather hard on the doctorate

yea idk. Like, if she was gonna do a ted talk on something like this, she could have at least like talked about dating or relationships IN GENERAL. But this was like completely just a personal rant about her life. She didnt even try to make it generalized or interesting.

she also failed to provide evidence as to why she was a catch (and honestly gave a lot of great evidence to the opposite).

this kind of thing only happens when you lack true self awareness. this woman is not very introspective

She probably gave herself less of a chance to find someone with how annoying she is here.

300IQ play by TED, they put her up there and informed the audience that they would be listening to a self-centered woman going off the rails. The lesson? don't be like her.

When I see something like "I have a Ph. D" as the first thing mentioned on a dating profile, that's a caution sign for me. This isn't a job interview after all. I like smart guys, it's one of the highest things on my priority list. My favorite ones to talk to though always turn out to be the ones that are secure enough not to feel the need to announce in advance how smart they are.

Maybe she thinks it'll attract others who have a PhD and really enjoy letting everyone know how smart they are all the time. I can imagine her and her ideal boyfriend being like, "No you're smart" "No *you're* smart!"

@Ryan D all I see is student debt, especially depending on what type of phd

How?

It also doesnt help that her PH. D is in history either. One of the least impressive fields to have a PH D in. I mean, it still takes quite a bit of work to get one, but you're really just a glorified trivia buff at the end of the day who knows how to write up a few papers in a proper format.

I think I’m that friend...

Are women incapable of giving their friends harsh truths? Id rather do that than allow a friend to be miserable and become insufferable to be around

Yeah and that's exactly what she hated to hear

Lol it's a cry for help

Lmaoo I mean

Because people give her advice she doesn't like when they talk about her being single.

Remember those people who define themselves by one bit of their personality in order to feel unique, push that piece onto everyone they can and then get offended when you don’t acknowledge a common human trait, like being gay or vegan, as the most incredible thing in the world so they feel justified? Yeah she doesn’t do that at all. PhD my ass

@@jamesrogers7049 Yo why do you got 2 first names man. That's messed up.

This lady is the type of women to show up at work on a Monday and respond “still single!” To the question “how was your weekend?”

“Don’t talk to me about me being single”- does an entire literal fucking Ted talk about her being single