Unattractive Hobbies

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There's this fake survey image that's been going around about the least attractive hobbies for men to have.

Are videogames are a red flag?
Preferable to taxidermy?

For me, gambling the worst one, as it's not a real hobby— it's something that can ruin your life.

What about grown women? Asking for a bunch of women in tech/gaming industry.

Luckily there are women who game who like men who game too and we take each other out of the dating pool.

Oh I love a quiet evening in with some online trolling and a glass of wine as a couple

(Check again, it's listed as a 'hobby' here)😂

That was my fave on the list. It's fun and innocuous and probably not something that eats up every weekend.

Video games is a massive no for me. Very grateful to have a husband who doesn’t play them.

I don't think it was a real survey, the numbers are all too neat anyway. I think whoever made it had some point to make against videogames.

Dunno why bird watching made the list, I didn't think it was repugnant... though at least one person in this thread has mentioned it as a turnoff!

Honestly think this is the evening plans for some mumsnetters!

Rather a gamer than a football fan/pub goer any day of the week.

Ohhh mine would be
Massage (erotic only when asked)
Moderate cleaning
Cooking healthy but tasty food daily
Conversational politics
Booking holidays
Gig and concert going
Sleeping weekly on the sofa hobby that means I get the whole bed to myself.

Oof, I play video games guess I'm just a woman child who needs to grow up
I collect bones too, and figures and I collect comic books and manga. Good job I met a man child to be a woman child with

A lot of these are closely associated with obsession to the exclusion of interest in other things (or people) and rigidity around doing them, which I think can be really unattractive.

I would be happy with any except the online trolling if it wasn't obsessive.

I’m surprised fishing and watching football are not on the list. I really like model trains.

I think "videogames" is a bit broad. Are they exchanging slurs with 12 year olds on the telly and spaffing loads on loot boxes and costumes? Or is it something they have a handle on?

It's like "reading". I like reading novels and discussing them too, but there are some kinds of reading material that would be a turnoff.

Online trolling (Kyle’s Dad) and gambling are clearly worse than gaming but I’d say any hobby that men use solely as an excuse to avoid looking after their own kids on weekends/evenings to be unattractive regardless of what it is.

Taxidermy 😂😂😂 no thanks

Gambling and online trolling are not hobbies fgs.

But birdwatching is fab. More people should do it.

Who are these people? I must live in an alternative universe. Or be very lucky. Never had a partner obsessed with any hobby, all just general run of the mill like watching football, bands, odd game of (bad) golf.

I saw a post on Instagram taken from a Hinge prompt:
'Would you rather date a man who occasionally did crystal meth or was heavily into crystals?'
Had to think about that one for a while...!

Any obsessive hobby is a pain. My adult ds games obsessively and I can't understand how his gf is ok with it.

Gambling and Online Trolling stand out as stuff that’s more sinister. How the latter is a hobby I’m not sure, unless what they mean is being interested a celebrity and their career - but that’s not really trolling

Also if women do it it’s the same?

Online trolling is a hobby? As in something you’d put on your CV? It’s a pernicious activity.

When the fuck did online trolling become a hobby?

I think they might be thinking of Howard in Big Bang

I can’t believe LARPing didn’t make the list 😂

Gaming yep massive turn off. So is watching the football or playing golf.