• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    This almost gets it. Complements should be about choices.

    Instead of saying, “you’re so pretty.” Try, “that color really brings out your sparkle.”

    “You’re hair looks so amazing today, did you try a new product?” Not “You have pretty hair.”

    By complimenting the decision you have given ownership of the praise to the decision maker and not whatever gods you think made us. My hair is pretty because i painfully take care of it. Not because I’m blessed. Complement a persons decisions rather than station.

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      8 hours ago

      I love complimenting people, man or woman. However, as you said, I like to compliment something that took effort or at least commitment, not luck. It costs nothing and often nets happiness.

      I’ve mentioned this on lemmy before, but one of my favorite memories is complimenting a random guy’s jacket in the waiting area at an Outback Steakhouse. The jacket was loud, but pretty cool. I said I liked it; he grinned, thanked me and clapped me on my shoulder. The person I presume was his girlfriend or wife rolled her eyes, but smiled.

      That’s all the context I have, but I assume she had teased him for it and he had defended it. Whatever the actual circumstances were, everyone walked away smiling.

  • Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    There are two ways to interpret this comic:

    • men are incapable of giving complements for anything but looks.

    • her looks are the only thing worth praising

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    18 hours ago

    “Give me a complement that isn’t about my looks”

    “Well, you gotta be pretty to receive those”

    “Bang! bang! bang!”

    the hostage walk away…

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      15 hours ago

      Careful. Last time there was a comic about complimenting men it got deleted because uh… Ah yes. Too wholesome.