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A Psychologist Explains The ‘NATO Dating’ Trend (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

According to Tinder’s 2023 Year In Swipe report, a new dating trend has emerged that redefines traditional dating norms. “Not Attached To an Outcome,” or “NATO” dating, is an approach where individuals focus on enjoying the present moment and the process of getting to know a potential partner without placing excessive pressure on the future trajectory of a relationship.

Wow almost like Gen Z are in their 20s. Why do we have to come up with new "phenomena" and names for utterly banal stuff.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a reason why they stretched the nomenclature of this phenomenon to call it something pertinent to NATO? It seems incredibly weird. Like they are desperate to link something normal and banal to a genocidal international military alliance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's because zoomers flirt using the NATO phonetic alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found a dictionary of this newfangled NATO slag the kids are using: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiservice_tactical_brevity_code

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's called the NATO dating trend because it maps to the military strategy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Maybe we can do some nation building and get a new highly functional vassal state like postwar Germany or Japan, maybe we just fuck shit up and set everything on fire for a couple decades, let's just enjoy the present moment and the process of getting to bomb brown people without placing excessive pressure on the future trajectory of our imperialism"

Yeah, this tracks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

we used to just call that NSA dating