This world is cruel…

What do you mean Linux is not in the list?

"Top 15 hobbies that sound attractive to women"

Uh, there is a typo, the second probably should say "functional languages". We all know how people are attracted to map, filter, and reduce.

can some one explain this meme to me?

I can't find Saddam Huisen

"traveling" yikes.

That is one way to say, you think wealth is attractive.

I have traveled quite a bit and I like it a lot, but it is no hobby. For it to be a hobby, I would have to have a lot more money.

Once or even twice a year, is hardly a hobby.

Woodworking 94%. Right.

Try ordering a new lathe after you’re married.

Where is RuneScape

I beg to argue that being able to 3d model the figures and printing your own original creations is far more attractive than downloading a file aomeone else made and printing that.

Release the full list.

I want to see the red flag hobbies

Got reading and foreign languages, woohoo!

most attractive for women

*groans* So much for my gay ass...

Blacksmithing is 88% Was this list made by a metal shop kid?

"Oh babe, I love your soda lime mix. You're not like those other brittle iron bitches out there"

I had 10/15 of these when I was single, and I was single for a very long time. That is how I had the time to learn all these hobbies/skills.

"Women love when i show them my extruder nozzle"

More like "things women want attractive people to be into"

Judging by what I see on dating sites, fishing is near the bottom of the list. So many women's profiles say something like "I don't want to see a picture of you holding a fish"

What if you find yourself reading a culinary arts textbook in a foreign language?

Does growing cannabis count as gardening and what about painting figures?

Ahh yes... my favorite hobby... foreign languages.

Essentially just be a renaissance man. It's much easier to do when you're younger. I could've ticked off over half the list 10 years ago, but now it's just reading, cooking and writing. I don't have the time or energy for much outside of work these days.

TIL I'm a chick magnet

I read, write, and cook, and can play several instruments (kazoo, mouth harp, washboard, tamborine,...). Where's the women that find me attractive?

Weird, "nerd for Marxism" isn't on there... good thing I can cook 😎

Getting high and playing video games?

I'm a 4 and 7 with a touch of 1, so I guess I'm a hot commodity.

....my dating history tells me otherwise.

I’m not into guys but as a woman I’m surprised blacksmithing isn’t higher. How am I supposed to be your knight in shining armor if you can’t make me some shining armor?

I do photography, archery and 3d printing.

Photography seems to only invite critique, archery tends to be a short subkect of conversation but 3d printing usually leads to the most questions and takes up a larger part of the conversation.

When i played bass, no one really showed any interest other than one friends who caught me playing a small part of something i was figuring out how to follow it up and wanted to sample it. Which eventually led to nothing.

I designed a silencer for airsoft in fusion360 and already sold 10, a friend asked me to print a spitfire and i eventually summoned up the idea to make some spitfire exhausts he could mount on his spitfire themed mini cooper, my archery club has these plastic stars that tend to be used on the carnival for air guns so i designed some custom ones with their logo "just because". I also printed some trophy's which i still have to give out.

Once you get a reliable 3d printer and learn the software well enough, it is an amazing hobby.

The wife paints miniatures (think warhammer for example) and she needs plinths for her competition models. So i shit out a custom plinth within an hour including print time. It's so awesome and after 5 years i'm still amazed when i get to hold something that was nothing more than a digital design a mere hour before, i have a mini factory inside my house that only produces what i tell it to...it's absolutely insane.

Tl;dr: any interest is interesting and attractive. In particular if it can be done without annoying your partner and shows your ability to think independently. If it produces something useful that's cool, too.

When does cooking stop counting as a basic day to day survival thing and start counting as a hobby?

Here is the source so you can feel bad about yourself

https://datepsychology.com/the-most-and-least-attractive-male-hobbies/

So axe throwing is a good date idea! Got it

I love how some of those hobbies are literally just chores but fun

Do audiobooks count as reading?

Archery. Archery? Whose hobby is that?

I wonder where "gay sex" ranks

https://datepsychology.com/the-most-and-least-attractive-male-hobbies/

The musical instrument thing is transitory and depends entirely on the instrument.

Pre-relationship; in a popular band playing a more traditional instrument like guitar with a bunch of also attractive people (or at least part of a cool local scene) = hot

In a relationship and/or solo bedroom producing any kind of electronic music and/or buying lots of synthesizers, drum machines or grooveboxes = not hot

Also note how low "clubbing" is on the least attractive list, so no, DJs and electronic musicians who perform live don't get a pass

"Reading"

Strangely enough, reading RPG and skirmish game rulebooks doesn't seem to fit that bill.

Also, 3D printers, get your painting skills ready and paint the stuff you print. Easy peasy lemon squeezy

Unironically, most of the women I've spoken too have found it attractive when I bring up 3dPrinting. It's an active and interesting hobby, and tangible & crafty enough not to be too "nerdy" or whatever. Perfect middle ground, women love it.

They probably just didn't think of it or it wasn't on the poll.

I want to see the list of attractive hobbies of gay men that gay men like. I bet it's like: Rugby, going to the gym, video games, 3d printing, sashaying, cooking

Read this too fast and thought it said most attractive male Hobbits and I was really intrigued

Sad beans

It's weird that mechanical keyboard isn't on the list

Is there a source for this graph? Would like to read the rest of it

So, lots of Linux fans should be fairly attractive. Like we read (the docs), know a few languages (at least bash), occasionally write scripts, travel (between distros), and archers became a huge meme 🙃

Cooking is my love language. I'm also a sole provider.

I think this is cool. Many of these are accessible and cheap. Most of these are "do you get out of the house and spend time on something" which is obvious. Looks like most hobbies are attractive, like even anime and cosplay have 1 out of 4 women who is into that and finds it attractive.

I also love the huge correlation between the top 15 and what men think is the top 15, the main difference is that men didn't think hobbies were attractive enough.

I'd love to see the reversed list for what men think are attractive hobbies for a woman!

No one should undertake hobbies because they are attractive to someone else. Unless you want to join groups where you can meet people you’re attracted to, then the activity is just an excuse to mingle. But you are more likely to find a hobby rewarding if you are genuinely interested in it, no matter what others think.

I assume that by painting they don't mean miniature painting. Unless it's Henry Cavill that does it?

If anyone wants to learn to blacksmith Black bear forge has a good intro series https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHta7NIJ9npbTNOR4JQW_IlDnCTxM2wV4

And lemmy has a blacksmithing community that could use more posts

!blacksmithing@lemmy.world

My bf is really hot when he prints stuff for me tho.

what if I read a ton of books every day but it’s all manga and light novels. trashy ones

where's golfing?

DMing for D&D isn’t here? Damn it.

What about my practicing the Art of the Blade™?

I used to work at a leather shop. I can say alot of women find that pretty attractive. Too bad I'm asexual.

That's because I hog all the printing time.

Also, psa 4 men, if you just do cooking you'll be swimming.

I've read manual for my new 3D printer but it was in a foreign language so I had to cook up a way to understand it, luckily I travel a lot so learning languages is not that difficult for me. I hope that this writing paints good enough of a picture on how it went. I forged up some way to accelerate my learning process so that I could get trough it swift like an arrow. There certainly were some steep inclines which I had to overcome but in the end it all went swimmingly. The only issue was that I could not muster any courage to approach my crush. I just stood there like a stump and stared at her eyes that glistened like stars. In the end it turned out she was a hoe so I dodged a bullet.

3D printing is not, but astronomy is? Is that even a hobby?

1,2,4,6,7,8,10,12,15 I'd say of any of them that cooking is the one that I think really makes a difference.

Also fails to mention mastery of nunchucks?

Lmfao

Let's see: I love reading, I am learning French, I paint, I write, I enjoy a bit o astronomy, I am an archer, and I have learned how to blacksmith.

Yeah this is just a list of activities with no correlation to attractiveness whatsoever

Edit: let me be clear, I've learned to blacksmith the cheating way with propane or natural gas AND the good old fashioned hand cranked coal fired away meant to coat your lungs with soot like a real man. And make sure you bring the borax cause we gonna do some welds

3D printing is just a tooI? blacksmithing? 3D print a 'lost-wax' plastic mould. Gardening? making some custom very specific mounts or drip ends.

You don't put on a hobby list 'wielding a brush'. It's what you do with it;

I really want to understand what's the big deal about foreign languages. If both speak the same second language, then maybe having a few conversations in it might be fun, but if you don't what is exciting about someone that can say things you don't understand?

Anyone have the least attractive? I want to check something.

So a foreign manga reader that likes to work their wood whilst drawing furry pics from said manga, and travels to cons to display subsequent art - is the most irresistible person to women?
(Should probably think about doing some public garden porn photography tbh)

That does make sense.

I used to be a heartthrob like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

And now I’m 89.5% sexier!

They probably just didn't ask about RTLSDR, otherwise it would be quite prominent, I'm sure.

All the nerd hobbies are at the bottom of the list scoring negatives. Linux, video games, Warhammer, D&D and other, etc. this is why despite playing a music instrument, I couldn't get laid.

But I only got into woodworking after I met my husband!

Any women here who can give insight on why woodworking is attractive? I thought my hands would be too grimy with sharpening grit, everything covered in chips and shavings and my hands covered in scars for it to be considered attractive.

Also do you find power tools or hand tools more attractive?

Where’s “beach”?

Idiomas? やった！我不是失败者！

Expect /r/3dprintingincels (general place for incels that do 3D printing) and /r/dark3dprinting (3D printing nazi memoribalia) going live.

It's a shame being attractive is the most important thing about being attractive lol

I'm into cooking, astronomy, photography (astrophotography), and hiking. Used online dating (listed all those things) for almost 10 years and went on something like 7 dates. Still single lol I just gave up about a year ago

I can confirm that after a thousand times of don't it, cooking is no longer getting me any

I do so well with reading and cooking but really let myself down with strangling small animals.

My girlfriend loves the little trinkets and doodads I run off for her. I gave her a little tree that holds her jewelry and she got all moony and immediately asked for a couple more. She also loves watching the machine run, almost as much as I do. n=1 but some girls find 3d printing incredibly romantic.