Why Men Are ‘Rawdogging’ Flights

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All of those words have meanings that have nothing to do with sitting quietly on a flight in quiet meditation.

Sitting in solemn ponderance of my life and decisions to be made
"BAREBACKING LIFE LIKE A SWASHBUCKLING PIRATE WITH LOTS OF CHEST HAIR"

You: no bathroom breaks and staring at the ceiling of my flight like a true red-pilled warrior.

Me: steam deck and my entire library of pirated games and a bathroom break every hour.

Rawdogging fights means not wearing a mask in the barely ventilated space of the cabin. This article's concept for rawdogging makes no sense.

Keep the typo

This was a Seinfeld bit in the 90s.

Yeah I'm rawdogging flights:

High as fuck on valium, wishing the plane would stop shaking

"Rawdogging" is perhaps the worst synonym for "meditating through" that I can think of. I'm sure dudes who rock will come up with something worse soon enough though.

I’ve been flying too much recently and, while I bring my deck and have plenty of other distractions prepared, I usually just put my noise canceling headphones on and zone out. With all the stress of travel and life in general I’m rarely in the headspace to engage with anything while flying, it’s nice to just kinda dissociate for a few hours. I’ll need some kind of stimuli for anything more than like 5-6 hours though.

I could totally see rawdogging a relatively short flight, the hardest part for me would just be the noise. It’s a bizarre thing to be proud of though, like it’s some masculine feat to sit still in quiet for a few hours? I understand the modern world has conditioned us away from that but you can absolutely choose to do it whenever. The true alpha gigachad move I wish more of these guys would do is just walk off into the wilderness and never return

Yeah, I like to put headphones on and just listen to music and zone out for a few hours.

I had to abandon my cell phone in the airport in order to make a flight home a few months back and the two flights I took, totaling about 5 hours were absolutely miserable. The people doing this are psychos.

you had to abandon your cell phone? what?
- maybe it was a galaxy note 7
- I had lost my cell phone in the airport and was faced with either leaving it in the airport or missing my flight. I decided to leave it and make my flights. It was found that day and mailed back to me.

This actually doesn't seem too bad. In a way it's like a mini digital detox. I don't really see anything wrong with it. Kinda weird to see ppl here acting like it's "psycho" to try this. Humans haven't had any kind of tech for 99.99% of their history, so kinda of just being alone with your thoughts has been the norm and what we basically evolved with. What's actually "psycho" is thinking that constantly having something entertaining at your call and beckon is normal. To anyone that thinks otherwise, take a deep breath, step back, and really look inward and do some self-crit.

It's only because it seems to be associated with red-pill stuff that ppl here seem to be so annoyed with it. If it was a marxist that advocated this, would ppl really be so upset? I could easily see Breht from Rev Left advocating for something like this. Honestly this just seems like "bad guy does stuff, so I don't like" shit. Once again, the western left is basically just "vibes" and "feels" in a weirdly idealist way.

The weird part to me isn’t the digital detox, it’s doing it on a plane. If you went for a walk in the woods and left your phone at home I totally understand. Sitting out in a hammock with just your thoughts, sure. But a flight? With that constant roaring sound plus the noise of 200 people? Miss me with that.
- With that constant roaring sound plus the noise of 200 people?
  On the plane sound is really audible. From my experience most ppl on airplanes are pretty quiet.
- Well, if you’re forced to be there, make the most of it? Actually you’re right, I would way rather try to deal with everything while stuck on a plane and then have some free time to be in the woods, but executive disfunction, so…
- I like it actually
- Right wingers always make something maybe a little medicinal and good into something a little bit extra weird that a marxist or any normal person would just never think of.
I don't want to be left alone with my thoughts because I've got shitty/disturbing/problematic thoughts
- All the more need for meditation.
I don't think it's "psycho", but I only heard about it from dudes I come off as kind of chuddish flexing about it on social media.
digital detox
They aren't even staying away from electronics though! They're still staring at a screen, just a relatively boring one with flight info on it.
"this is how we've always lived so it's good" 1) specious reasoning 2) false premise, the airplane is the very symbol of modernity. as an experience, flying economy on a commercial airline bears the most resemblance to a voyage at sea, which was far from a common experience for most people and also the most surefire way we had to drive someone absolutely insane. 3) books
- "this is how we've always lived so it's good"
  Uh I didn't say that.
I think its only because many/most people see flights as stressful unpleasant environments, not conducive to meditation or quiet relaxation. I don't think its a sign of masculine strength or whatever to sit through a shitty flight with no distractions, but its not "psycho" either, I'm sure it works for some people. Shit sometimes I've done it accidentally, it's the bragging about it and telling everyone about how many jealous DMs you get that is really stupid.

“I don't think men have the same ‘treat culture’ that women do, which is frankly a shame,”

points vaguely at video games, cars/motorcycles, sports memorabilia, alcohol, and other assorted hobbies that require purchases to enjoy

What is it about journalism that if you pursue it you only get a job given you're the most insuferable person on earth?

People basically have to be nepobabies to get a job in journalism to begin with, and then they either need familial wealth to survive on the shit wages and instability or they need to become SEO grifters churning out huge volumes of vapid slop. Those material conditions strongly bias them towards being insufferable in one way or another, whether that's the out of touch upper/upper middle class failson coming through or the grifter grindset mentality consuming them.

I did this by accident when I was 15. 9 hour flight. Solo. Films didn't download on my phone. Very cheap airline.

I got thirsty, they said they only take cash. I didn't have any cash. So they said I can only have a cup of boiling water.

Fun times.

I got thirsty, they said they only take cash. I didn't have any cash. So they said I can only have a cup of boiling water.

I've taken a couple dogshit flights (redeye across the US in a tiny regional jet, in a little seat I didn't fit in, with no headrest on a budget airline) but zero water is way over the line. Even the aforementioned one, probably my worst, they gave me a tiny little cup of water once or twice
- It was insane. I only got the boiling water because I demanded that it was my legal right. Total fuckers.
wtf did they also make you drink the boiling water by catching it in your open mouth as they tossed it in your face?

We used to lay on grass hills and stare at the clouds, now I die if I have to be alone with my thoughts for an hour

Retvrn to
This accurately sums up my experiences with dysphoria before I started HRT.
- I'm pretty sure it's just because I blast my brains with instant gratification from my phone all day. I didn't have internet for a week and felt much better.
  Isn't dysphoria body-based?

#WeFuckPlanes #anthroplane #airsona #widebody

flying is fundamentally unpleasant, everyone's unhinged about and onboard an aircraft. we weren't meant to be on those devil machines, at least not in the concentrations and conditions that make them economical (and frankly i have a hard time imagining a private jet is much quieter).

...we weren't meant to be on those devil machines...
That's why flying is fun. When that first big bank after takeoff starts and you can hear the wings and airframe beating the fuck out of gravity while trying to rip the wingbox away from each other. That is the only truly great part of flying.
- spit in gods eye all you like i'll enjoy pleasant wheel&track-based conveyance thank you very much
I don't think (for most people) the noise is the bad part, but luxury planes absolutely have more sound insulation than airliners
But yeah flying is dogshit lol. Train wins any day of the week, unless mayyyybe if its multiple overnights in coach

no one's doing this stop it

when Ron DeSantis stared at the seatback in front of him for the entire duration of an 11(?) hour flight to "Israel", we all called him out as an inhuman monster with no internal monologue. now it's being normalized? like I understand if you want to dissociate but at least do it the old fashioned way with drugs and alcohol!

reminds me of stuff i do because of/to cope with social anxiety/neurodivergent issues

I have never cooked a dog on a plane. I don't think it's anything to be proud of. It really doesn't even come up.

Something something, politics, sexual pathology, and scho on.

What's up with men and their fetish with absolutely annihilating their brains

This is a weird thing to identify as a trend lol, basically what I've been doing my whole life. Flight is just a good time to stare into nothingness and think about what you have done

I always fly with protection, you just don't know where that plane has been. Might even be a 737, yeck.

Right in the tailpipe

If planes have those

inventing Buddhist meditation practices from first principles

This is absolutely freak shit. Dudes may rock, but not these ones.

Just sleep and you have shitty jetlagged teleportation.

David Puddy did it first.

Can't find the source, but there was a post about
sitting on a cross country flight completely motionless, not doing anything to occupy his mind
- Iirc, it wasn't cross country but an international flight to Tel Aviv
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I did this once cuz I had to take a flight last minute and didn't have time to set up any entertainment.

Sometimes my husband will just sit on the couch and stare at the wall for like 30 mins

The view is better out front

But no one simply sits, staring silently at the real-time flight map on the screen in front of them, for the entirety of a trip. Right?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm on the spectrum, I've been doing exactly this.

I'm rawdogging life

I don't care. I travel listening to a lot music. I sleep while I zone out. I just read some book either on my phone or if I carry one. Also I have never got a flight and just talking about trains.

I hate that some dumb non issue is made out to be this ground breaking epidemic.

the gender that brought you frat hazing and Logan Paul.

Tf did I do to contribute to these two things.