Single directional innocent whore complex

A person who is always trying to look and act in a sexually attractive to someone, but never realizes when the other person is playing along.

Girl 1: Ugh! He clearly wants to have sex with me, but never takes my hints

Girl 2: He clearly has Single directional innocent whore complex !

by Valentinowry February 19, 2022

single together

the idea of being in a serious relationship stirs feelings of mild anxiety for a lot of people, so some people while not being in a serious relationship, but are in love with someone, call themselves being “single together”.

Person 1 (while referring to person 2 and themselves) : hey we are single, hit us up ;)
Person 3 : y’all- they are single together, iykyk

by bc i dont lie February 24, 2022

Single Syndrome

An unreasonable philosophy usually developed through puberty in adolescent males, that one may never be truly happy with their lives without a significant other.

This tends to manifest faster and more severely in those who have been rejected by a romantic interest a significant amount of times, and those who find themselves isolated in an environment where “everyone else” seems to have a partner.

This syndrome hammers in the absolute “need” for an s/o, so much that the subject finds it even more difficult to, ahem, *obtain* one, due to its side effects of obsessive behavioral patterns.

Usually the subject may grow out of this philosophy and focus on bettering themselves rather than just getting a date with someone. But if it doesn’t, usually because of the neglect of a friend or family member to address it, this syndrome germinates into a sense of entitlement to an s/o, morphing the subject into a Nice Guy.

A: Life sucks, man. If only I had a girlfriend.
B: Dude, stop acting like you need one.
A: But I do!
B: No you don’t, man. Seems like you’ve got a bad case of Single Syndrome

by izzthekid February 27, 2022

THATS WHY YOUR SINGLE

A saying used by someone who is offended by someones foolish actions and believe that due to their dumbness they are single.

ALEX: HAHA DARREN I TOOK YOUR PARKING SPOT OF 17 YEARS EVEN THOUGH THEIRS PLENTY OF OTHER SPOTS.
DARREN: THATS WHY YOUR SINGLE

by CHIPSANDSAUCE January 13, 2026

Single Blind Spot Bias

A metaphor for a researcher's (or field's) one major, unconscious area of ignorance that systematically skews how they design experiments and interpret data. It's the one big thing they cannot see about their own assumptions—often their cultural, gendered, or economic viewpoint—which acts as a hidden lens distorting everything.

*Example: A 20th-century psychology field dominated by wealthy Western men designing studies on "human" motivation using only male undergraduates as subjects. Their single blind spot bias—assuming their experience was universal—led them to pathologize women and non-Westerners for differing.*

by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026

Single-Blind Bias

Not just the flaw in a single-blind study, but the broader cultural bias that assumes a problem is solved once the subject's bias is controlled for. It ignores how the researcher's unchecked expectations, culture, and design choices still massively shape outcomes, creating an illusion of objectivity that is really just hidden subjectivity.

Example: A pharmaceutical company runs a study where patients don't know if they get the drug or placebo (single-blind), but the doctors hoping for a blockbuster drug do. Their unconscious encouragement of the treatment group skews results. The single-blind bias is the false confidence that blinding the subject alone guarantees neutrality.

by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026

Single-Anomaly Veto

The tactic of using a single exception to veto an entire generalization, no matter how well-supported. Single-anomaly veto is what happens when one counterexample—real or imagined—is used to dismiss mountains of evidence. It's the logic of "some smokers live to 100, so smoking doesn't cause cancer," of "one study found no effect, so all the other studies are wrong." The single-anomaly veto is beloved of denialists, who can always find an exception and use it to veto the rule. The cure is recognizing that generalizations are about patterns, not absolutes; exceptions prove the rule only in the sense of testing it, not disproving it.

Single-Anomaly Veto Example: "She presented decades of research showing climate change. He responded with the single-anomaly veto: 'But it snowed last week! So much for global warming.' One snowstorm, one exception, used to veto the entire climate record. The fallacy was breathtaking in its audacity, and also completely effective with those who wanted to believe it."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 17, 2026