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Trigger warnings: toxic dating experiences, power dynamics, rude behavior, and secondhand embarrassment.

Episode 24 of Traumatically Speaking, First Dates From Hell Part 3, is proof that being hot is not a personality trait.

Sloan shares the story of a date with a firefighter who had the confidence of a mediocre man and the audacity to match. What started as a first date quickly became a power struggle as Firefighter Barbie tried to tell Sloan what to order, pressured her into eating coffee cake, and implied that being polyamorous made her some kind of dating menace to society. The only problem? She was trying to establish dominance over the most dominant woman in the room, and that was never going to end well.

Lex follows with a first date as a teenager with a boy who couldn't keep his tongue in his own mouth. Then they wrap up with a First Dates From Hell submission from a Chaos Cousin that features hot cheese, public humiliation, and a woman with the confidence level of an average cis straight white man. The combination is exactly as chaotic as it sounds.

With their usual mix of dark humor and honesty, Sloan and Lex unpack the dating experiences that leave you staring at the ceiling at 2 a.m. wondering how someone managed to be both attractive and completely unbearable at the same time.

The red flags were waving. The cheese was flying. We all learned our lesson.

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Sloan & Lex