This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
Whenever I see things like this I think the man making the comment really has no idea how much unwanted attention young, single women get from random men. Especially if you're pretty and nice, men just take that as an invitation. For every genuinely polite person trying to be charming you have dozens of creeps just being weird.
As Chris Rock put it many years ago, "Everywhere they go, there's men offering them dick."
I feel like a lot of the online discourse, and a few isolated in-person interactions, wants to frame this sort of stuff as evidenciary of how miserable and oppressive it is to be men in the modern world.
I don't believe it; frankly, I think it's a ploy to instill division by exploiting young men's lack of emotional intelligence (not necessarily their fault) but even if it were true, I don't buy the response being that society has it out to get men and we need to accommodate people who refuse to learn how deal with their own emotions.
All it takes is hearing stories or knowing someone personally who just gets flooded with creeps and you realize this isn't an overreaction. One of my not super close friends changed their name on Facebook because of weirdos trying to do """"light"""" stalking constantly. It seems super weird and antisocial of women until you get the full story.
We can help men, I'm all for it.
But I need a good faith effort.
Women first, and then we help the men if they still want or need help and it isn't just like "wahhh we've lost our unfair systemic advantages".
I'd be willing to be that because modern feminism ACTUALLY encompasses actual men's rights and is basically all egalitarian values, that they will (continue to) never take that offer since that isn't what the VAST majority even want.
Prove me wrong.
Christ, you suck.
What part do you disagree with?
what's the problem buddy? scared of an inclusive politics that advocates for equality for all?