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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
That's pretty convenient that you can make that "there is nothing wrong with.." decision for other people.
I'm also sure that you are well accommodating to telemarketers, aggressive salespeople, and religious people knocking on your door or harassing you on the street. You can just say no and walk away.
Unless of course you find that kind of thing annoying and uncomfortable. But I'm sure you don't. Unwelcome interactions with people trying to sell you something or "closing the sale", in your words, are something you not only look forward to, but are flattered by. You are the one guy who isn't bothered by these things!
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Is it really that hard to grasp that women might be a little bit touchy about a man overlooking our discomfort at being aggressively pursued a week after some nutjob murdered six people with his main reasoning being that women rejected him?
And in that same week at least two other men (unsuccessfully, thank god) shot at women who rejected them? A mass shooting happened at a gym less than five miles from where I'm sitting because some guy was upset because women rejected him.
Women give fake numbers not because they want to screw with a guy's head, but because they're afraid of the reaction if they actively reject him to his face.
No, not every man is likely to do this, but it still happens often enough that we are justified in being fearful of some Real Man insisting that we need to give him our number. In the last week we've learned that something as simple as not going out of our way to throw ourselves at a man can make him so angry he goes on a shooting rampage. It can--and has--happened all over the place, and especially the US. So as an American woman who is most certainly a feminist, it's kind of exasperating to have my very justified fears and concerns written off as "trolling."
If you aren't the one facing it, you don't get to decide whether or not it's okay to be offended.
Edit: Just to clarify, I'm expounding on your point, not arguing against it.