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Originally Posted by wittynickname
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."
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I find this language as offensive, if not more so, than some of the crap being spewed in here by the Brahs. We need to ban the phraseology "not every guy is like this", it makes it sound like non-violent, non-rapist guys are some diamond in the rough you come across after walking between the raindrops and somehow, unbelievably, avoiding the many others who will assault you if they find out they don't happen to be your cup of tea.
And while I generally don't like this rhetorical device, just try re-imagining your viewpoint in terms of "not all gays are like this", or "not all jews are like this", and regardless of the trait you've selected imagine how it makes people who are members of those groups feel. Hint: the answer is not "special".
To put it another way: if you see a guy approach you at the bar, and think, "That other guy killed women for rejecting them, I'm going to draw a parallel here",
#### you. This is no different than seeing a black guy walking down the sidewalk toward you and immediately crossing the street.
If a news story about a guy going on a shooting rampage for the insane reason that he was rejected by women makes you hesitant to engage in social interaction, you'd better get a nice strong lock and stay in your home, because that's not the only risk out there in the world, and it's one of the more remote ones.
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Originally Posted by strombad
This is how I imagined EE galloping into this thread when he heard from afar that a bunch of boys were infringing on real men's rights to be misogynistic.
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I was more thinking
Breezys be dying to give you their number once they see you riding around on a bearsharktopus.