Did she even get skinny shamed? The quote said she imagined what the lady in the waiting room was thinking, if she didn't actually say anything this might be a classic case of projection.

There are concerns about gaining too much or too little, on certain people. Are you equally interested in these two kinds of risk?

Omg cargo pants.

There's a lot going on in this story. Rape culture. Male entitlement. The horrifying fact that people are carrying guns around for no damn reason.

Yes, and then she had to suffer for the "crimes" of all the women before her that rejected his advances. If pretty women would just fuck anyone who ever told them to, no one would be murdered right?!

I'm also excepting to see a comment from a man asking how he can pick up women in bars in a non-creepy way. Because as we all know, nothing is more important than a man getting a date/getting laid.

Urgh. Me too, now. Who wants to bet, right now, on the approaches to character assassination of the dead woman that emerge if he ever does come to trial? minor criminal record/"She said yes til her boyfriend showed up"/"she was drunk"/"she looked like she might be a sex worker/had once been a sex worker/knew someone…

"Why do women string men along and make men think they're interested instead of giving us an honest answer?"

The fact that we published this on the same night as the "No Means Yes" frat sign bullshit is sort of haunting me right now.

It just made it that tiny bit more depressing and exasperating to me. She rejected him with patriarchy-acceptable ego-saving language and he still killed her for it.

#yesallwomen

"Why don't women just tell us when they're not interested????" -Reddit

Don't worry, though, there's no such thing as rape culture, and women should feel totally flattered and not at all threatened when men hit on them.

What a tragic thing to have happened. I hope her family can mourn and find peace.

#yesallwomen

I guess it just rubs me the wrong way when I hear it only applied to men.

It's probably because people (parents, teachers, whatever) lie to you your whole life and tell you being a nice, interesting person is enough.

I think younger guys tend to have a totally warped idea of how female attraction works. They've drunk the proverbial Kool-aid, buying into some media-created versions of women who will date you no matter how fat/awkward/slobby/underemployed you are, as long as you're, you know, a "nice guy".

Sanjay and Craig is a really good example, which funnily enough is written in part by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi from Pete & Pete. That show is awkward because there's actually no reason for that character to be Indian.