So, enlighten us, MRAs: How are women supposed to know which of you fucks will pull this on them or not?

Yeah no. As a hispanic girl that is no where near white or pale, and I have parents that have thick accents. No you have not faced the condescending, degrading and discriminatory effects first hand. I appreciate you feeling hurt by their comments but they are infinitely worse when they are actually aimed at you and…

Your claim that you’ve received more blatant racism than people with actually darker skin is insulting and untrue.

How do you know if someone is an Android user?

Not having seen or read any of this series, just offering a theory... Maybe Katniss cares about something other than looks? Maybe it's about personality, or just a feeling of love?

Just like Apple Pay was Google Wallet two years later, except, you know... better, and actually gets used and supported.

Go eat a bag of dicks, you moron.

It makes no mention of the psychological effects of telling people cheap wine is expensive wine which is what I was referring to.

Author also didn’t touch on the fact that people rated cheap wine much higher when it was thought to be expensive wine. Which from my recollection was the central argument.

Well for one the cheap wine people didn’t just write a goddamn novella telling you how wrong you are.

Yes, this was as long as I would expect a complaint to go for a wine snob.

This is the longest “WAHHHHHHHHHH” I’ve ever read.

I think that you probably just did more to reinforce why people think 'snobby' wine people are insufferable, than you did to refute it.

Counterpoint: Drink whatever wine you like, don’t listen to people on the Internet.

I’ve said this elsewhere but the reason women tend not to do this 1) society asks us to take care of men’s feelings and 2) Some do not respond well to a straight up ‘no thanks’, and the consequences for misjudging can be very harsh indeed.

Oh if only it were that easy. The problem is that “I’m not interested,” regardless of how nicely it’s said pisses some men off. Then they turn crazy. And by crazy I mean they send you angry, threatening emails for months, creating new profiles, or finding you on LinkedIn, Facebook, or other dating websites to harass…

Interest signals are subjective and there are a lot of people that misread being friendly, talkative, or doing an activity like sharing a meal, as genuine romantic interest. I’ve found that it’s usually shyer people with limited social interactions/experience that fall into this emotional trap. (I very much used to be…

Actually, women are trained not to be direct because 1) society expects us always to cater to men’s feelings and 2) every woman on the planet has an experience of a man reacting badly (and scarily) when she has had to tell him no on something or other. ‘Sentimental and artistic’ has nothing to do with it.

This entire thread got real gross. These men are encouraging each other NOT TO LISTEN TO A WOMAN and STALK HER and MAKE HER FEEL UNSAFE in the service of MAYBE IT MIGHT HAPPEN.

@Indru, if a woman —adult humans are called “women”, btw, not “girls” — tells you she has a boyfriend, it means she considers her relationship exclusive with him. It’s not up to you to second-guess that relationship.