We should have mandatory money-management courses in high schools.

In a world where this is the message being sent to gay males:

i'm sure you've put a lot of effort into this. but to me, it doesn't matter how involved the process to mat your hair is, it's still matted together. the interior cannot really be that clean, although i'm sure you're otherwise fastidiously tidy.

at any rate, have whatever hair you want, unless you want to join the…

im sure it makes you feel superextranotracist to say you like dreads. they're sick.

um, dreadlocks are LITERALLY just matted hair. that's what they are. and they are revolting on any human

that is also stupid.

maybe (brace yourself for this one) it's not photoshopped

Yeah women seem not to like taking compliments from each other either. I give you, my favorite amy schumer sketch of all time:

it is your right to be a rude cunt. feel free to go about your business. do you work at the DMV?

if someone is howling out the car window at you that's one thing. if they say you're lovely in line at the grocery that's quite another.

i think you meant to say 100% of women don't like compliments from unattractive strangers but do like them from attractive strangers.

I get what you're saying, and why it bothers you that men judge your looks. It's an inexorable fact of life that men immediately make a "would i have sex with this woman" judgment the instant they see you. This is insurmountable.

and you surveyed all men everywhere to determine that they're secretly trying to control you when they call you pretty?

didn't think so.

The problem is that some girls like compliments and others don't. There is no way to know which of these types you are, so men are going to go ahead and stay optimistic and hope you are flattered.

Men have the burden of making propositions most of the time, and most of the time they are rebuffed, even if they're…

Welp, can you name ANY example that exists where completely ignoring someone is not considered rude? No matter what was said? At any point? In any situation? By any person? To any person? Of any gender? On any planet?

It's the same when someone opens the door for you and you don't say thank you. It's cunty. Or…

it actually is. maybe it makes you feel controlled, but the intent is not to control you.

His books aren't conforming to a trend. He is a straight dude who doesn't want to write gay sex scenes, because he probably thinks that's gross, which is fine.

it's not really a power play at all though. almost zero men have that motive in mind when they tell you you're pretty.

this never happened

i think it's important to distinguish among kinds of sex offenders. i think child abusers have a high rate of of recidivism but not necessary dudes like this, or people who pee outside, etc.