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What Would Harold Ramis Do?

Your 40 Year-Old, Male, Single, 5'10", Fit, Bald, Caucasian, Hazel-Eyed, Overeducated, Nice Dressing, Wine- and Food-Obsessed, West Loop-living Secret Admirer

Dear Single Men of (Insert Any City Here),

So like, this is a different incident than the woman who was shot and killed this week after turning down a dude?

#notallmen, amirite?

Are you really dropping some #NotAllMen bullshit around here while women are dying for just being women?? In a second article within an hour span from the first one about a woman rejecting man's advances and getting punished by violence and death because of it. Just stop.

I just got into an argument with an old high school friend (he's terrible. we are no longer friends) about the Louis CK quote, "Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will murder them.", in reference to the story of the woman in Detroit who was shot and killed for daring to refuse a man's sexual

So why does this happen so often? I don't doubt that this man is dealing with some sort of mental issue. But this very specific crime of hurting (or even killing) women because of rejection has been happening alarmingly often, so I think you'll find that it's a combination of our "rape culture" and "male

Yep. It is like the Louis CK stand up about how men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will murder them.

you're a good guy, Carlos.

This week is just terrible. I know, all weeks are terrible.

Only a couple times in my life have I asked a woman who was otherwise a stranger for her number. My romantic/sexual encounters have exclusively come through meeting a friend of a friend, and something developing from there.

I want to kick an activist who says a guy like this doesn't need to spend 20 years in prison because people are reformable, because prison should be about rehabilitation only etc et fucking cetera.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK FUCK
THIS IS THE SECOND ONE I READ ABOUT IN THE GAP OF 10 MINUTES. WHAT IN THE SUPREME FUCK IS THIS FUCKING SHIT

"Once again we are faced with the brutal reality that a woman simply living her life is considered a punishable offense. That a woman declining to hold a conversation in the early hours of the morning with a total stranger deserves a horrifically twisted form of retaliation. That a woman who most likely had her own

OBAMA STARTED THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC AND OBAMABOLA IS COMING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AND MAKE YOUG ET GAY MARRIED.

I'm a sucker for local news stations Facebook posts, the amount of racist/xenophobic/ignorant comments are astounding, especially when you consider that it is tied to people's real lives.

Jesus. If stupidity was a disease, half of this damn country would be rotting in the streets.