you can always tell when a dude has some bullshit attitude like this if he refers to women as "females"

I think the problem is that so many guys, upon some sort of perceived 'slight', go apeshit. Lots of men just can't handle rejection, and sexual violence is an every day thing that women have to take into account. So, yes, sometimes men do creepy things out of ignorance, or naivety, but you can't really blame women for…

From my experience, men who call women "females" are douchebags. So there you go.

Their comment, while harshly worded, is valid, though. You said yourself that you don't want to come off as some kind of MRA troll — one important step in not sounding like those dummies is to stop referring to human women as "females."

Women. You think women are cruel. Anyone who calls them "females" tends to have very little luck in romance and wonders why.

Oh, the poor menz! Put the blame equally on the women, eh? Even if they are only girls? Sure, they are what you would call impolite because they're totally flabbergasted and often scared, but hey, they have some responsibility?? Uh, no. And it is often creepiness and "attractiveness disparities." Or at least…

Female what? Baboon? Manatee? Maybe start calling them "women" and you will be on the right path?

Have you seen all the stories about women- hell, girls - who get killed when they reject a guy's overtures? How many stories about men getting killed in the same situation? Can you see why for a girl it's more nerve-wracking to be hit on someone you aren't interested in? Not even hit on in these cases, but bombarded…

The importance to not coming off as an MRA troll is realizing that the imbalance of power comes not from "women" but rather from the patriarchal stereotypes that are fed to both men and women.

the common thread i see is some men who think all women want the same thing, a thing a movie told them women want, and chose to not see those women as individuals who may have opinions and preferences that they should respect. other people are not prizes to be won. if someone likes you, you can sense it and feel it…

Yes. Really. It isn't because the kids didn't understand relationships and went to a weird place. I also did similar types of things as a young man. It was awful, but it's being a kid.

I'd say it's more 50-50 at best than "usually" well-intentioned. At best. I'd say 9/10 of the men I rejected were effing creepy. They should be blaming their parents for not teaching them better, but they usually blame women.

I didn't watch the skit, but just want to point out that if women are perceived to have more control in this regard (I'm assuming you mean in calling out sexual harassment), it is really that in our everyday lives our behavior skews to protecting ourselves from (sexual) violence (not to sound hyperbolic, and it's a…

"the culprit's mother said he had not been taking his medication"

I don't entirely believe that. I've done countless romantic gestures for girls and haven't really had a single failed attempt. The biggest problem with many of these "romantic" gestures was that they were WAY too self involved. The guy wanted or was expecting something to come of them. If you go into any situation…

Thank you for trying to explain nos. 2-4. While I am angry that the author experienced such bigotry at the performance (I was actually at that performance, too! Random.), there was also an underlying lack of knowledge about the opera industry in this piece that I thought was worth clarifying. But I'm lazy, and you…

The couple was undeniably shitty, but do you really expect the manager to go over and yell at the old couple for being racist? Especially when he's dealing with a man having a heart attack? It would be one thing if the couple needed to be ejected from the theater, but the manager's responsibility isn't to go shame…

I'll give this to you with as much pertinent information as possible because I work full time in the opera industry:

"Males don't typically do stuff like this because deep down inside, the females we are trying to impress want nothing more than to tear our hearts out, capture our excruciating pain in their memory banks, then share it with their friends while we watch in horror."

Yup. Women rarely have a desire to rip anyone's heart out (unless Stacy wears the exact same dress to this wedding, THAT BITCH), but speaking as a guy, way too many of us are way too weird, gross or genuinely unsettling/off-putting in some way.