King Johnson, your journal entry is spot-on. Good job.

VSB should hire that kid.

That child is going places. I love him.

We need to get this kid free tickets to see Black Panther. That’s the least he deserves for being the woke and being this “I don’t give a fuck about how woke I am” at age 9. Shit, put him in the movie.

Teacher: “King, I am very disappointed in your journal today.”

“I’m not quite sure if the popular sitcom trope of the meathead man and his patient and smarter (and much younger) wife existed first or if that was already such a prevalent thought that the trope just reflected it.”

Yeah, I’m going to assume that most men don’t want to be rapey dude, but that we’ve been acculturated to it and that most women don’t think that an unwanted shoulder touch is a premeditated attack. I am going to stand on men needing to be uncomfortably self-aware and women having the historical right to consider an…

I’m sure it’s why the whole thing resonated with so many women. Who among us hasn’t ignored what we’re saying and then turned right around and said “Butbutbut I thought you actually meant ....” They aren’t stupid, but they sure are manipulative and full of crap sometimes. The men in my life and at my office play dumb…

A lot of men are happy and benefit sitting right in their perceived dumbness.

But this is better for everyone involved. Rapey dude is no longer interacting with women and women don’t have to deal with rapey dude. Cool.

No, not dumb. Battered by constant psychological and physical assault.

I think I had three revelations reading that article. This line especially made me a number of past incidents in my life in a whole new light.

I would guess, though (and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong), that if a person lacks the ability to understand nonverbal communication and body language, that they probably also don’t communicate as much nonverbally.

I think it’s still pretty simple, even if you can’t read body language or understand more subtle verbal communication, ask and wait for a “yes” rather than waiting for a “no.” The burden shouldn’t be on the other person to say no, that’s not real consent

Here’s what that tactic has yielded though.

Every time one of these fucknuts talks about how asking for consent is silly, I want to be like “So, when you want to go out for dinner with your girl, do you ask her first, or do you just shove her in the car, drive her to the restaurant, order for her, and start shoving the food down her throat?”

I took a HMSX class back in college in ‘04 and this is the same shit guys would come up with. Trying to pivot simple request to not be assholes into some kind of victimization. And everyone of those dudes who sat there an acted like it was so difficult to interpret signals to back the fuck off from women were students…

No man is that fucking stupid to believe that the only safe way to interact with women now is to not interact with women now.

I guarantee that probably 90% of those who complained about that article never fucking read the thing. Otherwise they’re “people” who think that chasing someone around the room because everytime you try to put your fingers down their throat (which is just fucking weird) they suddenly back away and verbally tell you to…

“my dad used to make a Kool-Aid concoction he’d call “Kool-Aid Wine.” Reserved for special occasions—Thanksgivings, birthdays, Super Bowl parties, that time Cops was in Pittsburgh (and on our block!) and we invited people over to watch”