Good article, Kara. Also, let's look at this impressive (nauseating) piece of academic jargon: "To call someone "basic" is to look into the abyss of continually flattening capitalist dystopia and, instead of articulating and interrogating the fear, transform it into casual misogyny."

If you will allow me to get very, very real for a minute: this hysteria over basic is really just a bunch of privileged white girls caring too much about what other people think.

I find it weird when women change their names on social media immediately upon getting engaged/married. I was at a wedding where the bride took out her phone and showed people that she had changed her name on Facebook. I can't articulate why it bugs me so much but it really does.

I especially like that all of these generous gentlemen who just want to HELP 1) only want to help young, attractive women and 2) stipulate that said women sleep in their bed instead of on the couch, or a pallet on the floor, or a futon or any other option, even though it's totes nothing sexual at all.

P.S.: You're obviously shitposting for negative attention so just stop. Please go back to r/foreveralone.

Since when the fuck has rap not been an art? Your racism and classism are showing.

That little intake of breath, when she first sees Johnny dancing? That's exactly what happened to me the first time I laid eyes on my first-ever, heart-fluttery, huge-crush boyfriend. I thought I was going to die right there. He really was so beautiful, he took my 15-year-old breath away. {Sigh}

I know you weren't damning her.

You are barely capable of stringing together a sentence and your ideas exhibit incredibly flawed rationalities. How dare anyone suggest that patriarchal systems that socialise men towards violence and women to submit to violence might result in the violent subjection of women AND men, and that a case in which a man…

Except that when you control for factors such as poverty, there is little racial disparity in violent crime stats, shitpile. Incredibly false equivalence there.

So you're saying that women murder men at the same rate that men murder women? Cause that's not true. Men commit 90% of the murders in the US. This means that men are killing men, and they are also killing women.

The statistics of a man committing violence against a woman is incredibly high. So, you are trivializing a serious reality. And to imply that women can just look at a man and know he won't kill her is laughable and dangerous. How is she supposed to know whether she'll be part of the statistic or not? Even if the…

"'Why do men feel threatened by women?' I asked a male friend of mine. So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. 'I mean,' I said, 'men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and…

The stakes are always higher when you're a woman. It goes back to the saying "Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them." And yet men's fear of being laughed at/rejected is supposed to be taken more seriously because being killed is no biggie but being laughed at or rejected is THE…

Yes, and then she had to suffer for the "crimes" of all the women before her that rejected his advances. If pretty women would just fuck anyone who ever told them to, no one would be murdered right?!

I know. And someone's going to jump in here about how statistically unlikely this is to happen to us by whatever random guy is harassing us on the street, and I'm like WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW. Then it's like, if we get raped or hurt or killed, we are blamed for being alone on that street, or putting ourselves in a…

But wait, I thought men said that if we would just be nicer we wouldn't have to deal with verbal abuse from men on the street?

It just made it that tiny bit more depressing and exasperating to me. She rejected him with patriarchy-acceptable ego-saving language and he still killed her for it.

"Why don't women just tell us when they're not interested????" -Reddit