So true, and probably part of why these guys can’t get dates (along with their unrealistic expectations). You don’t go normal to serial killer in a day. Even before they started thinking of shooting up a school, they were giving off some creepy vibes.

And men treating women like people, and not lying about conquests to their “lesser” peers would go a long way to prevent this misogynistic belief that males are entitled access to female bodies just ‘cause.

Out of curiosity (because I've been thinking about this issue and what can be done about it), what were the "positive female influences"? Platonic friends, family, girlfriends?

That quote sums up gender inequality like nothing else. And is incredibly chilling in its accuracy.

Niceguyitis.

This. I got dumped via text last night by someone I’d been seeing for three months, and my reaction was, “Okay. No big deal.” He offered an explanation, and I said, “None necessary. I wish you luck!” Not for one hot second did I think of getting a gun and murdering unrelated people.

It just saddens me because there are so many women out there who feel rejected or lonely or sad because they’re single but I have never met a woman who managed to take “I’m sad because I’m single” to the conclusion, “Men are the problem for rejecting me and I must take violent revenge on them.” There are examples of…

The thing that always frustrates me is these guys are always saying “NO ONE” will date them when they usually mean “No one who’s 5’5” with 38-28-36 measurements and a Maxim spread who likes to watch anime with me and make me sandwiches.” Granted, this particular guy had deeper issues, but as a formerly lonely nerdy…

we all were raised with those awful messages. the good ones figure out what the bullshit is instead of doubling down on it. good on you.

My mom told me, if just because you can’t get a date doesn’t mean that you stop trying to find someone.

Also “increasingly marginalized” = increasingly less completely dominant in all spheres, so. Cry me a river indeed.

Like, everything about that quote is wrong. Young men aren’t marginalized, there are plenty of workable paths to “manhood”, and the patriarchal definition of manhood is all wrong.

I think it has something to do with having a good job, a submissive wife, and kids? IDK...

What the fuck is “full-fledged manhood?” I think we should probably ensure there’s no workable path to wherever that is, because it sounds terrible.

I’m surprised someone hasn’t tried to give the whole “girls don’t sleep with me so I’m murderous” thing a name in the hopes of legitimizing it. Like testicular retention induced psychosis. Or a friendlier sounding “He had a case of the jizzblocked cranial crazies.”

stories like this always freak me out, because long ago, as an angry young man, I too raged at the world about why I was single, trying to blame something else other than my own bullshit.

My cousin posted this on Facebook today, linking to this article about how the poor menz are not getting good jobs and attracting “mates.”

Margaret Atwood was on point when she said,

and immediately cue gun fanatics calling for her to be shot. jesus, i just can’t even with this country most of the time.

A thousand times yes. Domestic violence plus guns equals a literal war on women.