You are completely correct. My uncle told the women in my family the same thing. He said men are not interested in speaking with women or hearing their opinions. If they are talking to you, they are interested in dating/sex/etc. and even if they marry you, they still don’t want to hear from you.

wtf else is he supposed to do? he served his 2 terms and he and his family have been subjected to far, far more vile insults than poor ol’ donny. he has every right to live the remainder of his life however he sees fit. fuck you.

AVC hardly ever writes about Obama. This is a list published by a highly regarded ex-President about movies, music, tv and books he liked. What does AVC review? Shut the fuck up yeah they’re gonna write about this. Why the fuck did you click on it if you didn’t want this coverage to get attention? You just attributed…

What an asshole! I’m sorry you dealt with someone so easily threatened by your general awesomeness.

Yeah, I know. The guy the AV Club sent to come into my house, force me to open up the site on my browser, click the link, read the article, and then comment was unnecessarily rough. How was your guy?

I’ve had a few conversations with men, where they are bitching about an interaction/date they had with a woman who was clearly NOT interested. They’re like, “AUGHHH women! So confusing. So many mixed signals. I don’t get women.” And the men present will nod along.

“forced down our throats”

Jesus Christ, HOW? HOOOOOW?

We elected Trump. We deserve MUCH less than “good luck.”

That dialogue sounds like something straight out of a Michael Bay movie. Barf.

You know, it was a similar situation to yours that first opened my eyes to male privilege. This was back in 2012, before it was in the social consciousness the way it is today. I was traveling in South America and I was having a conversation with two other American tourists but they were both women. One arrived around…

I lost a lot of weight for awhile and, clothed, at least, looked Barbie-ish. Men were so much more violent and outright hostile to me than they were when I was as super morbidly obese, when they just ignored me. There is no winning this game called patriarchy.

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What gets me about entitlement is the perfect shield it forms against reality. Even when you told this guy, bluntly, that the whole rom-com performance was gross and scary and UNLIKABLE, he just tuned it out. Every single one of women’s objections can be slotted into guys like this responses, like a Choose Your Own…

When I was on OkCupid (which I call “OkStupid”), I used to get messages like that:

I didn’t want him to know where I lived so I stopped a block away and said, “Look, romcoms lied to you. I don’t like you. I think you’re a rude jerk who won’t leave me alone. I’m doing my best not to give you the impression I like you because I don’t. Please go home now.” The whole time he never took me seriously and…

“But the embarrassment that comes with being a woman can feel wholly inevitable: Being too forward; talking too much; not talking enough; seeming too shy; texting too soon; coming across like a bitch or coming across as too easy. For every overstep there’s the possibility I’ll lose ground just standing still. The fear…

I’m surprised he didn’t:

Shudder.  I was followed home by strangers when I was in my 20s, and that was bad enough, but the combination of smugness and threat here is just so appalling.

Consider this shit STOLEN. Such a good response, I love it.

When I was single, I remember talking politics with some guy I’d met at a party. He tried to call me out for something, and I sternly nailed him back with facts and data. I sincerely thought he was a jerk because of the way he smugly raised his objections to my argument and rolled his eyes. I walked away.

I often think about that one girl who when guys would text her “You are beautiful” she stopped demurring and would respond with “Yes, I know.” And the responses she would get would be amazing, in fact, down right hostile. Patriarchy doesn’t want women to be confident in any sort of arena—men make the rules, and the…