Oh! This isn’t like a break up story but I stopped hanging out with my bff because he was into me like that and became pretty possessive.

after getting dumped in high school, i came home in tears and announced that i was going to slash his tires. i dramatically asked my mom where the box cutter was and she gave me a big hug and said “no, sweetie. what you want is a hammer and a screw driver.”

Have you never been hit on by someone you aren't attracted to? It's awkward and nerve-wracking, and it puts you in a bad position. There is no right answer, just a series of increasingly wrong ones.

Wow. You might want to go see a therapist.

For the record, you should never do stuff like this for someone you aren't currently dating. So: not for crushes, not for exes you're trying to win back, and not for people you've just started dating either.

Otherwise it just sorta screams "I'm creepily obsessed with you and have no sense of personal boundaries."

Alternate Take:

Guys are really bad at not weirding out women.

Your essay makes me uncomfortable. I honestly don't know how to help or be an ally. I work with kids in the family court system, either through abuse/neglect or juvenile delinquency/incorrigability. I want to fight for these kids, the majority of whom are POC. How do we do that without becoming a "good white person"?…

It's funny that an article talking about "conditioning" and "brainwashing" is essentially telling a group of women "you don't want or like what you think you do; you just haven't figured out that you're just like the rest of us yet". How is it feminist to assert that deep down all women are traditionally feminine, and…