it’s not a meme you fucking nitwit, it’s a quote by a famous author. holy shit, lol.

Exactly. It reminds me of the Louis CK bit about dating. Woman: “Where are we going?” Man: “Well, statistically, probably to your death.”

It’s fascinating (but not surprising) how different your reaction to a man saying the same thing women were saying before. Women you are hostile and rude to. Accusing them of overstating, over reacting, pretending a fear they don’t really have, manufacturing a problem. A man tho... A MAN says “Dude, back up... they…

You know what? How dare you. This is not a meme. It’s a quote by goddamn Margaret Atwood, an amazingly talented novelist, poet, and critic. It is NOT clumsy, it is concise and poignant, and just because you are too thick-skulled to understand it (you even quoted it wrong in a previous comment!) doesn’t mean it fails…

I am amazed that you continue to minimize both the enormous efforts and the sheer number of people who have “helped you to understand” this issue by your calling it “a few” when there have been literally - literally - hundreds.

The quote still doesn’t say “reject” anywhere in it. The fact that you think someone rejecting at you and someone laughing at you are the same actually does say a lot about how your mind works. You think that being rejected is a personal affront, an insult, an act committed against you. None of which is true. A woman…

there are so many logical fallacies contained in this post, i don’t even know where to begin to take it apart. you completely misinterpreted the quote and projected a whole bunch of your own psychological bullshit baggage onto it. you could hardly be more wrong about the implications of the atwood quote, even if you…

“i piped up because of the meme implying that all men are capable of harming/killing a woman.”

Why would a woman express that fear to you when you’ve made it so clear that your response will be to dismiss it and say she’s being sexist?

Women are statistically far less likely to kill. Seriously. Men practically have a monopoly on violence. You wanna know how many mass murderers have been women since the 80's? One. Just ONE.

Now you wanna know how many men have threatened, harassed, or actually assaulted me personally for turning down their advances or…

I was asleep in bed, 6 months pregnant. Partner came in drunk and attempted to initiate sex. I came round and he clapped his hand over my mouth. I couldn’t breathe and began to struggle. He choked me, only letting go when I stopped struggling. He slapped me on my face and head and left in disgust. I was honestly…

The meme doesn’t imply that all men are capable of murder. You inferred that. The meme says “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Your “exploratory questions” are boring and irritating - not to mention incredibly callous because they’re completely ignoring the context of womens’ terror — because there isn’t a woman here who hasn’t heard some variation on it several hundred times before.

it’s not a meme. it’s a quote, from the nobel prize winning author margaret atwood. don’t insult her like that, she’s not grumpy cat.

I have a theory about that (yeah, I know).

Gee, with your condescension, block headedness, dismissive attitude and not all men nonsense, I can't imagine why a woman has never opened up to you about her experiences. Surely it must be because it never or rarely happens. Surely.

There’s nothing clumsy about the quotation. You seem willfully determined to misunderstand it.

Not only have I been honestly afraid for rejecting a man, I have fought for my life for rejecting one. I still have migraines and vertigo as reminders for living through a subdural hematoma that almost killed me. So yeah... there’s that.

I think you need to recognize that the “meme” isn’t clumsy; your understanding of what it’s saying is. Have you explored that possibility? You’ve attributed a meaning to it that is ill-formed, incorrect and not widely held. This should give you pause about your understanding. This is not a situation where everyone…

My only reaction to this whole thread is “what the fuck?”