This is what happened at the Colorado theater shooting. It’s also part of masculinity:

It’s no more or less fragile then femininity; just fragile people taking refuge in it.

I can’t cite to any particular source for this, and I doubt any reliable source exists. That assertion is based purely on my own experiences, and the experiences of other people with whom I’ve discussed this topic. I’ve seen women try this on men, but it is so ubiquitously configured as a “man doing it to a woman”…

Those are only things friends do when they are a two-way street. When one person is just using the other, that’s not friendship.

what are you basing that on? I’ve had women do that to me several times.

Nah, I think it’s attempted in equal numbers by men and women. It’s just that when it fails, men are more likely to get loud/angry about it, while women are more likely to go home and sob and eat ice cream or whatever. So you naturally just observe the outcome of failed attempts by men more often.

Lord knows there’s no…

A reason a lot of guys probably get bitter about it is that many women are pretty manipulative of dudes they put in the friendzone. So you have some (generally) romantically clueless guy who doesn’t know enough to take the direct approach, and a girl who likes him but in a totally non-sexual way. But women are…

Why do you assume this is only true for men?

The guy sounds like a doormat and isn’t nearly as “progressive” as he thinks he is.

This, A thousand times this.

Before I scrolled down and saw her picture, I knew she was a black mother. This never happens to white moms.

“You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They’ve got this thing wired,”

First, all the white guys I know are either failed screenwriters working desk jobs, blue collar workers, or burnouts who were skaters/jocks.

Could not be happier that she is not directing Black Panther.

U WOT M8: ““Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want,” she continued. “We’ve been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. ...”

Sure you do. Everyone just stares at your awesome body and it’s so hard to be you! Maybe no one stares at you at all? Oh the first world and it’s hard hard problems! Did the office run out of Diet Coke too? Is your internet too slow? I weep for you. Real tears.

i’m sick of ugly/average/old dudes (of all racial groups) looking at me in a sexualized,entitled way.

It’s almost like they’re trying to push their agenda too hard. They believe that anything a man has to say must be scrutinized because men are all entitled by their very gender.

I'm one of the dudes that doesn't want to give up my CGI boobs and sexy underage girls and over the top violence. That shit is fun. Killer is Dead? A fucking blast that I enjoyed from start to finish. DoA 5? Hilariously ludicrous story mixed with nonsense breast physics for endless jokes.

Did you see the nearly dozen articles on sites like Kotaku, Polygon, Gamasutra, and Ars Technica that came out within a day of each other proclaiming the death of the "gamer" identify or the evil of "gamers"?