BREAKING: Women using earbuds to commit grave misandries upon innocent men

[maxomai]

Allow me to add my comment upon this.

Gentlemen:

• If you're trying to pick up random women on the street just because they look hot, you're actually making their lives a lot worse. Your base assumption should be that most women on the street would rather be left severely alone, especially by you.


• The first rule for human interaction is don't be a creep. If you're like me and give off weird body language, this means you need to actively work on not being a creep. Prefer handshakes to hugs, respect her space, and let her initiate anything more intimate. This is the opposite of what you're expected to do as a man and may be the opposite of what she's trained to expect as a woman. Would you rather be known as gay/uninteresting or as a likely rapist?


• If you want a girlfriend and aren't having any luck, try expanding your social circles. "The Friendzone" isn't as ironclad as you think, and friends and friends-of-friends can make for awesome girlfriends, particularly because they share most of your same interests. Or, yeah, consider Internet dating. I had rotten luck with it, but maybe you'll do better. Or, consider the nightclub scene, the bar scene, speed dating, and so on. At least there, getting hit on by strangers isn't such a huge disruption.


• This is also full of good advice.


• Finally, if your actual intention is just to exorcise your macho insecurities at the expense of total strangers --- you're a scumbag, and fuck you.

End of embellishment.


Originally posted by manboobz_rss at BREAKING: Women using earbuds to commit grave misandries upon innocent men

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Oh noes!

So this little screenshot is making the rounds on the internet. It’s from 4chan, so who knows if the guy posting it is sincere. But I’ve seen similar, albeit less histrionic, complaints from other would-be pickup artistes in the past.

Guess what, dude. Some of those women wearing earbuds aren’t even listening to music. They just wear them to avoid creepy dudes like you.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

My daughter is 16, she is 5 feet two of Brooklyn attitude. She has been taking the subway to school and back on her own since she was 12. She thinks she is tough.

The other day her ear-buds broke. She asked for money to get new ones right away. She wants money for something almost every day-- so I tried to get her to wait, a lot of times if she waits a day or two she will realize that that the need for the thing is less urgent than she thought.

She shook her head at me and said 'Mom it is how I shut out the men who say things.'

The streets here are crowded, day and night. Even so, she and her friends pretty much always travel in a pack.

Earbuds allow the illusion of space, and of being alone.

[maxomai.livejournal.com]

SC and I have "adopted an actress." This person has asked us to drop her off somewhere where she can pick up new earbuds when her old ones broke, for precisely the reasons your daughter gave. They're as essential to day-to-day safety as a woman in downtown Portland as a fistful of keys.