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1 min readSep 28, 2024

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Because this rhetoric is part of what's driving men to suicide. You're not calling out double standards, you're justifying ones that already exist. You're driving a wedge between genders. You're demanding women surrender their agency and desires to the petty capriciousness of men because men have agency but don't want to utilize it.

It doesn't work.

Her standards are her standards. It is not for men to tell women what standards they are allowed to have. You can disagree with them, you can advocate for men not to accept shifty standards. You can try to explain to women why those standards don't work for you, why you think they're a mistake, why you refuse to meet them. You can write essays about how thise standards negatively impacted you. But your rights end when someone else's personhood begins.

You don't get to tell someone else what their standards can be.

That's equality.

Her standards, whatever they are, are her standards. Nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing g you to date someone with unbeatable or unwanted standards. Exercise your agency and choose better women.

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