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2 min readOct 28, 2023

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I don't disagree with or have a problem with any of that. There's nothing in the world wrong with focusing on one gender or another for a single article. And for sure, there's shitty people aplenty to go around.

My sole problem was that one sentence, "what makes you think you have the right?"

Women have the same rights to be unmitigated assholes that men do.

Women have been complaining about the same sort of shitty behavior from men and stuff like 'the switch's for decades now. It's abusive. It's not love. It destroys you.

Overwhelmingly, the response from men has been, "you should have chosen better men."

So the standard is already set for dealing with nefarious people in the dating market.

Choose better. Your responsibility to vett better and attract better.

So when, in an article addressing women who do this shit, you ask 'ehat makes you think you have the right?', you're reinforcing a narrative that says society has a responsibility to protect men from harm but not women. Men can do whatevee the hell they want to us because we "asked for it" but we don't have that same right. Women are to be used but men have to be handled like a precious little menagerie because they're so fragile.

A decent and easy edit can fix that. Fair is fair.

If choose better is the standard, them men can choose better too. They could start liokinf at and seeinf us a full human beingsbinstead of a hole to stick their dick in. They could not be so hung up on looks, weight, past history, and proportions.

They could get off dating apps, which drives and/or concentrates a lot of this behavior by turning dating and socializing into a giant catalog. People aren't outfits.

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