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alexwrekk: breelandwalker: cognitivedissonance: leupagus: skyline-through-the-window: goddess-: leupagus: This is so beautiful. #honestly earbuds are the best invention ever for this exact reason what the actual fuck. are we shitting on this guy because he wanted to go and just talk to a girl. I mean yeah, this is a clear intentional overreaction for the sake of comedy. but are girls really like “ear buds are awesome for defending against asshole guys bugging me.” I didn’t realize someone walking up to you to say hi made them an asshole or meant they were trying to get into your pants, my apologies. There’ve been a few of these comments, so I’ll just address this one real quick: nobody’s shitting on anyone (despite the rather graphic claims of the clearly intentionally overreacting dude who posted this). We - as in women - are sharing a profound truth about social interactions while being in public. Namely, that the overwhelming majority of times that men (not “someone,” men) walk up to us to say hi, they are trying to get into our pants. And this is based on experience. This is not based on us being full of ourselves. This is not based on one bad interaction amidst a plethora of good ones. This is us saying, “we’ve had numerous interactions in public with men we do not know, and we’ve decided that the number of times that we have a nice, pleasant conversation does not outweigh the number of times we have had a gross or unpleasant conversation. So we’ve decided to take steps to put up boundaries rather than risk the gross or unpleasant conversations.” I mean, go and read through the reblogs of this - women talk about men who have literally ripped the earbuds out of these women’s ears in order to ask them their names, or to “just say hi.” Do you really think that men who do this are just being friendly? Then why don’t we hear about this happening to men from women invading their space and bothering them? Why don’t we hear men complaining about other men doing it, or women complaining about other women doing it? Doesn’t the fact that these experiences are all going one way - that they are all women talking about the times that men have done this to them - register with you at all? And do you really think all the women who are, in your view, shitting on this guy are doing so out of some bizarre desire to be mean? Or is it possible that they are recognizing a type of man that they have had numerous run-ins with and have learned to defend themselves against, and they are happy to hear that their defense is working? Is it just barely possible that women are laughing at this man because they are glad to see a confirmation of what they’ve long suspected, which is that male strangers approach them, it’s rarely out of a genuine friendliness but rather a desire to fuck her? Because heres’ the thing: you’re pretending that all this guy wanted to do was “just talk to a girl,” but that’s total bullshit based on what the poster actually said - he has a crush on her, he was planning a “cold approach,” he was angry enough at being prevented to write a very badly-written rant about it. He did, in fact, want into her pants. And a woman has every right to shut that down at whatever stage she damn well pleases. Also, if this guy was going for comedy, he deserves to be made fun of for being such a shitty comedian. This is so spot on. I had a dude approach me at a burger stand a couple of weeks ago, and actually pull the earbud from my left ear so he could tell me he loved a woman who loves a good burger. I asked him on what universe was that okay, and could he please leave me alone, and he replied, “Sure thing, lesbo.” When I told my friends this later that night, one of their boyfriends said, “Well, he was probably drunk, cut him some slack.” No. It is not on me to cut anyone slack for that. I don’t owe them conversation or a compliment or gratitude for unwanted attention. Just like the woman this turbodouche was complaining about doesn’t owe him a date, earbuds or not. I don’t know about other people, but I thought earbuds sent a pretty clear signal that I was not interested in being approached by anyone for any reason other than to tell me I’m literally on fire. SO spot on. And how dare we want to have earbuds in and maybe listen to music or chill and relax for a while? How dare we be thinking of anything in the world besides accommodating the random entitled jackass who’s pumping himself up in the bathroom for a “cold approach,” which is TOTALLY not about getting into our pants, and who will likely insult us if we refuse his advances? How dare we not leave ourselves accessible to any man at any time for any reason? Boys, earbuds are a pre-emptive NO. We don’t have to give you a chance to flirt if we don’t feel like it. We don’t even have to give you a moment of our time. We don’t owe you SHIT. And if you are actually enough of a doucheweasel to go up to someone and physically pull out their earbuds in order to mouthbreathe whatever pointless pick-up you’d pulled out of your condom pocket, then you fully deserve the steaming-hot coffee that’s about to get dumped in your lap. -- source link
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