History of Feminism
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Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them
irisblue
(34,417 posts)Title-
A Man Felt So Humiliated That A 21-Year-Old Woman Beat Him At Pickup Basketball That He Shot And Killed Her, According To Her Family
source-https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/woman-shot-texas-basketball-game
snip-"The family said Womack won the game. Then the shooter, who they say knew her, took his children and brother home before coming back to the park and shooting Womack five times as she was walking home.
"This was supposed to be a friend of Asias. She's eaten with the man," Andrea Womack, Womacks mother, told the outlet. "Shes fed him, and he turned on her and killed her in a vicious way."
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Scrivener7
(53,216 posts)saying that at night on a deserted street every man you encounter is a potential rapist and needs to be treated that way. And men should be aware of that fact and, unless they are a rapist, sensitive to it.
Men here were outraged. They were insulted. They were enraged. They told us we were paranoid, called us names for suggesting such a thing.
A couple of years later, along comes Covid. Some of those SAME men (the ones who haven't been PPR'd, as most of the men's rights ones have) were the loudest ones complaining, "Everyone I meet could give me Covid. I have no way of knowing who will and who won't! The ones who don't mask and don't distance are putting me in DANGER!!1!
They got the concept. They just didn't care enough to apply it when it didn't concern themselves.
CrispyQ
(38,598 posts)Deliberate obtuseness. It was good to see who were the jerks, though.
niyad
(120,693 posts)standing rule was that she had to text me his pic, the number he gave her, and where they were meeting. And she had to text me once an hour. I am thankul that she hs since stopped this insanity.
irisblue
(34,417 posts)I had an agreement w/girl friends that they would page me 30 minutes into the date. "Oh! Work looking for me, I'll be back in a minute", I'd go find the pay phone in the bar/restaurant lobby & check in. I also called when I got home.
CrispyQ
(38,598 posts)1, Make sure your best friend knows the name of who you're going out with, where he works, & where you plan to go.
2. Carry enough cash to get yourself home. Don't forget change for a pay phone.
3. Once home, call your friend.
I had some other rules, too. First dates never got to pick me up at home.
Arkansas Granny
(31,869 posts)you do the same. Chances are, you're leaving, for whatever reason.
Diamond_Dog
(35,188 posts)I think most men have absolutely no idea.
irisblue
(34,417 posts)do not know thism