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ismnotwasm

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11. Those guys actually think being desired by them is a compliment
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:07 AM
Jun 2014

I mean how ironic? Men you wouldn't even consider as sexual partners also think it's a measure of control and superiority discussing their particular opinions of what they would or wouldn't do. I remember the face of a friend or so of mine when I told them male desire wasn't a compliment. Theyre good guys, but didn't-- couldn't get it. What I meant was I spent a large part of my life being seen as a collection of body parts, not as a person. It lost it's novelty by the time I was 20. It turned into something else, something ugly. I started calling myself a feminist by the time I was 19, even when I thought feminism meant I could fuck who I wanted, hurt who I could. It's been quite a journey.

Turn it around, women can be cruel, but they're not threatening rape of partners they don't want.

And I don't give a fuck what our Evo-psych friends say or even legitimate biological impulses are, you will respect me or your desire means exactly dick.

And I'm a big flirt, personally I think it's a lost art, turned into something crude, it should have more to do with social graces than 'hook up culture'



And a paper with a rape fantasy? Ew. Just ew.

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