""Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don't have it better," she said. "They need our sympathy. They need our love, and maybe they need each other more than anyth

SuperUppercut · 2013-01-13T09:29:23+00:00

"She was surprised that many women had no interest in a soft, vulnerable man."

All of my lols

QuestionSign · 2013-01-13T08:38:34+00:00

tl;dr. Everyone has fucking problems and we need to stop playing the damn oppression olympics and just start working on solutions.

My_Post_Is_On_Topic · 2013-01-13T11:48:31+00:00

She was quickly reminded that in this arena, it's women who have the power, she said.

"In fact, we sit there and we just with one word, 'no,' will crush someone," she said. "We don't have to do the part where you cross the room and you go up to a stranger that you've never met in the middle of a room full of people and say the first words. And those first words are so hard to say without sounding like a cheeseball or sounding like a jerk."

This. So much, this.

mattlohkamp · 2013-01-13T08:31:15+00:00

She continued her emotional descent, and a week later, checked in to a hospital with severe depression

... Whoa what?

Gamerp4 · 2013-01-13T10:32:02+00:00

Kind of like Undercover investigation of the Evil men but instead she found something different about them, I hope she tell this to her feminist sisters out there Making Anti Male campaigns and calling out for Male privileges.

Greyfeld · 2013-01-13T06:54:18+00:00

I really liked this article, but I wish there was a more detailed account to go along with it. I'm looking to see if I can find any video of her account.

Edit: I don't know if this is the whole report, but I found 3 videos on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/28614921

http://vimeo.com/28616724

http://vimeo.com/28617496

CosmicKeys · 2013-01-13T08:58:13+00:00

Obligatory FtM trans-man story. Newsflash, the grass is not greener.

http://www.avoiceformen.com/misandry/chivalry/from-woman-to-man-to-red-pill/?utm_source=dlvr.it&%20utm_medium=twitter

rhyno012 · 2013-01-13T15:54:34+00:00

The irony is that the folks over at /r/TwoXChromosomes would think that when she came out as a woman to her friends, the typical response from a male would be to freak out, however if the genders were reversed, we can say with 90% certainty that the subjects new friends would not be as accepting when he came out as a man in woman's clothing.

HydrogenxPi · 2013-01-13T08:43:28+00:00

I've read the book if there are any questions.

kawaiigardiner · 2013-01-13T10:39:57+00:00

here are video links for those interested:

Part 1: http://vimeo.com/28614921 Part 2: http://vimeo.com/28616724 part 3: http://vimeo.com/28617496

actanonverba8 · 2013-01-13T12:32:58+00:00

Here's an interview with Norah Vincent (Howard Stern show):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYF2oOLn70

ipoopgreatness · 2013-01-13T15:22:09+00:00

"I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege."

Bingo.

guy_smieley · 2013-01-14T02:51:49+00:00

The most interesting aspect of this article to me is the variety of responses it draws when it's brought up. By just reviewing the "other discussions" from the previous time this was posted on reddit, you can find quite the variety of responses ranging from supportive to indignant to outright angry. The top post in OneY, for instance, agrees with the findings but is somewhat indignant in that the poster thinks it should have been obvious from the start that many men have feelings of insecurity and isolation just as some women do. In TwoX, however, the top post is largely dismissive of the findings, stating that the whole experiment was "a mess" and labeling the findings "heteronormative crap." While other posters challenged this view within the thread, no other post has as many upvotes as that comment and the next several top-level comments are similarly dismissive in their own ways. It seems that even if this particular experiment fails to please everyone, it points out that the issue isn't well understood by everyone involved and points out the need for more work of this sort, if only for the discussions it starts.

actanonverba8 · 2013-01-13T12:11:31+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I used to have a copy of "Self-Made Man" but I lost it in a move. Good reminder.

ataxiwardance · 2013-01-13T21:47:10+00:00

This is a wonderful article!

JSJMRA · 2013-01-13T21:32:07+00:00

I appreciate the article but I still noticed this:

"I really ran smack up against the difference between male and female sexuality. It's that female sexuality is mental. ... For a man, it's an urge,"

Gotta have something in there that paints women as somehow more "cerebral" than men.

HumanMob · 2013-01-13T20:20:58+00:00

Privileged! hahaha, someone needs to post this in /r/feminism!

2013-01-13T09:54:44+00:00

Ahh, but some of us do not need their sympathy, or love. Which is why the bleating from feminists is increasingly shrill and bitter. If there's one thing women hate more than anything, it's being ignored.

Me and Handjolina enjoy the shit out of life, free of drama for its own sake and hysterical psychotic episodes. Too many women get their ideas on how to behave from the idiots they watch on the boob tube. I'll try to put up with their shit again when I turn fifty. Until then, me and a whole gang of easy going dudes are going to continue treating them like red lights, and running right through 'em.

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