This is a absolutely terrible way to think.

PowerWisdomCourage · 2013-03-12T18:29:36+00:00

Yeah, that is moronic.

How about "Rape Culture: The day men start acting the way you treat them."

DavidByron · 2013-03-12T19:15:30+00:00

Wow. Women must be terrified of crossing the road too. After all you just never know if this time is the time you'll get run over by a drunk or something. Women must risk death every day crossing the road and us privileged men know nothing of that TERROR that must daily seize them.

Because apparently unlike men, women never get used to any sort of regular every day activity. Instead they are seized by the same IRRATIONAL TERROR as an infant would be the first time they cross the road. Unlike men's brains, women's brains are defective and they continue to experience social anxiety FOREVER instead of realising it's perfectly safe and normal.

Or is it just feminist brains that can't cope with the real world in this way?

C0CKPUNCHER · 2013-03-12T19:17:47+00:00

So a man who isn't terrified of gay men, is some sort of aberration then? Not the exact opposite?

DavidByron · 2013-03-12T19:18:23+00:00

Or maybe the message here is that all women are like a mildly homophobic man? either way this story makes out women to be either mental cripples or else prejudiced.

nicemod · 2013-03-12T18:22:13+00:00

It is indeed a terrible way to think. I'd suggest posting it to /r/MensRants - which is a place for terrible things.

blackstonesinger · 2013-03-12T22:51:17+00:00

Apparently homophobia hurts women also.

Who knew?

PerniciousOne · 2013-03-13T03:58:51+00:00

Men are the primary victims of violence.

Men typically understand cause and effect. When you mouth off to someone who is more powerful than you, you are likely to get assaulted.

Just because I "may be assaulted" does not mean that I should not be aware of my surroundings and make proper choices to not put myself in dangerous situations.

kez88 · 2013-03-13T04:12:31+00:00

Whilst I agree rape culture and all that is really stupid and belittles male control and all that, putting yourself in a world where literally everyone can overpower you is bound to fuck with you a little bit. Imagine being a scrawny guy in high school where every dude around you can beat you up if they ever wanted to (a harsh reality). I dunno, I can see why some women CAN be scared, albeit irrationally.

YoungZer0 · 2013-03-13T04:22:29+00:00

So they are both paranoid and that makes male shaming okay? O:

2013-03-13T05:01:23+00:00

It is incredibly, incredibly disingenuous to compare waryness of homosexual passes to being hit on by a person of the same sex. If you ever find a woman who is wary of lesbian advances, you've essentially destroyed this argument entirely, unless you're asserting all lesbians are just men in lipstick. But I digress.

Firstly, I'll note that, in general, most men take homosexual passes at them to be flattering.

It seems very unlikely that the boy was terrified that the passenger was going to physically assault him. Even in the story (which is probably false/embsellished for a number of reasons), the girl put words into his mouth.

There are plenty of reasons for a man to find getting hit on by men threatening in the sense that it threatens his psyche, rather than his body. It could be that being put in the position of being hit on at all by a person whom he did not. It may have been an affront to his conception of his masculinity due to the switching of roles by someone who is physically similar/of the same social class, upsetting typical relationship dynamics. He may be dealing with homosexual thoughts himself, and used his disgust as a defense mechanism.

Now, are these sounds and logical? Not really, they're rooted in some type of personal weakness or another. Nevertheless, to use homophobia as analagous to the supposed quaking fear women live in is absurd.

trollwnb · 2013-03-13T08:34:27+00:00

So if a women makes a pass on me i should feel terrified also?

aTypical1 · 2013-03-13T13:44:33+00:00

This statement has so many flaws. First, it assumes homophobia is a male-gendered thing (apparently all the conservative bible-beating women have died off), and that homophobia is a man's natural state.

Second, it basically takes the attitude that male sexuality, hetero or homo, is predatory by default.

Lastly, it's totally co-opting a core LGBT issue (homophobia) and making it about hetero women.

To quote one of the commenters: "As a gay man, I hate this line of thought, it assumes all gays are skeevy flirters and all men are rapists."

Title	This is a absolutely terrible way to think.
Author	olioster
Upvotes	14
Comments	19
Date	March 12, 2013 1:50 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/mensrights/comments/1a5afs/this-is-a-absolutely-terrible-way-to-think/
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