I’m from a country where most men are still entitled to the core and see women’s emancipation as their oppression. Most men in public, workplaces, on the Internet are just… unbearable to be around. I am a very normal person- I understand I’m not the prettiest woman on the planet, but I’m happy with my face and body, and overall I’m just a confident person. I’m robust, outspoken, and stand by what I believe in and feel for. Is that a negative quality? No, it’s not. In fact, it’s praiseworthy. And yet the praise only comes from women. Men get offended. However, every time I reject a guy who possesses some toxicity, he says something along the lines of “what are you so proud of? You aren’t even pretty.” They just prove my decision to be right.
Marital rape was recently (finally) criminalised here (took them long enough), and goddamn were the menfolk bitter! I lost a few friendships with some guys because arguments based on this topic made me realise how potentially abusive they were. As a girl, I realise how dearly it can cost me if I make a bad romantic choice. Which is why, I’m incredibly picky with the guys that I’d end up with in a room alone. And these guys, the very guys who go to great lengths to argue how women aren’t oppressed, not all men and bullshit, accuse me of prejudice and stereotypes, and how unfair it is to date for them because more number of women are becoming headstrong and stubborn. I try to explain that it could mean the difference between life and death to me, and yet they just allege that I make everything political. There have been recent cases of women being abused and murdered by their boyfriends here- extensively publicised cases. And yet, these guys listen to neither logic nor statistics. I’ve had it with these morons. I don’t even post on regular subs anymore because of how notoriously misogynistic most of them are. I had to find subs which are more women oriented or just frequented more by women to just be able to be myself.
A few months ago, I was going through a phase so I joined the r/lonely sub and my oh my is that sub full of bitter, hateful and resentful men. Ironically, they keep complaining how men can’t even emote without being banned from reddit subs anymore. Damn I wish I could just not be attracted to them anymore, because quite frankly, I don’t like them much.
(Sorry if something is amiss. First time poster)