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"Men are bad at picking up on women's hints." What are your actual thoughts on this sentiment? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Either through memes or comments I keep seeing this sentiment pop-up from time to time. And I'm wondering what your (yes, you) consensus is on it.

I for one am too pessimistic to do anything with potential hints. Like even if there is a good chance I still just don't want to risk it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Women might be pissed when you approach them, and might insult you, but that's about it, unless you actually assault them.

https://muskokatoday.com/2022/05/man-arrested-after-approaching-women-they-say-made-them-feel-uncomfortable-suspicious-fearful/

You were saying? And that’s just one of the first articles in the search results.

Shoo, incels.

Interesting how the first thing you reached for was an ad hominem that is explicitly designed to shut down any conversation by shaming the other person into silence and into compliance with the female supremacist narrative.

Almost as if you had absolutely no viable counter-argument to provide.

Edit: And I am married. 18 years this year, 28 years with the same woman. So I am absolutely ineligible for the incel attribute. I just refuse to ignore uncomfortable facts, and will never bow to anti-reality ideologies.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Married men can (and often are) misogynist pigs. You may not be an incel, but get your facts straight.

Funny you should mention reality. Isolated facts happen, but they're not characteristic of a larger reality that the poor men are oppressed by women. In fact, the opposite oppression exists in a systematic way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_harassment, https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2019001/article/00017-eng.htm

Crybabies. Don't be a creep, and you'll be alright. Open streets are not the right place to pick up women minding their own business. And even if you do it, the worst you're likely to get is an insult, meaningless anecdotes aside, because cops are fucking useless.