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rozap  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to not be a creep

Men are often more overtly creepy, yes. But it seriously bugs me how women often assume interest in normal, mundane conversation. Look, just because I acknowledge you existence doesn't mean I am interested; I'm merely initiating social contact on a basic human level.

Why does this happen? I think partially it can be attributed to sweeping claims that men are a certain way, or women act a certain way. They don't. Things like this are always distilled down into a black and white dichotomy, which is unhealthy for all parties. It propagates prejudice that is then applied to the entire male or female population.

I absolutely disagree that more advice should be given in this format. It convinces a lot of women that no men are to be trusted, and pisses a lot of men off and causes them to not take feminism seriously. Both are unhealthy.