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Some jokes or comments are simply calling for a person to bring their author down a notch, especially when they are borderline sexist or misogynistic; and they often find what they were calling for.

Some of such instances can be found on ‘The Female Dating Strategy’ subreddit—the only dating subreddit exclusively for women, according to its description. Scroll down to find them on the list below and see for yourself what matters women would like their male counterparts to be aware of or pay attention to.

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    It’s clear to anyone who’s ever spent more than five minutes online that not every comment out there is a positive one or that there might be posts and thoughts shared that could be considered ambiguous at best. Both instances often entail traces—or an entire portion—of misogyny - contempt or prejudice directed specifically at women.

    While clearly not every internet user—male or female—is there to spread hate or negative views towards a certain group of people, such negativity is unfortunately not that rare of an occurrence. According to Statista, negative comments and generally abusive language tops the list of the most common forms of negative prejudice against women online, which is followed by sexist and misogynistic remarks as well as actual threats.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unbelievable that this is how some tax dollars are spent, including, of course, women’s taxes.. 😬

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    According to the Canadian Women’s Foundation, as many as 44% of women aged 16 to 30 are targeted by online hate speech. But be it said type of speech, sexist remarks, or simply unpleasant comments that could have been kept to oneself, some women believe authors of all of the above are worth taking down a notch, and so they often take it upon themselves to do it.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate that one, how about he only picks on you because he likes you…way to teach young girls to put up with abuse

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a horrible feeling. It's a feeling of regret and worthlessness and feeling used and it's just horrible. My best friend for most of middle school... turned out he thought I'd be "easy" (turns out how much he really knew me because most people know I'm Christian and waiting until marriage). I just felt like I'd wasted the last few years of my life.

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    While online comments directed at women focus on all sorts of aspects of their life—from career choices to their bodies, and beyond—some of them work as reminders that females are not always presented with the same rights or responsibilities in life as their male counterparts are, which is something feminists have long been fighting for. According to Pew Research Center’s 2020 data, more than three-in-five women in the US see themselves as feminists.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I spit my drink out with a burst of laughing, and I didn’t even have a drink. Poor sleeping cat had nearly a heart attack!

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One day, if it ever arrives, that a woman calls my boys pert, thank you very much XP

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never seen yours, (and TBH I never really want to, no offense) but I'm sure they're quite pert and bouncy! 😆

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always get annoyed when an author describes the main character... like, four chapters in we discover that the main character has long blond hair... but I've been envisioning her hair as curly and brown. If it's really necessary for the character to have a specific bodily description, do it in the first chapter, or not at all. It's ok to allow the reader to create the character's description in their own mind!

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THIS- is the main reason as a visual explorer I've been drawn away by physical books, but I do like them, it's just- I've already made fully sculpted designs for the characters and THEN you tell me halfway through that they don't look like that at all? It's too hard for me to see them differently or just go on- it sets me off (I'm autistic so small sh!t bugs the hell out of me and I'm highly interested in character design so... You can see why something as silly as this frustrates me so much..)

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, only one demographic really read that trash, and it's not men lmao!

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to subscribe to two Science fiction monthlies, and most of the writers and readers were guys. Seemed to me that many of those writers thought that a sufficient description of a female character was the size and shape of her breasts, and (maybe) her hair length and color.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My new workout goal: Get the physique that a woman woukd write down when parodying bad man writers writing sexy women.

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    There are plenty of female writers out there that write plenty of smutty things about men.

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    Bad romance novels are more often written by other women than by men. Just saying.

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    Pew Research Center’s 2020 survey found that while many women consider themselves feminists, the extent to which they feel the term represents them well seemingly differs depending on age, education, and political views. Younger females with a college degree, representing the Democratic political party are reportedly more likely to say that the term ‘feminist’ describes them very well.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I need a friend like him. As an asexual woman, no matter how oft I tell that I'm not into relationships, especially sexua1 ones, the only male response is "lol you should just try it with me and you will be cured". I'm tired of it. It's not a sickness that is curable by seX. I just want to have friends.

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    People’s views seem to differ not only in regards to how well the term ‘feminist’ describes them, but also in regards to how they see the movement itself. According to said survey from 2020, the majority of people in the US—roughly 64% of them—believe that feminism is empowering, four-in-ten say that it’s inclusive, too; however, nearly as many as the latter find it polarizing, while a third of Americans say it’s outdated.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this isnt exclusively a women-to-men kind of thing. Of course, in this context it speaks volumes about how some women (and men too, but personally ive heard more women facing this issue) face blatant disrespect in relationships, but this can also really just be used as life advice regarding toxic people. Don't be toxic and don't let toxic people in, whether in friendship, relationships (I guess especially this one though, because they'd be closer to you and stuff), or just life! have a lovely day x

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    In addition to women taking down toxic men or showing support for certain feminism-driven ideas, the examples on this list also depict certain expectations—or lack thereof—women have when it comes to men and dating. While some of them are not something extreme or out of the ordinary—a gesture as simple as making plans for the first date can seemingly go a long way—women (especially those with a college degree) reportedly find it more difficult than men to find a partner who would meet their expectations.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Liberated people tend to appear less superficially "happy" because they have freed themselves from the people who force them to perform happiness under oppression.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    is not only for the plans, but for whatever. Also a gift for example. Counts more the effort you putted for the gift that not the gift itself

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never watched it (scary stuff) but I'm so pleased to hear that it has a happy ending.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny how this is also the one type of "realism" that's apparently crucial in fantasy settings as well. There can be dragons, but there can't be a world without creepy depictions of sexual violence.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You mean when you could rape your wife cuz they couldn’t say no

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's always "where was the mother?", never "where was the father"...

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm in the UK and our houses are small. We had a couch delivered a couple of years ago. I told the guys when they arrived to take it in thru the close and bring it in thru the back door. It's wider and there isn't a sharp turn from the front door and into the living room (I had already taken the kitchen door off the hinges for the couch to fit thru). But did they listen? Nope. Half an hour of trying to get it into the living room from the front.....not only did they ding the door frame, but they managed to get it wedged in the stairway and pull up a bit of the carpet. After I told them again about taking it around the back they finally listened to me and spent another half hour getting it back outside. 20 mins later I was sitting on my new couch, seriously pïssed! If my hubs had been home, how much you wanna bet, they would have done what I said immediately!

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We don't need to settle down. We need chocolate and money to pay off student loans and bills and stuff (or so I hear, Im almost 14 so I only really can empathize with the first one)

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yes, I know this. I once told an ex that it was technically r*pe when he didn't stop when I said no. He still blames me today for "calling him a r*pist", which "killed his vibe".

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is true, once I stopped people pleasing, I've lost 'friends' that I realise are actually just really toxic people.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The strip club is not the problem, it's the "last night of freedom" stupidity that is. That means the person saying it sees future with their partner as constricting how they want to live their life. It means they're not happy about their vows. The person who's against them going clearly doesn't trust them, either with cause or without. There's nothing wrong with watching a strip show, but it should never, ever involve touching. And for the record, I've worked strip clubs. Women are worse than the men as an audience, and the male strippers have no way to safely defend themselves as if they touch a woman to stop them the women invariably lie and cry victim.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If anyone told me "no man wants you" I'd just say "well I don't want a man so that's no big loss".

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The reality is that, regardless of how empowering it might hypothetically be in different circumstances, real women in prostitution are for the most part being exploited and abused.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't talk about it with anyone other than my Mom and my therapist, but I've only had one ex... and yet, "the one that got away" for me is a classmate I had a huge crush on, but was too shy to tell him (let alone, you know, do anything). It's been over 20 years, and I still litereally dream of him sometimes.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She was supposed to grovel at his feet and didn’t , now bro is upset that she’s not upset and isn’t fighting for the relationship he didn’t really want in the first place. 🤣 You go, girl!

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Been there, violent partner for 5 years, but if I caused him to be irritated in a fit of standing up for myself I'd GROVEL for forgiveness.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Men get "more desirable" with age because it takes them 40 years to learn how to take a shower and read a book, and unfortunately, though women their age know better, some younger women are impressed by how much they stand out from younger men by seemingly matching the maturity one would expect from the average fetus.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True. Also if it’s not meant a a warning, but the opposite. My guy rarely says the ‘right’ things but his actions speak of love and are louder than words.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how going Dutch was synonymous for being stingy and now more people are like "actually, they got a point"

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Splitting down the middle is for when the totals are very close or for when people share food to the point where the math gets too complicated.

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or if available men are so lonely, they could be given to other available men.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The saddest thing is that probabilly she had to do that to pay her studies

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