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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How Are We Meant To Know?
That Really Puts It In Perspective
Wholesome
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.
God's Will
Unbelievable that this is how some tax dollars are spent, including, of course, women’s taxes.. 😬
Perfect Way To Deal With Their “Jokes”
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.
The Hypocrisy
This Sh*t Right Here!!
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.
Here’s What A HVM Looks Like In His Own Words, Then Shared By A Guy Friend Who I Know Is A HVM To His Wife
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.
No Lies Told
Animals > Men
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.
All Straight Men
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.
I'd like to add "do you see a book as competition for your time and attention"?
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.
Yeah Yeah I Know The Answer Is Just To Leave, But This Visual Is Hilarious!
They Know!
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
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.
Since When Do I Have To Put In Effort??
Nothing But Truth
The Reality Of Being A Woman Today - And The Fear Of Sexual And Physical Abuse That Comes With It - Is Something That Most Men Will Never Have To Experience
I Thought They Always Said Cat Ladies Were Gonna Die Alone
All Of His Exes Can’t Be The “Crazy” Ones
Geee I Wonder Why
The Discomfort Is Worth It
Violence Against Women In Movies And TV? Oh, It's Just For The Realism Effect!
The "Good Old Days" Weren't Good For Grandma. Now We Know Better- Suffer For What?
This is a common myth that many people still push, but historians have tried correcting. It was not that a woman couldnt open a bank or take a credit card in their own name until 1975, it was that banks and financial institutions had the right to refuse on the basis of sex, not that they were not allowed. Big difference, and yes the law changes were needed because sex discrimination was wrong, but there was nothing LEGALLY prohibiting it. My grandmother had her own bank account in the 1940s and her own credit card in 1960, all under her own name, and that is one example.
My mum got denied in the late seventies, they wanted 'a husband, boyfriend or father' to co sign. I've posted about it here before. That's in NZ, the first country to allow women to voteEdit: so we each have an example. You are right that they could choose to discriminate. Calling it a myth is insulting however to every women discriminated against
Load More Replies...Sooo... my mom just told me the other day that when we moved to Switzerland in 1991 she had to take my dad to the bank bc she wasn't allowed to open an account by herself. 😳 (btw the in the same year the last Kanton was forced by court to let women vote and respect the federal right for women to vote!)
When MARRIED women could open an account. If you were single, you could, and keep it after marriage.
it was just up to the bank before 1974. It didn't necessarily have anything to do with whether you were married or not. Banks were legally allowed to refuse to give you an account (or to give you an account) either way.
Load More Replies...When I started work in the early 80s (UK), you had to get your father or husband or male family member to co-sign for a loan or mortgage. Women could be sacked for getting engaged as it was assumed they would be giving up anyway or having children. Married women had no rights to a permanent work contract and the benefits that went with it, even if they had men reporting to them who had those rights.
Rape, beatings, being the man's property, not getting child support for the children, being cast out by your religious friends. Women have been getting screwed over by men forever.
Fake. In 1974, Congress passed a law prohibiting gender-based discrimination in banking. The largest effect was in mortgage applications; previously, a bank might question why a wife was the one applying for a mortgage when a husband was expected to have the highest salary. The fact that this law was passed in 1974 in no way meant that prior to the law, women couldn't open a bank account in their own name.
I had my own bank account in 1969 as a freshman in college...had to have it to pay my tuition and books.
They lasted because abused women had nowhere to go. It was either stay with their abuser, or starve in the streets/being forced into prostitution.
I am one of those women. I had to fight to get a credit card in my name because I wasn’t married.
When my mother got divorced in 1970, her father had to co-sign for her to get a new bank account.
That applied to married women. Single women could open their own account.
Stuff like that is unbelievable. I am born 1966, and I cannot wrap my head around facts like that.
That statement isn't true though, 1974 was the year the law was passed that ALL banks had to let women open an account. Many women opened their own accounts prior to that, especially in the rural communities. So it just forced the banks that wouldn't do it. In 1839, Mississippi enacted the Married Women’s Property Act, and other independent states followed suit, So when the Married Women's Property Act.FLSA and Equal Pay Act was implemented nationwide -In the 1960s, the Married Women’s Property Act, FLSA, and Equal Pay Act paved the way for women to be fully recognized as individuals in the eyes of the law. As a result, they can open a bank account without their husband’s permission as they have the right to earn, own properties, and enter into contracts. So it is misleading at the least to say it didn't happen until 1975. Just a point of order
Women could not get birth control without their husbands permission. Single women were not allowed birth control.
Not necessarily - depends on your country. I had 'the pill' in the 60's and was not married then.
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Where Is The Lie?
Misogyny At Its Finest. I Chortled
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!
Absolutely The Right Response
If They Want To Scrutinize Your Relationships, Then Scrutinize Theirs
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)
Channeling This Energy Today
Love This
Every One Of My Exes, Though
Being A People Pleaser Is A Major Tenant Of Being A Pickme. Men Will Only Love The 50/50, Sex Supply, And Maid Service, Not You As A Person
This is true, once I stopped people pleasing, I've lost 'friends' that I realise are actually just really toxic people.
Cry Me A River
100%
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.
Yep, Just About What I Expected
The Truth About "The Wall"
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".
Flip That Script And Call A Spade A Spade!
Love Everything About This, People Are Finally Waking Up To It
She Found Out Her Husband Was Cheating At 70 And Kicked Him Out! Found Love Again Are 73. Never Stop Vetting Ladies! Do Not Settle For Less
The Truth About The "Honey Moon Phase"
Thinking About Being Married To Any Of My Exes Fuels My Single Hood
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.
Yessssssss Queen!
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!
Men Calling Women Crazy, For A Justified Reaction, Isn't New. The Fact That So Many Women Are Gaslighted Into Believing It, Is Terrifying
What Power Shift?? Lies Men Tell. Women Get Better With Age
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.
Chris Pratt Continues To Be The Worst
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A few days ago, some girl next to me was playing a video without earbuds, but they were listening quietly so I didn't mind, and it was a guy and a girl reacting to stuff. I remember hearing guy sating: I could never cheat, I'm terrible at lying i'd get caught lol. and my first thought was just: so if you WERE better at lying you WOULD cheat????
so many of these are so ON POINT; some were even funny enough that I had to lol (true life experiences).
I agree with most, but rape is extremely specific, so for you to suggest that an unwanted touch or shaming a person is rape is just ludicrous. It absolutely is not rape.
Load More Replies...A few days ago, some girl next to me was playing a video without earbuds, but they were listening quietly so I didn't mind, and it was a guy and a girl reacting to stuff. I remember hearing guy sating: I could never cheat, I'm terrible at lying i'd get caught lol. and my first thought was just: so if you WERE better at lying you WOULD cheat????
so many of these are so ON POINT; some were even funny enough that I had to lol (true life experiences).
I agree with most, but rape is extremely specific, so for you to suggest that an unwanted touch or shaming a person is rape is just ludicrous. It absolutely is not rape.
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