• ZDL@lazysoci.al
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    Even just going with the makeup thing: they’re pure contrarians on that point. If they see someone with makeup they prefer women without it. If they see someone without makeup they prefer “a bit of” makeup.

    Basically the whole makeup thing is purest gaslighting.

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        The big move here is nod along silently to this post, secure in the knowledge that, whether or not the poster you’re contemplating is a dyed-in-the-wool misandrist or merely venting their frustrations with males in general, you are a Cool And Well Adjusted Dude who need not worry if he is One of the All Men or the Not All Men. You, Cool And Well Adjusted Dude, may simply say to yourself “a woman’s lot is hard and many women online bond over commisserating that fact, and indeed they may paint the male sex in a broad brush that is not perhaps fair to all males, but that is their business and I will leave them to it here on the Women’s Spaces online chat community.” Then you go about your day, secure in the knowledge that whether or not anyone even knows or recognizes you for your efforts, you are not one of these Philistine maladjusted males the women likely gripe at. You simply are you, and you are not insecure and do not need to check and ask permission to dwell in the venting spaces of the females, and even if you are not wanted in such places, you realize, you are also not needed.

        Being a man can be whatever you want, but most would agree it most definitely does not involve being a wet blanket and injecting this very tired Not All Men script into every single one of these venting communities.

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      And right away men jump in. Because the poor little dears can’t help themselves: they simply MUST talk when one of those rare “thought” things cross what passes for their mind.