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How does it feel to be
the same sex as Donald Trump?
How does it feel to be
the same sex as Sarah Palin?
How does it feel to be
the same sex as Michelle Bachman?
How does it feel to be the
same sex as anybody you disagree with?
Why does it even matter
whether or not you're the
same gender as somebody else?
I mean, I'm also the same
gender as Abraham Lincoln, Einstein,
and the guy who introduced
chocolate to the Western world.
So what are you even getting
at with this question?
Are you trying to say Donald Trump
is bad, and Donald Trump
is a man, therefore men are bad?
Why do you hate rom-coms?
Or do you just feel like you
need to hate them?
Everybody likes The Notebook,
everybody likes Beyoncé.
It's just a fact.
Men hate romantic comedies
for the same reason you
hate video games with
over-sexualized female characters.
The men in these movies are
always willing to sacrifice
their careers, their dreams,
even their lives to win
the lead females' affection.
Now I don't have any empirical
data to back this up, but
it seems to me that
romantic comedies and
romance movies in general
cause women to have unrealistic
expectations of men and what
love should be like, and these
become the expectations
that men have to live up to,
and it's unfair.
Feminists like to bitch
about poor representation of women
in media intended for men
because they promote body issues
and shit like that
And I agree, to at least, an extent
But it's not any better for men
When we're expected to be Prince Charming,
ready and willing to sacrifice themselves
physically, mentally, and emotionally
And we're called selfish for daring to
have our own desires
or even misogynistic for daring to draw
attention to our own problems.
These movies appeal to the female fantasy
of having a night in shinning armor
swear their entire existence to pleasing
them, and thus reinforce these notions
within their target audience of women
like you that you somehow deserve
to have your boyfriends and husbands
give up everything that makes them
who they are and basically dehumanize
themselves for your pleasure and
devote 100% of their time and energy
to you. The fact that some of you
watching this scoffing at what I
just said only proves my point.
You have fooled yourself into thinking
that I'm somehow the one whose being
selfish when I object to the notion
that men should be expected to cave
into all of your demands, for the sake of
your perverted idealistic conception
of love. And I have no doubts that
some of you will accuse me of being
bitter at some ex girlfriend for saying
that, but I'm not and I will
pre-emptively characterize such an
argument as out cropping of the
very mentality that I'm talking about.
You expect